Thandie Newton Quotes

I am not sure precisely why we need to have privacy, but everyone knows for sure that we need to relax and not have to put on our social, outwardly looking face all of the time.

The only time the private parts of someone's life are relevant is when they're affecting public performance. And just because someone is a public person doesn't mean that any part of his or her private life is open to scrutiny. If someone is doing his or her job, you have to have enough empathy to understand that we all have personal problems.

Beauty of mind creates freedom. Freedom of mind creates beauty.

I would never sign up to film my personal life.

I am a private human.

Perhaps the greatest challenge has been trying to keep my time to myself and my private life private in order to do my job. Everything that is most mine belongs to everyone now.

There is a need for aloneness, which I don't think most people realise for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like sort of a chunk of you.

I want not, that everybody hears about. Then I can't longer be myself.

I loved the time I got to spend in Denver. My boys, Arin and Ryan, were growing up. I got to spend time with them without being pried upon. There was no public scrutiny. I was free and could take them to the supermarket or to the park without being noticed or looked at.

Sometimes, when you are in the public eye, you just really need to just be part of the crowd, and look at other people rather than other people look at you.

I don't really want to find myself face-to-face with 10,000 paparazzi. I just want to be comfortable.

I wasn't interested in having to live with a camera - I have a hard enough time getting along with myself. I don't need cameras around and all that action.

In Majorca, I can be myself. I go to the supermarket and the cinema, and I am just Rafa. Everyone knows me, and it is no big deal. I can go all day - no photographs.

All persons have the right to privacy and to intimacy.

Privacy matters. Privacy allows us to determine who we are and what we want to be.

I don't like this instinct of reality television to wear your lifestyle in public. I've really always loved the anonymity of things.

I love to sit on my own and think, not to be photographed all the time.

I don't like people seeing how I behave, walk, eat, and stay.

I'm not very comfortable about the audience getting a peek into my personal life. I like to keep my personal space.

There are tribes in Africa who believe that a camera steals a little part of your soul, and in a way, I think that's true about living your private life in public. It takes something away from your relationships; it cheapens them.

For me, because my life is so public, I just like to be alone sometimes in my private house and enjoy my time.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

Please let us not interfere with the other's work or play, nor let the world see our private joys or disagreements. In this connection I may have to keep some place where I can go to be myself, now and then, for I cannot guarantee to endure at all times the confinements of even an attractive cage.

I think it's very useful to be insulated from your surrounds, because it gives you your inviolate privacy, without pressures, so that you can just be yourself.

I don't have that addictive, "What's going on?" feeling anymore, thank god.