Nina Dobrev Quotes

One of the hardest aspects of this protracted public persona is not knowing others as well as they feel they know me. It's a rather clumsy feeling actually; to not know someone who acts as though you're old friends.

He [Elton John] is pushing his face in all the time and telling us about his private life. Nobody's interested. He should just go away.

Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity.

It's great to have people come out. I do worry, though. They know me very intimately, in a way, if they listen to my show; they know a lot about me.

Obviously you don't want to be anonymous, but you don't want everyone to know your life.

I'm not a big fan of people knowing too much about me.

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

Privacy is big for me. To do interviews even, I have a very love/hate with it.

I think people are used to seeing actors be wide open and desperately giving of themselves, and while I do that on a movie set as much as I can, it's so unnatural for me to do it on television, in interviews, in anything like that. I also don't find that my process as an actor is really anyone else's business.

I started thinking that if post modernism is about people opening up all their skeletons, I'm going the other way. I don't want anyone knowing anything about me anymore.

I'm intensely private, and I've openly shown annoyance at the paparazzi.

I have no interest in writing confessions, in deliberately baring myself to my readers. I prefer to remain behind a screen.

Privacy is important to me. But it's not just about sticking two fingers up and saying I don't want anyone to know my business. It's an artistic choice. I think that for any actor to convince their audience that they have completely inhabited a character requires a certain level of anonymity.

I'm not about to talk about what's romantic in my life - I figure if you talk about it once - then that's an open invitation for everyone to dig into your personal life even further.

I am a private person; I think that's important if you're an actor. But there's a difference between privacy and secrecy, and I'm not a secretive person.

I find it weird that people want to know about you.

I'm not the guy trying to be all up in the videos and be a celebrity. I feel like I'm going to lose a certain amount of my privacy if I do that.

I want to be relatable. I want people to know who I am, but that doesn't mean you get to know everything about me and my life. I think that there's a fine line.

Some people in the public eye are hardline, like, 'We don't share anything about ourselves.' And that's fine.

I think people kind of know me, although I am pretty private when it comes to my private life.

Starting the podcast was an experiment. I wouldn't say I was very private, but I was probably as private as the average person.

Image and privacy are still everything to Jordan, who has rarely if ever let the outside world see or hear the real Michael.

I share a lot of my life with everybody.

Remember, intimacy increases with honesty. Share less to keep people away and more to draw them closer.

...available people are the ones who are dangerous, because they confront us with the possibility of real intimacy.