Rex Chapman Quotes

All truths are not to be told.

I think all documentaries leave out areas of people's lives. Which is good. There are areas that need not be explored.

I think the thing I had to be careful about while writing a book was not to say anything that was revealing about other people that they would be uncomfortable with. I didn't want to make people angry - that's a real risk.

Sometimes you just wonder whether people just don't have the sensitivity or decency. I'm a member of the media myself: I host a talk show. I know sometimes when you want to ask something, you can circumvent it with words and vocabulary. You don't suddenly just go out there and ask something directly in the pretense of being absolutely candid.

We would never comment on private correspondence.

I am a very discreet human when it comes to other people.

Some things are not best done in public even though the public is asking for a confrontation.

I really understand that we have to be sensitive to people's feelings and to their sensitivities, but you also can't be muzzled to tell a story.

We don't like offending anyone.

I believe in the First Amendment. But I also believe we should be mindful of how other people feel.

Indiscretion has always seemed to me to be one of the privileges of tact.

I don't feel comfortable talking about my private life, and some people in my private life don't feel comfortable about me talking about it. So I don't.

I don't aim to offend.

For once I want to have a relationship outside the public eye.

The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.

You don't have to tell anybody a damn thing you don't want to.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

It's nothing sinister but my private life belongs to me.

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

I think everybody has the right to a private life.

Women want honesty but sometimes get upset if you are honest, so you need to know when to be honest.

Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent.

The truth is, you can be honest with your friends - but you just can't be honest with the general public if you want to keep your friends.

I would never speak about specifics in my own relationships because I think it's tacky.

So I think it's better to say something than not to say anything at all, even to an ignorant person.