Jack Dee Quotes

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 think when people sign up for a life of doing something they love to do they should have to sign up for a complete loss of privacy. I understand a little loss of privacy coming with the job.

At the same time that I love meeting people and stuff, I'm a very private person.

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

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

I'm not a hugely social person. Obviously there's a big part of the job that requires that as actors, but it's not the most comfortable for me. I'm a homebody. I don't go out. My life is work and family. There's not a lot in between. That's how I like it.

I am not reclusive. I just have a private life.

I don't attend parties. After the day's shoot, I go home and spend time with my family. I never take my work home, and neither do I involve my family in work.

The personal thing is something I have never talked about. And I never will. That is prohibited. My job is public. But that's it. When you're not working, you don't have an obligation to be public.

My private life has nothing to do with my films.

We keep some distance between ourselves when we're not working. I think that's a really good thing.

I have always kept a pretty healthy separation between my work in my film and my life outside of it.

I'm very - I love talking about games, I love talking about movies and TV shows and love what I do at work. But after work, I don't want to talk to anybody. I'm super private. I stay home.

I don't like to mix my personal and professional life. Both are different, and I don't mix it.

I don't think I will ever cross-contaminate my private life and my family life with my public and professional worlds.

I am very clear about keeping my professional and personal lives separate. I don't want to talk about certain things, and that's the way I am.

I never brought my job to my house, I never brought my house to the job.

I'm a fan of movies and television shows, and I don't expect anything from actors and actresses, or anyone, but good work. What they do. I don't feel like I deserve a piece of their personal life, or even what they think about the work they do.

I've never been the guy who's like, 'I take it home with me.'

I'm really not a party person. I'm in the business of working with 100 people every day, so I don't revel in meeting a roomful of people in my leisure time.

I never really felt free to talk a lot about my family life because I don't want to sacrifice anybody else's privacy. If you look through the archives, you will see, for example, no pictures of my children. That is not because I don't love them. I think I've been a really good dad; at least, I try to be.

In spite of being professionally gregarious, in my nonpaid hours I'm a bit of a hermit. After being around a crew of fifty people for twelve hours a day on a film set, I really like my alone time, and as always, I abhor small talk.

Of course, my motto is still, 'Work is work, private is private.'

I can't work all day and then go home and hang out with the same people. I don't want everything to revolve around the entertainment business. Yes, that's my career, but it's not my life.

I am aloof by nature. I mind my own business. I'm good with everyone, and I get along fine with people. But work is work, and friendship is friendship. I never mix the two.