Wesley Snipes Quotes

There's a way of negotiating how you portray your private life publicly that I've never had the skill to do.

I think it's important to keep things private, and there are certain boundaries I feel very particular about drawing. It may seem fastidious, but my experience of talking to the press is that I need those boundaries to remain very clear.

It's important to hold something back, though, because quite frankly my personal life is pretty dull and I don't want to bore people with it.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

I've chosen not to talk about my really private life to the press - I've never invited a huge amount of attention.

There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into your private life. And there's a distinction between being an actor and being a celebrity. You may become a celebrity through acting, but you don't need to do so.

I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.

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 kind of live a private life. I am out a lot, I have amazing friends and see a lot, so it's not like I'm a hermit. But I just know what I do for a living and that there are certain sensitivities.

As a person, I'm incredibly overfamiliar. I have to be careful what I say!

I don't like to filter myself, but I do it for PR's sake.

I'm not an exhibitionist; I don't have a compulsion to share the ins and outs of my daily life with a public audience.

I do not see my family life in any way, shape, or form as an opportunity for a photo.

The only time the private parts of someone's life are relevant is when they're affecting public performance. And just because someone is a public person doesn't mean that any part of his or her private life is open to scrutiny. If someone is doing his or her job, you have to have enough empathy to understand that we all have personal problems.

Press conferences are good. I have my own philosophy about press conferences. I usually think that when they don't like the movie, they ask about other things.

I can be a show-off at home. But publicly, I have always been a private person. It's not totally my bag to court the press.

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

I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.

I do like to keep my private life to myself. But then again, I don't really get up to much.

I don't ever give my opinion. Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.

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

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

The reason why I've been keeping private for the longest time ever here, I've always wanted to protect my wife's privacy. I don't like - I didn't want to put her picture all over the news. I just wanted to keep her private.

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.

On a serious level, I wouldn't tell the press if I was in a relationship or not. I wouldn't ever reveal that, because it takes you down a certain road... I have no desire to be courting the press with my love life.