Shirley Jackson Quotes

I'm not interested in promoting myself or revealing to total strangers anything about me. That's not my job.

I'm not interested in publicity for myself.

My reputation was a bit exaggerated. Things were written in newspapers, then copied, then doubled. One of the reasons why I never disclaimed that, was because I found it amusing. But I also constructed such an image for myself in order to gain more of a private life.

It's not in either my personal or business interest to be a highly visible person.

I'm not shy, exactly, but I am private. I don't like to talk about myself. I had to learn - I was interviewed for print, radio and even TV.

You are your main news platform, so no publication has as much power as you do about posting about yourself.

An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.

I don't have a Facebook page because I have little interest in hearing myself talk about myself any further than I already do in interviews or putting any more about myself online than there already is.

I don't like to talk about myself that much.

I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about themselves!

My mother loves it when I talk about her. Half the time, I think she says things that she knows will go straight into the act.

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'd rather make all my secrets public than have an image based on gossip. I'd rather put it out there myself and control it.

I come from an academic background. I wasn't raised to be into promoting myself.

I'm not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in it. I don't have any talent for it. I keep my personal life out of my public life as cleanly as I can.

I don't mind being the center of attention as a character but in real life it's not for me.

I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.

I find that talking about myself is often the most boring thing in the world. Sixty per cent of interviews I find mechanical.

With Facebook and Twitter, everyone wants to publicize their innermost truths.

If people want to really know what's up with me then they can read one of my interviews.

I don't know if it's because of the way we grew up - we just don't like talking about ourselves or talking about what we're doing... It's not really our approach.

I have girlfriends in this business who talk about their personal lives, and it works for them, and I love it. But not for me.

I think it's important that people know who you are and... can ask any questions they like about you.

There's almost nothing that hasn't been said about me. But there's an awful lot that I haven't said. I don't talk about private things.

How come actors feel like they have to give some kind of personal revelation attached to the project?