Benigno Aquino III Quotes

For most of my life, I deliberately led a private life in the public eye.

I struggle with deciding when to answer or ignore the constant speculation about my private life, because I feel like that doesn't belong to anybody but me.

I owe 90 per cent of my life to people because I am a public figure, but 10 per cent is private to me. And I am not saying it in a defensive way. I feel my life has been made into a TV serial.

Why should anyone be interested in my life? It's the prurience I find so extraordinary. Why, why, oh why should my private life be of any interest to the public? The only people who should be interested are my friends.

I have to grit my teeth sometimes, knowing I am going to be written about. But I think it is my life, and I don't want to get people interested in debating it. But I do feel that if you are going to put yourself about as a public person on a television screen, there's a curiosity.

The public doesn't want to hear people complaining about having their picture taken.

I may be President of the United States but my personal life is nobody’s damn business

Being in the public eye, you can't really avoid a lot of questions. A lot of questions are being thrown at you, whether it's about your personal life or your personal beliefs, and I'm happy to answer them all.

I've always felt that anyone who wants to talk about my private life is only demonstrating the paucity of his/her imagination when there are so many more important and exciting things to discuss.

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.

People always seem to be interested in my private life because I'm married to a pop star.

I don't want three million people digesting my private life over their cornflakes.

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.

The British press has an insatiable appetite for making public things that should be private. It's a prurience that I've never understood.

My private life is very private, and I have chosen not to live in America or England, where you are so exposed and can't fight against it.

I can't imagine having a real personal thing, like divorce and marriage, all those things, being in the public eye. I try to not talk about anything personal, and then nobody has the fire to throw back at you, like 'You said this back then!'

On a serious level, I wouldn't tell the press if I was in a relationship or not. I wouldn't ever reveal that, because it takes you down a certain road... I have no desire to be courting the press with my love life.

I've chosen not to talk about my really private life to the press - I've never invited a huge amount of attention.

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

I understand why people might be interested. But I just don't talk about my personal life. It's a decision I made a long time ago, before I ever even knew anyone would be interested in my personal life.

I never thought my private life would be newsworthy.

No one's personal life is in the public interest. It's gossip, bottom line. End of story.

Even rock stars are entitled to privacy.

My private life became public.

I hate that tabloid idea of anybody who is famous having to forfeit their privacy.