Private Life Quotes

‘I don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.’ – Banksy

‘The more of your private life you put into the public domain, the smaller your private life becomes.’ – Kevin McCloud

‘Keeping your private life as private as possible is the smartest thing.’ – Kate Mara

‘It’s called a private life for a reason – it’s mine, and it’s special and sacred.’ – Lili Reinhart

‘I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody’s damned business.’ – Chester A. Arthur

‘I am not reclusive. I just have a private life.’ – Enya

‘My private life is my own business.’ – Roddy Llewellyn

‘Your private life is your private life and you keep it to yourself. You get more respect that way.’ – Jay Kay

‘Once you expose your private life, if you give one little bit, the floodgates are open and everyone’s got a free range for you.’ – Jason Statham

‘No man should be in public office who can’t make more money in private life.’ – Thomas Dewey

‘I’ve always been a private person, and I’ve always valued my private life.’ – Amber Heard

‘Celebrity damages private life.’ – Tim Berners-Lee

‘There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.’ – George Eliot

‘I do not recognize the right of the public to break in the front door of a man’s private life in order to satisfy the gaze of the curious… I do not think it right to dissect living men even for the advancement of science. So far as I am concerned, I prefer a post mortem examination to vivisection without anaesthetics.’ – Alexander Graham Bell

‘My private life is perfect. If your private life and your life outside football is good, then it is good on the field for you.’ – David Beckham

‘May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best – out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters.’ – May Sarton

‘People assume that a self-portrait is narcissistic and you’re trying to reveal something about yourself: fantasies or autobiographical information. In fact, none of my work is about me or my private life.’ – Cindy Sherman

‘I just wanted to have a private life.’ – Sia

‘There is no time and space in the digital world. People chat and collaborate through social networks. Cultural icons garner millions of fans online in locations they have often never been themselves. The boundary between public and private life is now everyone’s business.’ – Eduardo Paes

‘Not having a private life is hard.’ – Amber Riley

‘I found myself getting more publicly shy when the gala events and big crowds started. Some people embrace it. To me, it’s not worth enough to risk my private life being public.’ – Matt Damon

‘The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with less time to spend on his private life, his inner life, and I thought this might be a way of getting at that.’ – David Herbert Donald

‘I have practically no private life. I’m already used to this and ready for it. Yes, sometimes it is hard, but it is the choice I made.’ – Cristiano Ronaldo

‘It’s so important to have a private life.’ – Caroline Flack

‘Keep your private life private. Be open to suggestions from different people. And just be nice. I have heard stories about people who are just plain rude to the press or fans.’ – Michelle Trachtenberg

‘Obviously you try to keep as much of your private life as private as you can.’ – Andy Murray

‘Although I love this kind of comedy, sometimes I feel trapped by always having to be the most outrageous guy in the room. In particular, I’m working on trying not to be that guy in my private life.’ – Chris Farley

‘I could have been bigger, but I wasn’t controversial enough. I didn’t do drugs or wreck rooms. There were no dramas in my private life.’ – Neil Sedaka

‘You have to fight really hard for a private life, and sometimes you don’t have one. It just gets to you after a while. It’s tough.’ – John Carpenter

‘I try to keep my private life private.’ – Jake Epstein

‘Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life.’ – William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

‘I thought if I wanted people to take me seriously, I needed to act serious and not reveal too much of my private life so people could seriously accept me in different things.’ – John Corbett

‘I never make a distinction between private life and politics – that’s a petit bourgeois thing. How can you make a stand against Nazi Germany, or in Rwanda, when you live life by making that distinction?’ – Marcel Ophuls

‘I’m a very shy person towards my intimacy and private life.’ – Charlotte Gainsbourg

‘He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.’ – Samuel Adams

‘To be honest, I’m a little upset these days. My family has been exposed to the media. Some people break into our house. My ex-girlfriend’s photos are circulating online. To say that these are things I need to endure for the sake of celebrity… that’s sad. I want to respectfully request that my private life remain private.’ – Song Joong-ki

‘I don’t like having people pick me out on the street. I don’t like the status – good, bad or indifferent. I don’t like it. I want my private life back, and I’m never going to have it.’ – Mark Fuhrman

‘I’ve always tried to protect my private life as much as possible, and that is the hardest part because that is what a lot of media are more interested in – the private aspect more than the official side of things.’ – Albert II, Prince of Monaco

‘It doesn’t bother me to talk about my private life, it doesn’t bother me to talk about anything. My life is like a glass of water, transparent.’ – Shakira

‘I don’t have anything to do with Elvis’ private life.’ – Colonel Tom Parker

‘When you pretend for a living and you have to pretend in your private life as well, it’s very sad. Because it’s intangible, depression is an issue that people don’t like to talk about. It’s like a huge, guilty secret.’ – Sarah Lancashire

‘When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don’t discuss that.’ – Imogen Cunningham

‘I have no private life, as I am constantly under police surveillance.’ – Ivica Dacic

‘My private life stays private.’ – Sam Worthington

‘All my life, people have been telling me what to do. I’m tired of it. My private life has become an industry.’ – Prince Charles

‘I know we’re public figures, but I strongly believe my private life should remain private. What ultimately matters and concerns the world is the work we leave behind.’ – Waheeda Rehman

‘People speculate on your personal life all the time anyway. So I just think it’s important to keep my private life private and my public persona more into music, you know?’ – Prince

‘I am very adamant about keeping my private life private. I don’t prefer to talk about my family.’ – Luis Miguel

‘What the actor is in private life, he is to a large extent on the stage, because he cannot conceal himself and his true personality from his audience.’ – Leslie Howard

‘The greatest moral leader of my lifetime was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose private life does not bear close examination.’ – Molly Ivins

‘For most of my life, I did deliberately lead a private life and inadvertently led a public life.’ – Chelsea Clinton

‘Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a newspaperman originally in Colombia. He talked about – and I agree – how everybody has a public life, a private life, and a secret life.’ – Pete Hamill

‘More and more I think of privatisation as being not just about the takeover of resources and power by corporate interests, but as the retreat of citizens to private life and private space, screened from solidarity with strangers and increasingly afraid or even unable to imagine acting in public.’ – Rebecca Solnit

‘I grew up understanding the pros and cons of what you’re getting into and knowing what comes with your job. I like to keep my private life private, and then work is work. I feel so far I’ve had a really good balance with that.’ – Lily Collins

‘Most of my songs have names of people I’ve met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.’ – Taylor Swift

‘In my private life, I’m not around any drugs or alcohol.’ – Penn Jillette

‘I think it’s so flattering that people would even give me enough attention to know about my private life.’ – Janhvi Kapoor

‘I am stable when my private life is a success.’ – Don Johnson

‘I would train with a gay man. As long as he respected me, it’s all right. I don’t think much of it. The fact that a guy is gay doesn’t mean he’s going to accost you. He can be gay, have a relationship, live among guys who aren’t gay. He can do whatever he wants with his private life.’ – Anderson Silva

‘I want it to be remembered that Ozzy was the first celebrity who was brave enough to open up his private life to the public. He was the first.’ – Sharon Osbourne

‘When you talk about a great actor, you’re not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking. It’s inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it’s kind of a sickness.’ – Lauren Bacall

‘My life and my work are very interlocked. That’s partly why I like to keep my private life private.’ – Kate Bush

‘Can you ever imagine yourself in a situation like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie or Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, where the world feels like they have a stake in your private life? I would never want it.’ – Amber Heard

‘I’m not willing to say I want to return to private life because I’m too old to begin telling lies now.’ – Paul O’Neill

‘It’s strange that the newspapers don’t see a connection between their false revelations about my private life and my need for seclusion and security.’ – Agnetha Faltskog

‘My reputation was a bit exaggerated. Things were written in newspapers, then copied, then doubled. One of the reasons why I never disclaimed that, was because I found it amusing. But I also constructed such an image for myself in order to gain more of a private life.’ – Thomas Kretschmann

‘My private life has nothing to do with my films.’ – Fritz Lang

‘There are Americans will find it difficult to believe that the Prime Minister can simply impose candidates on ridings, and can so efficiently move individuals out of private life and into the Cabinet with virtually no resort to the electorate.’ – Stockwell Day

‘Once upon a time we did not focus on a president’s private life.’ – Tom Ford

‘This profession has fed me creatively and allowed me to have a home life and a private life.’ – Julia Barr

‘I have no intention of discussing my private life with anyone.’ – Claire Bloom

‘The temptations are great to simply retreat to the domain of private life and give up on our public problems.’ – Lee H. Hamilton

‘I want to keep my private life private.’ – Cathy Freeman

‘I stared at the television in shock, watching as my private life was revealed to the world.’ – Donna Rice

‘People always seem to be interested in my private life because I’m married to a pop star.’ – Jamie Redknapp

‘Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I’m not a very adventureous person. I don’t look for change.’ – Namie Amuro

‘He did once say the time to worry is when they stop writing about you but again I think that was pretty token of the coverage was very respectful, he rather resented the intrusions on his private life, but that was about it.’ – Anthony Holden

‘I don’t know why his lawyers didn’t tell him, ‘You don’t have to answer any questions about your private life, Mr. President. Let them sue you. Take the heat. You don’t have to answer.” – Chris Matthews

‘I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don’t find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.’ – Francesca Annis

‘The restriction of religion to private life therefore does not necessarily threaten the vital interests of the majority religion, if there is one, and it protects minority religions from tyranny of the majority.’ – Phillip E. Johnson

‘I manage to scrape together a private life, despite the press.’ – Michael Hutchence

‘These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero.’ – James Otis

‘Both my husband and I give a lot of ourselves in what we do because that is our public lives; but in my private life, I have an intrinsic right to be left alone.’ – Ashley Judd

‘I want a private life, I truly do. I’m not just pretending to want one like lots of celebrities.’ – Donna Summer

‘I did not in late November start the plethora of linking my private life with public events again.’ – David Blunkett

‘My private life… Nobody should care. I think it’s weird.’ – Alison Lohman

‘People don’t know very much about me. They do not know what really goes on in my private life.’ – Catherine Deneuve

‘To have a public life, you still have the right to a private life.’ – Catherine Deneuve

‘I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped.’ – Jeanette Winterson

‘We all know scientists who in private life do not come up to the standard of truthfulness, but who, nevertheless, would not consciously falsify the results of their researches.’ – Franz Boas

‘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.’ – Sandra Cisneros

‘Even though we work in the same field, we have an intense private life away from our professional lives.’ – Adrian Edmondson

‘I have no private life at all. I am a hunted woman. I can’t take a step without being questioned and surrounded.’ – Brigitte Bardot

‘I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn’t like it a bit.’ – Harrison Ford

‘There are certain things I want to keep to me. I don’t discuss my private life.’ – Aaliyah

‘But I didn’t ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn’t even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh.’ – Carol Burnett

‘It sounds so trite, but my private life is mine.’ – Portia de Rossi

‘My private life is private. But at the same time, I have nothing to hide. So what I will say is that I am very happy.’ – Cynthia Nixon

‘When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That’s the story of my private life.’ – Gloria Swanson

‘I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.’ – Michel de Montaigne

‘It’s inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially.’ – Lauren Bacall

‘We’re allowed to have had a private life before politics in which we make mistakes and do things we should not.’ – David Dimbleby

‘From offstage until the moment I walk onstage, I constantly tweak my talk show and ‘Top Model’, but at the same time, I often leave my private life by the wayside.’ – Tyra Banks

‘We believe that government works for the benefit of private life, and not the other way around.’ – Mitch Daniels

‘Women have a lot of power in private life. There are many men who would say, ‘Hey, women already rule my life.’ But with women, more is more. The more there are, the more the world gets used to seeing them. We change the culture. We begin to expand options and lead and manage.’ – Dee Dee Myers

‘I’m trying my best to keep my private life guarded. It’s not easy at all. Non, non, non.’ – Emmanuelle Beart

‘I’ve grown up knowing that you put as much of your private life out there as you feel comfortable with.’ – Lily Collins

‘When it comes to the work, I’m excited to see what people think. When it comes to the private life, that’s when I don’t pay attention.’ – Lily Collins

‘For most of my life, I deliberately led a private life in the public eye.’ – Chelsea Clinton

‘I never talk about my wife: we’re both in public professions but we try to keep our private life private.’ – Chris Martin

‘Most children – I know I did when I was a kid – fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don’t tell their real parents about that – you don’t want to tell Mom and Dad. Kids lead a very private life. And I was a typical child, I think. I was a liar.’ – Maurice Sendak

‘I’ve had my ups and downs in my private life.’ – Novak Djokovic

‘Being followed is weird, that people want to discuss where I ate lunch or what I wear when I go to lunch… the private life is just gone.’ – Alexander Skarsgard

‘I’ve been trying to keep the private life private. Not being savvy or trained on how to do good interviews like a politician, I thought it was wiser to follow my mother’s advice: If you have nothing good to say, don’t say anything at all.’ – Wesley Snipes

‘I like to keep my private life private for the most part.’ – Bode Miller

‘I’m not particularly a career-oriented guy. I’m lucky. I can make really interesting films much of the time with interesting people yet be anonymous, have a private life. But, I’d like to have the choice of the better roles.’ – Aidan Quinn

‘It’s tough when you’re No. 1. You don’t have any private life, you can’t even walk anywhere. I think that was one reason why I lost my motivation to play tennis.’ – Bjorn Borg

‘I don’t mind being, in the public context, referred to as the inventor of the World Wide Web. What I like is that image to be separate from private life, because celebrity damages private life.’ – Tim Berners-Lee

‘My private life is private.’ – Cynthia Nixon

‘I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.’ – Paul McCartney

‘There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into your private life. And there’s a distinction between being an actor and being a celebrity. You may become a celebrity through acting, but you don’t need to do so.’ – Damian Lewis

‘I just hope that I continue to keep a line between my private life and who I play, even if they are closely intertwined, and so I’m careful. I don’t even know where my line is, but I know I have a line.’ – Lena Dunham

‘Private life is private life. Off the pitch, there is private life, and the rest is social life, where of course you have to behave responsibly.’ – Arsene Wenger

‘I think everybody has the right to a private life.’ – Keira Knightley

‘I am for a clear distinction between public and private life. I believe private matters should be regulated in private and I have asked those close to me to respect this.’ – Francois Hollande

‘There is kind of a typical experience as a premier. You go in, you win a couple, you get out. Go serve on boards, take your head out of the political ringer and take on a much more private life.’ – Dalton McGuinty

‘My private life became public.’ – Brigitte Bardot

‘I’ve never been a person to share my private life, but I can help save lives.’ – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

‘There is a big difference between what I do onstage and what I do in my private life. I don’t put my living room on magazine pages.’ – Annie Lennox

‘You can’t control the paparazzi. But if you go to Coachella you’re going to get photographed. Whereas if you’re at home, walking down the street you probably won’t. It’s something I’ve learnt to navigate my way around but I try to keep my private life private.’ – Ashley Greene

‘I don’t want three million people digesting my private life over their cornflakes.’ – Francesca Annis

‘I wanted the focus to be on my ability as a singer and as an entertainer – not on my private life.’ – Adam Lambert

‘Kids lead a very private life.’ – Maurice Sendak

‘After ‘The Real Thing,’ I thought about giving up acting because it’s difficult to have a rich life outside your work when you’re an actress, a private life that can survive being picked up and put down. That’s what I thought, anyway.’ – Jennifer Ehle

‘I’ve always been able to keep my private life separate from my business.’ – Ashley Tisdale

‘I’ve got my private life – that’s sacred – and I didn’t have that before.’ – Elizabeth McGovern

‘I live a very normal regimented life that focuses on my training and my private life so I squeeze the insane stuff in around that.’ – Gabrielle Reece

‘I did learn one great lesson from a past relationship, and that was to never talk about relationships in print again because I’d rather live my private life than read about it.’ – Brittany Murphy

‘In acting, you draw so much on your private life.’ – Emmanuelle Riva

‘I’m not about to talk about what’s romantic in my life – I figure if you talk about it once, then that’s an open invitation for everyone to dig into your personal life even further. So, I just keep my private life to myself.’ – James Van Der Beek

‘I do like to keep my private life to myself. But then again, I don’t really get up to much.’ – Matthew Rhys

‘In the end, it is because the media are driven by the power and wealth of private individuals that they turn private lives into public spectacles. If every private life is now potentially public property, it is because private property has undermined public responsibility.’ – Terry Eagleton

‘The world when I was 13 wasn’t truly driven by tabloid magazines and social media and reality shows. I was able to have a little more of a private life.’ – LeAnn Rimes

‘Art is about the ‘I’ in life not the ‘we’, about private life rather than public. A public life that doesn’t acknowledge the private is a life not worth having.’ – Richard Eyre

‘For me, I’ve never talked about my private life. It’s always been about Black Sabbath. It’s strange to open up and talk about me as a young lad, my relationships, marriages and what not.’ – Tony Iommi

‘I don’t think you have the right to shout about other people’s private life.’ – Peter Carey

‘My private life is the most precious thing to me.’ – Leona Lewis

‘It’s nothing sinister but my private life belongs to me.’ – MyAnna Buring

‘Striped shirts and printed shorts, jeans, and trousers are all items I buy and wear a lot in my private life.’ – Liu Wen

‘I never talk about my private life. When you’re in this business it becomes so precious. I don’t understand when people open up about themselves to the press.’ – Chris Noth

‘You can’t believe the amount of speculation you get over your private life.’ – Mika

‘I have a regular, normal private life.’ – Francois-Henri Pinault

‘The hardest thing about being at Sony was not the travel; it was being divorced from the public and private life I had in New York. Travelling as much as I did, while I didn’t lose connection with my friends, I lost a sense of belonging.’ – Howard Stringer

‘I’m 61 now, and I’m comfortable in my lifestyle… I don’t yearn for the limelight on a regular basis. I get a kick out of it every so often. I go to Philly and go to a game, and they make a big deal about me. That’s fun for a couple of days, and I can go back to my own private life.’ – Mike Schmidt

‘I’m not an overly happy person. There are times when I’m happy, and that’s usually in my private life.’ – Pat Burns

‘There are a lot of things that I have not shared that I will never share. I do have a personal private life.’ – Karrine Steffans

‘It’s a very nice kind of quasi-fame being a writer, because you remain largely anonymous and you can have a private life, which I really cherish. I don’t like to be in the public light all that much. I don’t crave the whole fame thing at all.’ – Khaled Hosseini

‘I don’t have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.’ – Quentin Blake

‘My dad’s always been a famous actor, so I’ve grown up with that, and with the lifestyle. In a way, I think I thrive on the insecurity that comes with it. Not in my private life – I like to believe that my friendships and my relationships are strong.’ – Alice Eve

‘The assumption should be that we will not appear in print or the blogosphere. Having dinner should not be fodder for Facebook. And this is just as true for ‘public personalities’ as it is for the average person. After all, even people in the public eye have a right to a private life.’ – Ezekiel Emanuel

‘Your private life should be private. I reckon that’s a good thing that you talk about your work and you talk about what you’re doing, but without having to go into how your brother’s been and how your mum’s been because none of that’s really relevant.’ – Keisha Castle-Hughes

‘If you don’t want to have your private life splashed everywhere, why go to the restaurants and the places you know you’re going to be photographed?’ – Marina and the Diamonds

‘I wish over the years I had kept my private life private and my professional life a little more professional.’ – Andy Dick

‘I’m a very private person. I like staying home and doing my stuff. I hate people invading on my privacy. I hate talking about my private life.’ – Gisele Bundchen

‘I have never sold my story, done ‘Hello!’ magazine, any of that stuff. I’m not guilty of exploiting my private life for cash and then saying, ‘Oh, I don’t want to talk about my private life.’ I’ve never crossed that line.’ – Paul Merton

‘I am a public person and I have my private life. It’s important for me that my private life stay private, that what I share with the people is my public personality.’ – Georges St-Pierre

‘I enjoy being a character actor; I enjoy being different in everything. I want a private life; I want to be able to go to 7-11 and not get into a fight with a guy because he saw me in a movie, or not have people hitting on me simply because they saw me in a movie.’ – Alexis Arquette

‘I don’t feel comfortable talking about my private life, and some people in my private life don’t feel comfortable about me talking about it. So I don’t.’ – Gina McKee

‘There’s a way of negotiating how you portray your private life publicly that I’ve never had the skill to do.’ – Gina McKee

‘I don’t know… I think I’m quite extreme… When I act, I have to immerse myself into the character… otherwise I can’t act… In my private life it’s the same… I think.’ – Bae Doona

‘I like to keep some things to myself, because its called a private life, not public.’ – Nina Dobrev

‘I kind of live a private life. I am out a lot, I have amazing friends and see a lot, so it’s not like I’m a hermit. But I just know what I do for a living and that there are certain sensitivities.’ – Joanna Garcia

‘I’ve chosen not to talk about my really private life to the press – I’ve never invited a huge amount of attention.’ – Sophia Myles

‘I don’t talk about my private life.’ – Marianne Faithfull

‘I’m quite shy, so I hate seeing my private life splashed over the papers.’ – Andrea Bocelli

‘Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.’ – Yoko Ono

‘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.’ – Juliette Binoche

‘I try to keep my private life kind of private.’ – Tyra Banks

‘I have a private life in which I do not permit interference. It must be respected.’ – Vladimir Putin

‘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.’ – Lauren London

‘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.’ – Rudy Giuliani

‘I’m just so comfortable talking about my private life: I just think because I’m not that clever.’ – Josh Thomas

‘My private life is a lot more ladylike and less sultry than the fashion photos I imagine.’ – Carine Roitfeld

‘It is just that all my life I have been so involved in my work that I guess one could say in general that, whenever I had to balance my private life and my profession, my profession always won out.’ – Fritz Lang

‘I do not organize my private life with an eye to my career.’ – Zac Goldsmith

‘I can’t let the baggage of my private life get into work. Artists are more fragile than normal people. But I know that I am a role model for zillions of people, so no matter how deep you are hurting, you need to come out strong.’ – Bipasha Basu

‘I believe in my privacy. I always have, and I always will. I don’t think that my private life needs to be on display for me to get a better response at the box office or for me to get a better choice of movies.’ – Kajol

‘I don’t think anyone would care about my private life because I don’t do anything. I’m at home with my dog.’ – Danielle Panabaker

‘I don’t feel any need to play the role of the clown. In my private life I take a break from humor.’ – Gad Elmaleh

‘I see a lot of actors for whom life becomes one big schedule. I guess I try to be more sensitive to my private life – to take a breath of fresh air and be in the countryside or on a golf course.’ – Gerard Butler

‘I very much dislike being interviewed by the kind of journalist who tries to dig into your private life.’ – Patrick O’Brian

‘About my books, that’s all that I think the public has, in its normal way, to know. My private life is, by definition, private.’ – Patrick O’Brian

‘In my work, I want to convince people that I’m that character. If they know everything about Lesley Manville – private life, all of that stuff – it doesn’t help. So the kind of anonymity I enjoy is key.’ – Lesley Manville

‘I like to keep my private life private.’ – Cara Delevingne

‘To be honest, I watch way more dramatic films when I’m chilling at home. I think when you work in comedy, you just want something different in your private life. Makes you feel balanced, I guess.’ – Bill Hader

‘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.’ – Kate O’Mara

‘I just don’t think any job is worth sacrificing your private life for.’ – Harry Lloyd

‘My life, I swear, is, like, 75% public. I have a very small percentage of my life that is private. But I do keep that private life private.’ – Steve Aoki

‘I feel like I enjoy the company of Whoopi deeply, and my private life is my private life.’ – Ted Danson

‘What I like is the acting itself. But I’m a lousy celebrity. I’m not interested in selling my private life. I take my private feelings to the work, but I want there to be a difference between me and whoever it is I’m playing.’ – Tyne Daly

‘While I accept that there are certain things about my private life that will always be of interest to the public, it would be better if you give the same amount of attention to issues that matter as well.’ – Benigno Aquino III

‘I think a lot of times people who jump from one movie to another don’t enjoy their private life. It’s a great way to escape reality. But I enjoy my life.’ – Andie MacDowell

‘I never thought my private life would be newsworthy.’ – Annette Bening

‘Everybody has a public life, and they have their own private life. Everybody has their secrets. Everybody has their own private, you know, agonies as well as joys. And that’s what great drama, whether it’s the movies or the theater, that’s what it shows.’ – Annette Bening

‘Interpreting anyone’s marriage – a neighbor’s, let alone the president’s – is extremely difficult. And yet, examining the first couple’s relationship – their negotiations of public and private life, of conflicts and compromises – offers hints about Barack Obama the president, not just Barack Obama the husband.’ – Jodi Kantor

‘I survived because I never took on big responsibilities in my private life. In the early days, I lived on two or three pounds a week and learned to cook – and I’m a good cook – because I had to. Even when I went on holiday, I stayed in other people’s houses.’ – Cameron Mackintosh

‘My job as an actor is for you, so why should my private life be for you, too? That’s not fair.’ – Martin Freeman

‘You couldn’t give me any more confidence than when I was on T.V. because I was in control, but I wasn’t in control in my private life.’ – Cilla Black

‘Queen Victoria was a woman of peerless common sense; her common sense, which is a rare gift at any time, amounted to genius. She had been brought up by her mother with the utmost simplicity, and she retained it to the end, and conducted her public and private life alike by that infallible guide.’ – E. F. Benson

‘I like to keep most of my private life private.’ – Logan Mankins

‘I don’t see why it gives people the right to know about my private life if I don’t want to talk about it.’ – Kevin Whately

‘I think it’s totally up to the individual if they’d like a private life or if they’d like to be in the public eye – it’s a choice you can make.’ – Jade Jagger

‘What I’m interested in is how your career choices can affect your private life, romantically or with your mom, your relatives, your friends, your hometown, and how media manipulates information – not newspapers or blogs, but the magazines that people impulse-buy that tell you what’s hot and who’s not.’ – Xavier Dolan

‘Do not calculate what I have done, for I shall accept no recompense. Calculate the public advantage, the welfare and liberty of my country, and believe that I shall refuse no burden, no danger, provided that, at the hour of tranquillity, I may return to private life, for there now remains but one step for my ambition – that of arriving at zero.’ – Marquis de Lafayette

‘I think both of my parents are unique in the way they don’t live their lives as celebrities. They’re both artists, first and foremost. My mom lives a very private life. So does my father. You don’t really see them in the tabloids or anything like that. I think that’s definitely a decision you can make.’ – Zoe Kravitz

‘I do think your personal life has an impact on your tennis. If your private life is up and down, and you’re thinking about what is going on back home, then you aren’t solely focused on your job, but when things are good back home, it’s so much easier when you’re on court. It’s not necessarily marriage; it’s more having a stable relationship.’ – Andy Murray

‘Getting married is great, and I feel really good away from the court, and my private life and stuff is good. But you still need to train and work hard. Like, I didn’t go on a honeymoon after we got married; I went to Barcelona and trained for 10 days to get ready for the clay-court season. It’s been good, but you still have to put the work in.’ – Andy Murray

‘All this focus on my private life is the most unappealing aspect of being an actor. I don’t like it, but it goes with the territory, and I have to put up with it. I certainly don’t set out to attract attention.’ – Sean Bean

‘Private life is always, at certain times, a challenge.’ – Francois Hollande

‘In my own situation, I cannot show anything… And I believe that everybody now understands that, president or not president, one is entitled to have a private life. But of course when one is president, this creates duties and obligations.’ – Francois Hollande

‘Because of who my husband is, and our life, and also he is number one in the polls – well, you take that all together, and people are very curious about me. I’m choosing not to go political in public because that is my husband’s job. I’m very political in private life, and between me and my husband, I know everything that is going on.’ – Melania Trump

‘I’m sure you can imagine it’s pretty frustrating to have people talking about your private life who don’t know anything about it.’ – Aisha Tyler

‘For a while, my private life was the most talked about thing.’ – Selena Gomez

‘I do not believe the government has the right to investigate somebody’s private life.’ – Rahm Emanuel

‘It is natural for me not to explain my private life or to answer any questions about my private life.’ – Charlotte Casiraghi

‘Sometimes, people who are very fastidious about what they’re going to do in their work are not very fastidious in their private life. I’m like that. I love it when people do really nice things around me, but I don’t have time to do it for myself. It’s very hard for me to even buy a new pair of trousers.’ – Whit Stillman

‘I did my first interview in 1995 and was asked about my private life. I said, ‘Why would I tell you? I don’t see the logic in anyone knowing that about me. For whose sake? Nobody wins.” – Sidse Babett Knudsen

‘I know I am in a band that is famous, and my private life is famous. I get it, and it’s fine. Even when I grew up in a village, people wanted to know who was going to the dance with whom, and I understand, but I think if I engage with it too much, it won’t be that healthy.’ – Chris Martin

‘I don’t know if the term ‘liberation theology,’ which can be interpreted in a very positive sense, will help us much. What’s important is the common rationality to which the church offers a fundamental contribution, and which must always help in the education of conscience, both for public and for private life.’ – Pope Benedict XVI

‘I didn’t want to be behind a desk. I didn’t want to do a normal job. I had made my mind up. I became despondent prematurely. I had my mid-life crisis when I was 16. I suppose I’d agree with that. But acting has helped me develop a lot in my private life.’ – Will Poulter

‘My mother and father were partisan national heroes: I learned sacrifice and discipline from them and that a private life is not as important as the message you want to leave.’ – Marina Abramovic

‘It’s true that I’m even better than I could have imagined, both in football and in my private life!’ – Eden Hazard

‘I am at one of the best clubs in the world and in the best league. And in my private life, everything is also going very well. At 25, I feel in the right place.’ – Eden Hazard

‘I was recently realizing that I’ve probably spent 80 percent of my life in studios! It’s very difficult to do that and still have a private life; it’s very difficult to do anything else.’ – Jean-Michel Jarre

‘I just had one occasion in my life when suddenly my private life was everywhere, and that was an accident and beyond my control.’ – Jean-Michel Jarre

‘I try to keep my private life private and the acting stuff separate.’ – Yvonne Strahovski

‘I do like having a private life.’ – Essie Davis

‘I think people kind of know me, although I am pretty private when it comes to my private life.’ – Rozonda Thomas

‘I think it was really important for me before I ‘debuted myself’ in front of the world to have a private life with my imagination and my writing for several years. That also made it so I didn’t feel desperate for someone to find me.’ – Jenny Zhang

‘You can be brilliant in some ways and despicable in others. You can be a clean, upright, moral individual in your private life who never swears, treats women with respect, and speaks highly of duty and honor – and go out every day and dedicate yourself to a cause that makes the world worse.’ – Alexandra Petri

‘Perhaps I’ve found the secret for an unhappy private life. Every three years, I go and marry a girl who doesn’t love me, and then she proceeds to take all my money.’ – Glen Campbell

‘It’s my private life, and it’s not up for grabs.’ – Sam Shepard

‘I keep my private life to myself, and that’s going to continue.’ – Leo Varadkar

‘If you are happy in your private life, and – that will affect your tennis, and that will help you, actually.’ – Ana Ivanovic

‘Totalitarianism is not about some state that appears out of nowhere and suddenly is all-powerful. There can’t be any such thing. Totalitarianism starts when the difference between your public life and your private life is effaced.’ – Timothy D. Snyder

‘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.’ – Yvette Mimieux

‘I never talk about my private life.’ – Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

‘I think having a private life that you only share with your nearest and dearest is important. Otherwise, who are you?’ – Jon Hamm

‘In the 1970s, family history wasn’t yet thought of a serious field for study. I was terrified of being laughed at by other historians. I called my book ‘The Social Origins of Private Life.’ It should have been ‘As Pompous as You Want to Be.’ Every sentence was academic jargon, and if I said X, I qualified it with Y.’ – Stephanie Coontz

‘I don’t think of me as, quote, ‘coming out,’ because I was never ‘in.’ I rarely, if ever, spoke about my private life and remain as neutral as possible.’ – Elvis Duran

‘I became a recluse many times and enjoyed a private life I didn’t have during the ’60s.’ – Donovan

‘I’m very private about my private life. I don’t like to go into too much depth about it.’ – Mia Goth

‘I guess I’m dedicated to breaking every inherited mould I can in my private life.’ – Genesis P-Orridge

‘I don’t think anyone’s private life stands up to public scrutiny.’ – Molly Bloom

‘I used to have a private… life. Now I dont have that… I have no freedom. I miss my normal life terribly. Its a prison-like life I’m leading.’ – Rajinikanth

‘I would prefer to keep my distance a bit from the cameras. I want to keep a private life.’ – Gerard Pique

‘I will not speak about my private life, but I am a professional, and I will always give my best.’ – Edinson Cavani

‘People talk about what I did in my private life more than if I’m good at football. ‘Oh yeah, he was good, but I don’t like him because of this.’ But you don’t know me! Know me as a footballer.’ – Ashley Cole

‘I try to be available for the fans, but sometimes when I’m with my family, wife, and friends, I try to protect my private life.’ – Thomas Muller

‘People don’t know what goes on in my private life, so they have to make conjecture from something that is photographed.’ – Ruth Wilson

‘I used to be cagey about my love life. I was cagey for four years. Az and I only decided to come out because we were pregnant. Otherwise, we would have kept it quiet. It really was a case of staying private. I am not one of those people who frivolously throws their private life out there.’ – Alesha Dixon

‘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.’ – John Stockton

‘When your private life has been dragged into public space, you tend to attain a zen-like composure.’ – Kalki Koechlin

‘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.’ – Jair Bolsonaro

‘I have litigated in my private life, and I will say there are many reasons why a judge could be recused from a case that have nothing to do with their prior decisions or rulings on facts which may be relevant.’ – Matt Gaetz

‘Fans don’t care what’s in your private life, what happened in your past, where you come from. If you don’t perform, they judge.’ – Kevin-Prince Boateng

‘Changing from Sevilla to Barca is huge in every sense, and it’s not easy, but having a private life so full of love helps. I get strength from my two girls. And my philosophy is enjoy it.’ – Ivan Rakitic

‘I’m really proud of ‘Private Life.’ It’s about a marriage and a couple on the hunt to make a family by any means necessary. They’re on such an obsessive quest that, after awhile, you forget that it’s even for a baby. It fits right in that middle pocket of being a comedy and a drama.’ – Kathryn Hahn

‘My private life is always under scrutiny. Each and every action is analysed and re-analysed.’ – Urmila Matondkar

‘In my private life, I don’t really do too much because the matches are so tough in the Premier League that it takes time to recover in between.’ – Marouane Fellaini

‘If I go to the city, I’m happy that I’m free, that nobody knows who I am. I guess we have done a good job there in keeping the private life really private.’ – Mick Schumacher

‘If you have trouble in your private life, who are you going to speak to? Not the new friend you made the day before, but people you trust and have known forever. Vuitton, Berluti, Hermes: it is those brands that have never compromised on quality or values that people turn to.’ – Antoine Arnault

‘We cannot change public life until we have changed private life.’ – Theodore Zeldin

‘I’m one of those old-fashioned people who keeps their private life private.’ – Tom Bateman

‘I’m a successful professional athlete, and whatever I’m going through in my private life would never impact my performance on court.’ – Enes Kanter

‘I don’t think I will ever cross-contaminate my private life and my family life with my public and professional worlds.’ – Aimee Osbourne

‘My private life is very important.’ – Aimee Osbourne

‘People may not have the right to know about your personal, private life or any detail about any potentially embarrassing photo, but they do have the right to know whether you are honest, candid and forthcoming.’ – Krystal Ball

‘My private life, my relationships are much, much more important than my career.’ – Curt Smith

‘When friends come over from Europe, they think it’s going to be rainy in Seattle but it’s beautiful. It’s a hidden pearl. And people here respect your private life.’ – Freddie Ljungberg

‘I’d rather be left to my own private life as much as be possible.’ – Roddy Llewellyn

‘Of course, I like to keep my private life, private.’ – Katie Melua

‘I’m not worried about what people do in their private life. I look out for taxpayers’ money.’ – Rob Ford

‘In my private life, it was a disaster. In my public life, it was fantastic.’ – Rob Ford

‘I wanted to be able to play music, and then when I went out in my private life, my personal life, I didn’t want to be famous.’ – J. J. Cale

‘I don’t talk about my private life.’ – Robert Parish

‘It’s not for me to give anybody advice about their private life.’ – Raul

‘I wanted my private life to be private. I just wanted to be a fighter.’ – Fallon Fox

‘Everything for us as a driver is related to our working, on your work and how you feel. It helps how you feel, how happy you are; also for your private life.’ – Felipe Massa

‘My life philosophy is that you need a boring private life if you want to have a more exciting public life.’ – Rutger Bregman

‘A lot of things, experiences I had, helped me to grow up and mature, both in terms of my football career and my private life too.’ – Javier Zanetti

‘The idea of a private life has been eroded in the sphere of politics.’ – Claire Fox

‘Frankly, I wasn’t comfortable with the idea of showing my private life to the public.’ – Nagma

‘One should not poke their nose into the private life of other persons.’ – Dutee Chand

‘For me, it is utterly incomprehensible how people share their private life, from truly confidential and intimate things, indiscriminately with thousands or even millions of people.’ – Joachim Low

‘I’m against all types of drugs and steroids, but the athlete has the right to have a private life. He has to be clean on the day of the competition. Out of competition, that’s his life.’ – Wanderlei Silva

‘I reached a point in my private life where I started having these thoughts about changing. But I was paralyzed by fear, that I would lose everything that I had worked very hard to achieve up until that point.’ – Perez Hilton

‘I can understand being in such a public place and having your intimate private life examined.’ – Rick Famuyiwa

‘My private life has never been a secret. I’ve never been a closet queen.’ – Nigel Hawthorne

‘My private life, I prefer to have that private.’ – Sven-Goran Eriksson

‘If I am going to write a book, which I have done, I think we have to get it right – whatever has been written about me, about football, about my private life.’ – Sven-Goran Eriksson

‘My private life has absolutely nothing to do with my football.’ – Sven-Goran Eriksson

‘In Italy, so long as you are not criminal, they couldn’t care less about your private life. It’s when you lose a football match that they criticise you – a lot.’ – Sven-Goran Eriksson

‘I thought I was prepared for England but I was not prepared for things outside football, my private life. I am not very proud that fans could probably name three of my former girlfriends. I don’t think it damaged my football results. But my image outside football it damaged, yes.’ – Sven-Goran Eriksson

‘My private life was not very private in England.’ – Sven-Goran Eriksson

‘I’m an actress, not a politician. And my private life is my private life.’ – Lesley Sharp

‘I accept that speculation, cheerful or otherwise, about the private life is something public figures must expect, but I am lucky enough to continue to enjoy the love and support of Victoria and my children, Claudia and Freddy, and to finally be at ease with myself.’ – Crispin Blunt

‘We wanted to draw a line between public life and private life.’ – Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

‘I am not going to be the sort of politician who does all that stuff about their private life.’ – Liz Kendall

‘As difficult as it can be to have your private life plastered all over the press and on social media every day, I guess the one plus side is that it is like a looking glass for other women to look in and relate to.’ – Perrie Edwards

‘I’m not Sammi Sweetheart in my private life.’ – Sammi Giancola

‘I want my private life to reflect what I preach publicly.’ – Kirk Franklin

‘I definitely think people think celebrities have it easy. I think they have it twice as hard as someone going to a nine-to-five sitting in an office because they can keep their private life to themselves.’ – Megan McKenna

‘I want someone that’s caring, funny, who’s similar to me – who doesn’t take life too seriously – keeps their private life private and is mature! – Maura Higgins’ – Maura Higgins

‘I think a lot of people think of NASCAR drivers as living the private life, the luxurious life. But I don’t.’ – Kyle Larson

‘I try to balance out my private life with my public job – I have learned to draw a very clear line in the sand and save up hugs and kisses and special moments with friends and family when I can because the job involves a lot of travel away from the people you love.’ – Darren Hayes

‘My sentimental problems, my private life, should not be involved in sports and politics.’ – Peng Shuai

‘It’s definitely been a hard road especially from all the things I’ve endured in my private life.’ – Julianna Pena

‘If you talk about your private life, it’s not private anymore. What I do as a livelihood is for public consumption, but the rest is not.’ – Ken Wahl

‘I live my private life off-stream, okay.’ – Pokimane

‘There are at least two circumstances under which journalists have both a right and an obligation to publish details about a public person’s private life: first, if the behaviors or events in question are illegal or immoral; and second, if it can be shown that the subject lied publicly about them.’ – Norah Vincent