Doris Kearns Goodwin Quotes

As an actor you have total rights to privacy and mystery, whatever your sexuality, whatever you do. I don't see why that has to be something you discuss openly because you do something in the public eye. I have no understanding of why we turn actors into celebrities.

I never feel that far away from the tabloids.

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

Can public men have private lives?

For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance.

I don't want three million people digesting my private life over their cornflakes.

I know that my fans want to know who I'm sleeping with, but it's really none of their business.

God, I hate interviews with actors pouncing on. Who wants to know about their lives? I don't want to know about Al Pacino's life.

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

I hate that tabloid idea of anybody who is famous having to forfeit their privacy.

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.

If you're a public figure, people have the right to speculate and gossip.

In some ways, I always thought you're better off behaving like a rock star when you're a normal person. Because if you do it as a rock star, you'll end up in the papers and your life will be made a misery.

I may be President of the United States but my personal life is nobody’s damn business

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

All this focus on my private life is the most unappealing aspect of being an actor. I don't like it, but it goes with the territory, and I have to put up with it. I certainly don't set out to attract attention.

She taught me I should never do anything in private I did not want talked about in public, and cautioned me not to talk in my sleep.

All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.

When you're so out there in the public eye, people are constantly criticizing every aspect about you.

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.

I don't think anyone has the right to intrude in your life, but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman.

I'd never go on a reality show - it's too invasive.

It's so great to have your private relationships play out in the press.

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.