James Spader Quotes

I just don't want to talk about my personal life. I feel like it's mine, I'm not trying to promote it. It's nice to have things that are your own, that you value enough that you don't have to use to sell a movie.

I'm not one of those people that goes into details of my personal life on national TV to get attention. Some things are better left unsaid.

Sometimes I like to think it would be nice if you just had a character, and your personal life was your personal life. My life is definitely out there, you know?

As actors we give so much of ourselves away so I like to keep my personal life to myself.

I don't want to expose my personal life. It's best that people know me for my work. My family doesn't want to be surrounded by cameras. We want to live like any other family.

I don't want to broadcast my personal life because I feel it's off-putting.

I want a private life, I truly do. I'm not just pretending to want one like lots of celebrities.

I understand why people might be interested. But I just don't talk about my personal life. It's a decision I made a long time ago, before I ever even knew anyone would be interested in my personal life.

I never aimed to be on television or in the press. We all have a personal life, and being a public figure disrupts that.

I don't really comment on my personal life because I feel like any comment at all is opening up a whole can of worms. I'd just rather not talk about who I'm dating.

I don't think that there's been one example in history where somebody has openly talked about their personal life and it's done them any good.

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.

But I don't want to be out there anymore; I don't want people asking me about my health issues, about my kids. I choose not to be a public paparazzi girl on purpose.

I'm not out there trying to get press for myself nor am I trying to convince anybody that I'm living any kind of a life. I'm actually trying to convince people: I don't want you to know what I'm living, because it's none of your business.

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 wish over the years I had kept my private life private and my professional life a little more professional.

I enjoy having my privacy and not seeing my face on the cover of everything, y'know?

I don't really live my life in the media spotlight. People don't know that much really about me or what I think.

Perhaps the greatest challenge has been trying to keep my time to myself and my private life private in order to do my job. Everything that is most mine belongs to everyone now.

I grew up understanding the pros and cons of what you're getting into and knowing what comes with your job. I like to keep my private life private, and then work is work. I feel so far I've had a really good balance with that.

There is a big difference between what I do onstage and what I do in my private life. I don't put my living room on magazine pages.

My relationship with Salman Khan is too personal to talk about. I take my work like any other regular job, and what I do in my personal life is no one's business. I'd rather let my work do all the talking.

I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.

I owe 90 per cent of my life to people because I am a public figure, but 10 per cent is private to me. And I am not saying it in a defensive way. I feel my life has been made into a TV serial.

The public already knows about me more than I ever wanted it to know.