M. J. Rose Quotes

In my father's generation, the product was 80 percent of what you were putting into the world, and your personal life was 20 percent. It now seems that 80 percent of the product I put out is silly, made-up stories and what I'm wearing.

I'm loath to use my personal life to promote what I do, but at the same time, I don't like a journalist going away with no more than you could get off Wikipedia, where most of it's invented anyway.

I never talk about my private life. When you're in this business it becomes so precious. I don't understand when people open up about themselves to the press.

I mean, on the television, I've got to continue to be Star Jones Reynolds. And I enjoy that. But in my real life, I'm a wife now. You can't really be bossy when you're married.

I just did not discuss my personal life, my sexuality with the media. That was my policy.

I don't talk about my personal life with the press.

I have a kind of boring personal life, to the paparazzi anyway, and I don't hang with the cool crowd.

I think when people see photos of you out and about in your personal life, they assume that you've asked for it or that you want that attention, but I don't think anyone in their right mind asks for that kind of thing.

I am a public person and I have my private life. It's important for me that my private life stay private, that what I share with the people is my public personality.

People don't know very much about me. They do not know what really goes on in my private life.

I guess there have been a few questions about my sexuality, and I'd like to quiet any unnecessary rumors that may be out there. While I prefer to keep my personal life private, I hope the fact that I'm gay isn't the most interesting part of me.

Because my life has been so notorious and so bad, it can overshadow my work.

For most of my life, I deliberately led a private life in the public eye.

All I can say is I was a lot more discreet as a candidate than I was in real life. Can I say that? Maybe it's indiscreet to talk about discretion.

I think in terms of me shying away from modelling, I would like to clarify in some way that I was taking a break from many things in my life and obviously what people in the public see is that I'm pulling away from what is more public.

I'm a nice middle-class girl in real life, and I'm a mom and a grandma, and I usually play sweet characters.

The things in my songs are the edited highlights of my life. I don't go seeking out strange sexual experiences every day of the week.

I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life.

I'm standing behind a wall of jokes. You don't know about my personal life, my girlfriends, or what I do when I'm not on the road. There's this guy, this comedian, and this is how he thinks, but people really don't know anything about me.

I was very camera shy. People like hot girls, so I put my music to hot girls and it just became a trend. The whole 'enigmatic artist' thing, I just ran with it. No one could find pictures of me.

I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.

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 only do the press for the work. I don't have a publicist. I don't go to events or self-promote or endorse things or whatever it is people are meant to do in that world.

It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person. Then I meet other writers and realize that they're not.

Fashion's a huge part of my life, but I don't necessarily feel comfortable always talking about clothes on my personal social media.