S. E. Hinton Quotes

For me, it's important to keep a level of anonymity.

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

I'm not one that cares for publicity.

I don't want to be known as somebody that everybody knows about.

There's the part of my life that the public and I share together. And there's the part that's mine to keep for myself. And that's mine. For me.

I wanted a pseudonym partly because I'm quite shy and private. I know that sounds ludicrous, but if I should be lucky enough to make a hit, I wanted to be able to shrug off the mantel of Nick Harkaway when I got home.

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.

Obviously you don't want to be anonymous, but you don't want everyone to know your life.

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

When your life changes and you become a more public person, in some ways you need to be a more closed person, you know?

I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person.

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

I've always tried to be an actor who... I just plod on and try to keep my mouth shut, mind my own business. I find the whole thing about people's lives... I can't understand it. I'm always astonished that people want to know anything about me.

The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet.

I guess I prefer to be quite private. It's a myth that actors are exhibitionists.

I won't share everything, both in my act or in interviews. Some of the people who become the most famous are the most self-revelatory, and I'm like, 'No, it's just not worth it to me.'

People speculate on your personal life all the time anyway. So I just think it's important to keep my private life private and my public persona more into music, you know?

Some people in the public eye are hardline, like, 'We don't share anything about ourselves.' And that's fine.

I think people kind of know me, although I am pretty private when it comes to my private life.

I always look at actresses who I most respect, and they make me think that you can make a choice in life. It's whether or not you choose to go down the route of publicising your personal life. I choose not to.

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

I don't want people talking about me, for good or bad.

I'm not a public person.

I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.

I just have friends that don't sell their pictures to newspapers.