Respect for Privacy Quotes

The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul.

How can we expect others to keep our secrets if we cannot keep them ourselves?

I don't want anyone to know my business, and that's the way I like it.

Leave the President's family business to him. You will have plenty to do without trying to manage the First Family. They are likely to do fine without your help.

I've learned the hard way how valuable privacy is. And I've learned that there are a lot of things in your life that really benefit from being private. And relationships are one of them.

There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.

It's not considered polite in Russia to count the money in someone else's pocket.

The personal thing is something I have never talked about. And I never will. That is prohibited. My job is public. But that's it. When you're not working, you don't have an obligation to be public.

Tourists came around and looked into our tipis. That those were the homes we choose to live in didn't bother them at all. The untied the door, opened the flap, and barged right in, touching our things, poking through our bedrolls, inspecting everything. It boggles my mind that tourists feel they have the god-given right to intrude everywhere.

I don't take pictures when I'm with my kids, for the sake of my kids. It's important when you're as busy as I am that you give your kids your time when you're with them, and nothing compromises that. I've been lucky enough to have fans that understand that.

I'm one of those people who fiercely guards their privacy, so I hate doing interviews.

I don't mind talking about my two daughters, but I don't feel comfortable denying them their privacy.

I will only speak off the record about Debra Winger.

I don't like hawking 'round other people's memories. That wasn't part of the deal when I was born.

Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?

In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate acquaintance to ask to be allowed to just go in and have a peep, I never admitted anyone.

My private life is private.

I don't think anyone's private life stands up to public scrutiny.

How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?

I don't talk about any of my projects until the production house makes an official announcement.

What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.

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.

If anyone interferes into the private life of two people, I will defend the right of those two people between their four walls. That is no problem.

I've read about myself and my husband and my family, to the point where they've called my parents, they've called my brothers, offering money to tell stories. They call friends of mine. I'd just like for them to just ... don't badger us. Don't scrutinize us. We have children and they have to live, too. It's not fair.

When Chinese get together - what's buried stays buried. We don't even discuss our embarrassing early days struggling in Chicago.