Ben Mendelsohn Quotes

Abraham Lincoln is the most shut-mouthed man who ever lived. He always tells only enough of his plans and purpose to induce the belief that he had communicated all.

I was very guarded.

The people who are garrulous and wear their heart on their sleeve and tell you everything, that's one kind of person, but the fellow who's hiding behind a tree and hoping you don't see him is the fellow that you'd better find out why.

I would never call myself mysterious. The word I use is 'private.'

I'm guarded; I don't talk much.

Let me begin by saying that I am one of those naturally wary people who considers the verb 'return' a kind of insidious threat.

It wasn't that I was shy to go out with him, I just didn't want people with preconceived notions to assume anything about why we were together. I was pretty careful for a while.

I'm a fairly quiet and private person. So I haven't sought publicity.

I'm a kind of private guy.

I am a chatty person, but colossally discreet.

I'm trying my best to keep my private life guarded. It's not easy at all. Non, non, non.

I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.

I like to keep my personal life private.

I am quite a private person.

I'm kind of a private person in a way.

I try to keep my private life private.

My private history in terms of people in my life who are dead is very easy to discuss. I don't feel those people can be threatened or intruded upon now. But I am enormously protective of the people who are currently in my life, my existing friends and family. That is where the curtain is drawn.

Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious.

Think a lot, say little, and write nothing.

I've always been super-private and protective of certain experiences and certain friends.

I'm naturally a shy, quiet person.

I'm a very secretive person. That's how I grew up. My father was very secretive.

Of course, I like to keep my private life, private.

I'm a private person. I am quiet.

I am such a private person.