Mackenzie Davis Quotes

I'd like to keep a bit of my life my own, so I'm not publicizing my whole life on social media and stuff.

I don't really go to YouTube or, especially, participate in Facebook. I just really don't want to know that many people!

I've heard some pretty bad things in my life. I'm just one of those people I've gotten to a point where I don't want to be rude, but if it's uninvited attention from people it's like, "Thank you, but no." I'm going to shut you down right away.

I try to keep my private life kind of private.

I had one girl send me an e-mail saying she wants to go out with me, but it's like a two-pronged deal because she wants to blog the date. And I'm like, No! I don't want to be on a reality show.

I've never been to the websites. It's a lot healthier for me to keep out of the conversations about me.

I'm afraid I'm still trying to find that balance. Especially now that everyone wants a piece of me. I find that I have to become more and more reclusive, and pick and choose when I am public and when I am private.

I just get really defensive as soon as anyone comes near my personal life. I made a decision early on that it's strictly off-limits. No exceptions.

You have to find a way to protect yourself in a certain way from people who are constantly demanding your time.

I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.

There is nothing about me that I wouldn't want anyone to know, but there is a part of me that I do want to keep private and personal just because that is what's going to keep me sane in the long run - making sure people don't know my every move.

The thing is, I live a very public life, and I have to keep things personal, or else I have no personal life. It's very difficult.

I do use social media as a gateway into my personal life, but only to a certain extent. When I don't want to, I pull the blinds down.

I'll read tweets that people will tweet at me from time to time, but I try not to read too much about it, because you just never know what's going to end up influencing you.

As Miss Universe, I made a huge effort to keep at least some areas of my life to myself.

If I'm not in the mood to deal with you, then I just don't deal with you. I look at it like, me not dealing with you could save me a lot of trouble - me forcing myself to deal with you could bring me a lot of trouble. So I just play it by ear.

I don't like people probing into my life, so I reveal as little as possible or lie about it as much as need be so as to give them something to write about.

I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.

There is no privacy in our culture anymore, so I have to try and carve that out for myself, but I'm OK with it.

I don't know... I don't want people to know everything about me.

I like the privacy of my life and I protect it quite vigilantly.

I have been called a nun with a switchblade where my privacy is concerned. I think there's a point where one says, that's for family, that's for me.

I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more people in my life, the more complex it becomes, so I just try to keep it at a minimum.

I'm very, very private; I don't enjoy talking about myself to strangers. Particularly strangers with tapes going.

But I'm glad I'm not one of those actresses who is just so ready to open up for everyone.