Ingrid Bergman Quotes

I understand why people might be interested. But I just don't talk about my personal life. It's a decision I made a long time ago, before I ever even knew anyone would be interested in my personal life.

Sometimes I like to think it would be nice if you just had a character, and your personal life was your personal life. My life is definitely out there, you know?

I've had enough of being public property.

I'm not out there trying to get press for myself nor am I trying to convince anybody that I'm living any kind of a life. I'm actually trying to convince people: I don't want you to know what I'm living, because it's none of your business.

I don't think it's right that everybody knows everything about me.

I just don't want to talk about my personal life. I feel like it's mine, I'm not trying to promote it. It's nice to have things that are your own, that you value enough that you don't have to use to sell a movie.

To have a public life, you still have the right to a private life.

I'm not one of those people that goes into details of my personal life on national TV to get attention. Some things are better left unsaid.

I am a public figure, but there are limits. I have the right to some tranquillity.

As actors we give so much of ourselves away so I like to keep my personal life to myself.

I know that my fans want to know who I'm sleeping with, but it's really none of their business.

I want to protect my life. I don't want my life to become a reality show.

I have never indulged our society's misguided notion that my personal life is relevant to my work, so any reporting surrounding that is necessarily hearsay, speculation or fantasy.

My private life... Nobody should care. I think it's weird.

When people talk about my business, my life, I'm really private. Maybe someone thinks I'm arrogant or something, but it's just me.

Being a public person doesn't necessarily mean you're a piece of meat for everybody.

You know, motherhood is my favourite topic in my personal life and I won't shut up about it, but it's not something I want to discuss publicly just because of the amount of attention it draws to a small person who didn't choose to be exposed.

I don't want to have anything to do with that: just the fame without personal respect for your privacy.

I can handle rumors about me. But I don't like things being written about my wife and my family. They don't need to pay a price for me being a star.

New Yorkers are tired of hearing about my personal life.

I prefer my friends and family not to watch anything I do.

I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me.

But I don't want to be out there anymore; I don't want people asking me about my health issues, about my kids. I choose not to be a public paparazzi girl on purpose.

I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.

I wish over the years I had kept my private life private and my professional life a little more professional.