Michael Scott Quotes

In real life, I try to be honest but not overshare. There are people that turn every conversation into a therapy session and you want to start charging them.

Sometimes, I tell them more than they wanted to know.

No one cares what you ate for breakfast. Unless it's something really spectacular, don't tweet me your breakfast, I don't care.

The only thing I worry about over-sharing is boring people.

The fact that oversharing exists at all as a noteworthy notion is a relief, because I'm afraid that our younger generations could grow up having no idea what it even means to overshare.

In our age of over-sharing, we know everything about everyone else, robbing them of mystery and thus of power.

I like sharing stuff with people. I feel like it's kind of at their own discretion, you can see too much if you want to see too much.

There is no etiquette rule that decrees one must give out personal information to anyone who asks.

It was never in my dreams to make my personal life anybody else's business.

I don't think people need to know what colour socks I'm wearing today; I don't think people need to know what shower gel I'm using. There's too much information in the world, and there's no magic or mystery anymore.

Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.

I don't think it's right that everybody knows everything about me.

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

Relationships or not, I believe that people don't need to know about my life beyond a certain point.

I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm?

I feel like the quality of privacy and respect of people's personal space has been completely disintegrated. You can ask to take the picture. I will be so glad to take the picture and pose and look good for the picture.

I would never ever talk about my own personal life in an interview.

The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.

It's interesting to see how other people react to an oversharer.

People seem to see no difference between an intimate conversation and a conversation at the water cooler.

There's nothing risky in talking about your personal life. People do it all the time.

I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene.

I really don't like the idea of people knowing what I am doing. I find telling everybody what you had for breakfast is really uninspiring.

You can ask me pretty much anything. There'll be things I'll go, 'That feels a little too personal.' But most things I don't have a fear of being asked about.

With everybody having a Facebook and a Twitter, I feel like regular people consider themselves stars. It's a live, real-time upload of every time we buy a pair of socks, the most telling sign that we're losing our politeness. When you know everything about somebody, you can talk to them any way you please.