Kevin Hassett Quotes

I'm raising a child, and it's public. The media creates these dramas, and that's not what's happening in my life.

Photographers and reporters are mostly after me. They want to know what I read and what I'm like and I don't really know myself, so how can I tell them?

I wish we could go back to the time when the private lives of our public figures were relevant only if they directly affected their public responsibilities.

I don't really live my life in the media spotlight. People don't know that much really about me or what I think.

We all have a past; it's just that my past is out there for all to see.

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.

I know I have a reputation that is not so flattering, but I guess I owe it to just being a private person. I don't mean anyone harm, and I'm not being mean. I just don't socialise much; I don't party too much. I don't know what to say to the media if I'm not talking about a film that I am doing, so yeah, maybe I am perceived as a snob.

I'll tell you one thing about me: I'm very private. I always have been private. People think I'm callous, arrogant. I didn't like the media attention.

I don't have anything to hide but what happens is the media tend to beat up what I say.

My life isn't tabloid-friendly.

I don't think I'm portrayed in the media the way I really am - but then who is?

When you see me on TV, that's about as close to my real personality as you can get.

Looking at the Obamas, they have a lot to manage with their children and having Michelle go out and have everybody comment on what she was wearing, what it means. I think you have to create a pretty large private world to live in.

Once you become the story off-screen, you are less likely to be the onscreen one.

People in D.C. are so psyched when anyone dramatizes them in an exciting way. They're a lot more open to looking at the nastier side of themselves than the media is.

For most of my life, I deliberately led a private life in the public eye.

It is hard to manage a personal life when everything you do is amplified in the public media.

I may be President of the United States but my personal life is nobody’s damn business

I think a life of a human being is not something you can explain in a few interview questions. The stuff you do in the media is sometimes a great reflection and sometimes not a great reflection of who you are as a person.

Having a reality TV show, everyone feels like they know you, but that's only 10% of my life. There's a whole other side of me that people don't see.

In the world's eyes, what they know of me is from the blogs. What they know is from the media.

I don't think I even have a clear perspective of how I'm depicted in the media.

The first time I ever experienced someone hating something I did on television was on 'Boy Meets World.' I remember these kids coming up to me and calling me a 'home-wrecker,' and so I had flashes of that going into my role on 'Mad Men.'

I don't want people paying too much attention about what I am outside of football, what I'm doing, and asking: 'Who is N'Golo?'

No one really has any idea about me. To me, what I give you is what happens onscreen, and past that, anything you're coming up with in your own head, you're creating in your own mind.