Iris Apfel Quotes

I am not too open of a person. I don't really understand why someone holding a notepad and pen thinks he can ask me anything and then is offended when I don't answer.

I don't like questions that delve into my personal life.

I don't believe he had a responsibility to even answer that question - you have no responsibility to answer personal questions that people have no right to ask you.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

Here we have been sitting down for a brief moment and you are already asking me if there are pictures of me in my drawers.

I find it weird that people want to know about you.

You learn a lot about people when you're sitting on their bathroom floor or on their toilet seat, rifling through their stuff.

It was never in my dreams to make my personal life anybody else's business.

I don't want people poking around in my private stuff. They've no business in it. My work is what I give to people, that's my job, and that's where it stops.

Don't get in my personal life.

I've always declined to speak about things I don't think are anybody's business, and what I always get from the interviewers is, 'Well, you know, we have to ask those things.' I say, 'Well, maybe you do, but I don't have to answer them.'

I get to be the nosiest friend or acquaintance that anyone has because it's - my job is to ask you about your dating life all the time.

I don't like people cleaning my room.

People do want to know the personal things. How far is too far to go with personal lives?

I don't like having my space invaded.

I have no interest in anybody's life that way so it defeats me why people go to that length to pry.

I don't like being a voyeur, looking into other people's marriages.

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

When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.

Asking questions about why I don't want kids is really none of your business, but at least it's a dialogue.

I understand people are curious, but it doesn't matter. My personal life is my personal life.

I don't know why other people are concerned about other people's lives that much.

I don't really want to be in the business of observing conversations.

I don't mind being recognised, as long as people are nice. I do like meeting people; it's just that some people are a bit disrespectful... Sometimes it's like, I'm having a roast dinner, and someone's taking a picture of me. I don't mind taking pictures, but just ask. Otherwise, it's a bit weird.

I know that when people ask me about my boyfriend, they're not disrespectful but just curious.