Joe Hill Quotes

Once you expose your private life, if you give one little bit, the floodgates are open and everyone's got a free range for you.

The Orwellian vision was about state-sponsored surveillance. Now it's not just the state, it's your nosy neighbor, your ex-spouse and people who want to spam you.

Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.

My private life became public.

I think we live in a culture where it is really difficult to get privacy because everything is so accessible. It's very difficult to maintain your comfortable life with a sort of mystique.

I'm quite shy, so I hate seeing my private life splashed over the papers.

It is kinda strange when people know exactly where I've been because they saw it in the newspaper. But this is the culture we live in now, where people are interested in what you're doing on holiday, so we have to just basically accept it.

Suddenly, it's all too much. Bryn and the bump watch. Vanessa with my high school yearbook. The idea that nothing's sacred. Everything's fodder. That my life belongs to anyone but me.

You make a choice to make music or be an actor, and people automatically think they can have access to your life.

As mayor, I got used to the fact that when you walked out of the house in the morning to pick up the newspaper in your boxers, there could be a camera there.

I can't imagine dating someone famous. I try to stay away from that as much as I can.

Being followed is weird, that people want to discuss where I ate lunch or what I wear when I go to lunch... the private life is just gone.

I spent my whole life avoiding the public eye. At these food shows, I'm open quarry again.

If we want to live freely and privately in the interconnected world of the twenty-first century - and surely we do - perhaps above all we need a revival of the small-town civility of the nineteenth century. Manners, not devices: sometimes it's just better not to ask, and better not to look.

The more of your private life you put into the public domain, the smaller your private life becomes.

I stared at the television in shock, watching as my private life was revealed to the world.

I really hate people who feel their private lives should be paraded, and there are magazines like 'Hello!,' 'OK' and 'Bella' totally devoted to this.

You become a celebrity, not because of your work or what you do, but because you have no privacy.

I think some people think that being on television makes you a sitting duck, but you have the right to remain private.

People know everything about everybody now.

I feel like I have just become public property.

We’ve lost the line between public and private.

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

I get uncomfortable and kind of scared sometimes of certain public situations because, since I've been on TV or I've appeared in some films, people think this boundary between us has been removed, and I owe them something.

I think people should be protected from being made to feel that they want to know what somebody famous had for breakfast.