Ian Caldwell Quotes

I think you can decide how much of yourself you're willing to make public.

I'm pretty private as a person - people generally think they know more about me than they do, because I gregariously advertise what I want known. So it pains me to think people might feel they have an insight into my personal matters, which they most certainly do not.

My life is pretty much an open book.

The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what you "know" about me is only what I allowed you to know about me.

I try to be authentic - but at the same time I don't really want people prying into my personal life.

I think fame is harder when people have something to hide, but I'm very comfortable, and have nothing to hide.

I'm trying to keep my personal life personal. It's very hard for me because I'm a very honest person.

It doesn't bother me to talk about my private life, it doesn't bother me to talk about anything. My life is like a glass of water, transparent.

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 find sharing intimate details with people that you don't know an interesting concept. I like to keep some things to myself.

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

I'm just not a private person. It's not like I do things because I want things to be public; it's just that's my way of expressing myself, and I happen to be very famous.

Interviews don't go to the core of my life. Everybody knows my life - it's an open book.

I'd like people to get a sense of who I am, yet I want to keep my privacy, too.

I'm not interested in promoting myself or revealing to total strangers anything about me. That's not my job.

I've never been much for self-revelation. In two decades of public life, I always approached the limelight with extreme caution. Not that I kept my personal life off-limits; rather, the personal life I put on display was a blend of fact and fiction.

I am a very private person. No one ever knows anything about me as I don't think it is necessary. I tell people as much as I want them to know about me.

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've grown up knowing that you put as much of your private life out there as you feel comfortable with.

If people want to really know what's up with me then they can read one of my interviews.

I don't hide anything about myself, so I don't find it difficult to talk about things that happen in my life... But at the same time, I don't like putting myself out there too much. That's how I am.

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 think it's important that people know who you are and... can ask any questions they like about you.

My life is an open book. You're welcome to speculate.

As much as I can, I like to curate the information the people know personally about me.