Joey Soloway Quotes

However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself. Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.

I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more people in my life, the more complex it becomes, so I just try to keep it at a minimum.

There is a need for aloneness, which I don't think most people realise for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like sort of a chunk of you.

I don't talk to anybody about my personal life, and maybe that perpetuates it, too. But it's really important to own what you want to own and keep it to yourself.

I just get really defensive as soon as anyone comes near my personal life. I made a decision early on that it's strictly off-limits. No exceptions.

I'm a private person. And I have a certain way in which I protect myself. I don't openly wear my feelings.

You have to find a way to protect yourself in a certain way from people who are constantly demanding your time.

I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.

I usually don't read things written about me and I certainly don't read things if they are inappropriate.

I'm at my best when there's distance between me and a man.

It's not important to me that everyone knows everything about me or that I reveal all that I am or have.

I do use social media as a gateway into my personal life, but only to a certain extent. When I don't want to, I pull the blinds down.

As Miss Universe, I made a huge effort to keep at least some areas of my life to myself.

I have a boundary problem... I need to know when to give and when to back up. I'll help someone across the street and then into their homes and they'll start telling me all their problems... and it turns out they're insane and want to kill me. I've got to know when to stop!

If I'm not in the mood to deal with you, then I just don't deal with you. I look at it like, me not dealing with you could save me a lot of trouble - me forcing myself to deal with you could bring me a lot of trouble. So I just play it by ear.

I've heard some pretty bad things in my life. I'm just one of those people I've gotten to a point where I don't want to be rude, but if it's uninvited attention from people it's like, "Thank you, but no." I'm going to shut you down right away.

I'm always down to chill with people. I'm so happy to have a conversation. But, yeah, I feel like if you're always exposing yourself, if you're always engaging with social media, then you no longer have the right to say no. And I want to retain that right, for as long as I can.

The less I give of myself to the public, the less I can be hurt.

She maintained a careful balance by her window, never allowing the men to come too close, never allowing them to stray too far.

Every woman needs secrets,' her mother said with a smile then, her eyes meeting Sally's in the rearview mirror. 'Remember that when you're old like me, pumpkin, because the world has a way of making a woman's life everyone else's business--you have to dig out a little place that's only yours.

I want to make it a little inconvenient for everybody to get to me.

You need space to try things and create. It takes a long time to recalibrate if you let people pull at you all the time. A lot of stress comes from reacting to stuff. You have to keep a certain guard [up], if you're a creative person.

The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands

So I place my heart under lock and key, to take some time to look after me. But when I turn around you're standing there.

How can I keep my soul in me, so that it doesn't touch your soul? How can I raise it high enough, past you, to other things?