Emotional Privacy Quotes

I just don't like to get intimate. I don't want anyone to know what I feel and what I think, and if they can't get some kind of an idea of what sort of person I am through my music, then that's too bad.

If I talk about my father's funeral, as I did when I was promoting the last novel, 'Being Dead,' I'm not going to tell any lies, but there are certain things I'm not going to tell you, and I'm certainly not going to tell my grief.

People deal with grief in many different ways. And some people in show business parade their relationships around like an accessory, and others like to keep it separate from business and commerce. It's perfectly fine to say, 'I actually don't want to talk about my love because that's not part of the fantasy world I created in commerce.'

I don't speak about my pain. My pain is something that doesn't need to be purged. I want to prevent people from suffering. I don't speak about my suffering. Suffering is something personal and discreet. Also, I know it will never leave me. I don't want it to leave me. It would be a betrayal.

There's a fine line between being private and being ashamed.

We're all grown men, and we all have our ways of handling our problems. I'm not secretive, but I don't really talk about things.

I don't want my work to be an exposure of my feelings.

If you're gonna fall apart, do it in your own bedroom.

I internalise things. My sorrows and joys are private.

I'm very English, and we don't talk about emotions publicly.

Melancholy cannot be clearly proved to others, so it is better to be silent about it.

Everyone tells you it's all right to cry, but not enough people say it's all right if you don't want people to know.

Public lives are lived out on the job and in the marketplace, where certain rules, conventions, laws, and social customs keep most of us in line. Private lives are lived out in the presence of family, friends, and neighbors who must be considered and respected even though the rules and proscriptions are looser than what's allowed in public. But in our secret lives, inside our own heads, almost anything goes.

I think an actor's process should be very personal and private, and sometimes I have thought, 'Oh, please, put it away now.'

Each individual human being has a lot of stuff that nobody knows about. Nobody knows what anybody else is going through at any point in their lives.

There's nowhere in New York to go and have your emotions to yourself. People just look the other way because every day people see someone crying on the subway!

You don't need to explain your dreams. They belong to you.

My personal feelings are my personal feelings. I don't want to express them with anyone except for a very few people. It doesn't do any good. It really doesn't.

Some things are just for private. It's like people thinking I'm cold or this or that. It's unfortunate, but I don't need strangers to know that I'm warm. I don't need strangers to know the real me.

I'm just not very comfortable talking about my emotions on a normal, day-to-day basis.

I get mad. I get sad. I have all those emotions. But I just like to keep them to myself. I don't think my fans need to be bothered with if I'm mad or sad about something. I should just be concerned that they are keeping up with my music or I'm making them happy with my show.

I just don't like talking about my relationships or anything like that, in any reference.

Why would you want to be be counseled in your grief? It's too private.

Secrets of the heart are seldom news.

It's not important to me that everyone knows everything about me or that I reveal all that I am or have.