W. H. Auden Quotes

Creatively, I'm not one to advocate people knowing every little nuance about you sometimes.

I'm not one for a public display of my life.

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

I won't share everything, both in my act or in interviews. Some of the people who become the most famous are the most self-revelatory, and I'm like, 'No, it's just not worth it to me.'

I've learned to keep a lot of stuff to myself.

But in my book, it was basically bad taste to stare at someone's assets, no matter how much on display they were.

Cautiously avoid speaking of the domestic affairs either of yourself, or of other people. Yours are nothing to them but tedious gossip; and theirs are nothing to you.

I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.

I don't want to be known as somebody that everybody knows about.

Me, myself, personally, I like to keep myself private. I have never said I am a paragon of virtue, a model of morality. I simply do what I do.

I just have friends that don't sell their pictures to newspapers.

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.

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

I have chosen to keep my personal life separate from my music, as the two are exclusive from each other, and I want to remain that way. I'll talk music, production, writing songs, touring with anyone but keep religion, politics and world affairs off the table, as my expertise is in songs and music.

I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.

I don't mean to be highfalutin about it, but I try to limit my visibility.

I'm very, very private; I don't enjoy talking about myself to strangers. Particularly strangers with tapes going.

In my industry, everybody wants to know everything about you, and it's just dumb. I think the only way of maintaining some of that mystique is by not giving away too much about yourself. It has served me well so far. I never want to feel up for grabs.

I'm ridiculous in my oversharing; my mom and sister are very open but a little more judicious than me... and my father is a decidedly private person.

People do want to know the personal things. How far is too far to go with personal lives?

I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.

There are things I've done in the past I'm not proud of - and I could talk about them if I wanted to - but I don't reveal my secrets... I prefer certain things to remain personal; there have to be boundaries. And I don't think you need a scandal to have an interesting story.

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 think behind closed doors people behave differently no matter what period we're looking at, because people have to stand up straight in public but can slouch behind closed doors - can you imagine wearing those corsets?

Look, some people talk about their personal lives a lot; I try not to, unless it's more of a generality.