Patricia Highsmith Quotes

In a perfect world, I would never do any interviews, and probably there would be one photo out there of me, and that would be it.

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

I made a rule not to be on reality shows.

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.'

I hate getting my photograph taken; just because I'm a musician doesn't mean I should have to sell my soul and have pictures of myself on stage with a red face and sweaty armpits plastered over 'Heat!' every week. I'm not a model.

I have to talk about my movies. I have to give interviews to promote what I'm doing. But no one really knows my personal life. And if you don't have a personal life I feel bad for you.

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

As an actor you accept that you have to publicise what you do, but as for the whole personal life thing that people sometimes choose, no, that's not for me.

In terms of publicity and interviews, well, it's really hard in this modern world to keep a sense of mystery.

I wish we could go back to the time when the private lives of our public figures were relevant only if they directly affected their public responsibilities.

I used to do a lot of interviews in the early '80s, when my career started, but it came to a point when I decided I didn't want to talk anymore, and people kind of understood that and left me alone.

I can be a show-off at home. But publicly, I have always been a private person. It's not totally my bag to court the press.

There's an inordinate amount of attention put on actors. Some people want to make their lives public, but that doesn't mean everybody does.

I think people are used to seeing actors be wide open and desperately giving of themselves, and while I do that on a movie set as much as I can, it's so unnatural for me to do it on television, in interviews, in anything like that. I also don't find that my process as an actor is really anyone else's business.

Now I feel I have an unspoken deal with the paparazzi: 'I won't do anything publicly interesting if you agree not to follow me.'

I've chosen not to talk about my really private life to the press - I've never invited a huge amount of attention.

I never talk to tabloids.

I'm very confident in my sexuality, and I really don't like talking about my romantic life in the press.

I think if you do a lot of interviews, you're laying yourself open. If you put yourself out, accept every invitation to every premiere, then you can't really complain when people knock on your front door and photograph you in the street.

I'm intensely private, and I've openly shown annoyance at the paparazzi.

I tend to avoid things like award shows and panels and interviews, not remotely because I feel I'm above them or wish to cultivate the image of the intriguing recluse. I'm just not very good at them.

I'm not someone who likes to be in the whole Hollywood tabloids.

I'm not intensely private - I talk a great deal about my life and my work - I just don't play the game to excess.

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.

I'm not on Facebook. I'm not on Twitter. I know a lot of celebrities who go around complaining how little privacy they have. And then my question to that is always, 'Well, how much of yourself are you putting out there?'