Calista Flockhart Quotes

Bodyguards offer fake security. The real security comes from having your enemies know nothing about you.

Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.

If my friends don’t know what my plans are, then my enemies will not.

I don't want people to know who I am.

I've always retained my privacy, but now I protect it even more.

I've always been really interested in secrets - how people find ways of doing things without telling anyone else in order to keep themselves feeling safe in the world.

Obviously you don't want to be anonymous, but you don't want everyone to know your life.

Anonymity would be a fantastic umbrella. I don't like intrusion.

But anonymity is very important to me, and I don't want to be recognized in public more than I already am.

Of course, a secret is no good if it doesn't need to be a secret.

Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions.

When your life changes and you become a more public person, in some ways you need to be a more closed person, you know?

I don't tell many people my last name.

I definitely keep myself secret.

They can't find my house now because I keep it very quiet where I live.

For me, it's important to keep a level of anonymity.

The best way to keep a secret is to never have it.

My agents have me in the Actors' Protection Program. It seems to be working very well. Nobody can find me.

Obscurity often brings safety.

My anonymity is something I treasure.

I'm not a big fan of people knowing too much about me.

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.

No one will die if they don't know how old I am.

When I wrote 'Before The Dawn,' I made it quite clear that there are lots of people involved in my life who I can't talk about simply because I'd put them at risk.

We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect.