Dianne Feinstein Quotes

You can't always say what you'd like to say.

No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.

Political correctness is a bit like a granny, a maiden aunt arriving at a party when everyone's having a good time. And she comes in, they all start sort of buttoning up and becoming self-conscious and behaving properly and then when she leaves, you can have fun again.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

I really have to edit myself - I need someone with a censor button around me all the time. I'm just a little unaware of what's deemed appropriate.

The reason so many celebrities try to keep things secret is you want the chance to get to know someone without the glare of public scrutiny.

Because there's so much stuff I don't release.

Don't you dare print my first name. That would make me sound like a real country girl.

What we say privately we say publicly.

… it is at home and not in public that one should wash ones dirty linen.

Things have happened, having to do with many things including political correctness, where people are so worried about being politically correct that they are unable to function.

The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.

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.

We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.

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

Actors should avoid talking about their personal lives.

It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.

You know me, I'm not that kind of person that cares to unveil all of my personal things to the world because frankly, in terms of my soccer, it doesn't matter.

It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all.

I can, of course, think what I want, just like everyone else. I simply have to refrain from saying everything I think.

It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.

You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they're going to write in whatever clever manner they desire.

Being Politically Correct means always having to say you're sorry.

The Academy is paranoid about its image.

The funniest thing is I never understood why actors were so shady about who they're dating. Then I realized the things you say get printed and the people you're involved with read them. That's what's tricky. Nothing goes unnoticed. I don't want to get myself in trouble!