Lena Dunham Quotes

I've always been able to keep my private life separate from my business.

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

The only time the private parts of someone's life are relevant is when they're affecting public performance. And just because someone is a public person doesn't mean that any part of his or her private life is open to scrutiny. If someone is doing his or her job, you have to have enough empathy to understand that we all have personal problems.

I try to keep my private life private and the acting stuff separate.

My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.

Your private life is your private life and you keep it to yourself. You get more respect that way.

I like the privacy of my life and I protect it quite vigilantly.

In my career as an actress, I have never got involved with anybody from the world of films. I have always kept my professional and personal life separate, as that's my policy.

I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.

I grew up understanding the pros and cons of what you're getting into and knowing what comes with your job. I like to keep my private life private, and then work is work. I feel so far I've had a really good balance with that.

My relationship with Salman Khan is too personal to talk about. I take my work like any other regular job, and what I do in my personal life is no one's business. I'd rather let my work do all the talking.

I've been trying to keep the private life private. Not being savvy or trained on how to do good interviews like a politician, I thought it was wiser to follow my mother's advice: If you have nothing good to say, don't say anything at all.

I don't want to broadcast my personal life because I feel it's off-putting.

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

I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.

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.

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.

Keeping your private life as private as possible is the smartest thing.

I think, in our life I think that when you are an actor, when you are a producer, you have to be very discreet about your personal life, and you have to be closed in, in harmony and in affection and in everything.

I'm not eager at all to present my life out there for public consumption. I like to do one or two films a year and then do what is absolutely obligatory in terms of promoting them. My life outside of films is vital to me.

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.

Both my husband and I give a lot of ourselves in what we do because that is our public lives; but in my private life, I have an intrinsic right to be left alone.

I thought, I'm out in my life, that doesn't involve my public life.

When I'm not acting, I like to go home and be really normal. So I usually grow out my hair until I get the next part.

Everything about my life is private, really. I'm not so sure that any of it has ever been public.