Public Separation Quotes

I thought, I'm out in my life, that doesn't involve my public life.

There's nothing like privacy. You know, I like people. It's nice that they might like my books and all that...but I'm not the book, see? I'm the guy who wrote it, but I don't want them to come up and throw roses on me or anything. I want them to let me breathe.

I think I've preserved most of my private life, and I think that's still important for me, and that's still important for my family.

A poet is not a public figure. A poet should be read and not seen.

I've learned to keep my work on the stage or on the screen.

I mean, there's a little bit that gets out, but for the most part, the thing that makes us work, and makes our family successful, and our life successful, is when we walk home and we walk into our doors of our house, all that other stuff is left outside. It's not a factor.

The act of creation, as you very well know, is a lonely and private matter and has nothing to do with the public area... the performance of the work one creates.

For me, my business is my business and my house is my house. I don't want the public in my house.

I'm not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in it. I don't have any talent for it. I keep my personal life out of my public life as cleanly as I can.

But for me, my personal relations, my personal family relations, are very important, and we've always tried to make sure that the public and the private are kept separate.

We are very private, so we decided from early on that we will keep the press and editors and everybody out of our house.

I think having my life be as private and quiet as possible is a way in which then I can go and play characters.