At home I am a nice guy: but I don’t want the world to know. Humble people, I’ve found, don’t get very far.

I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.

Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.

I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I’m with friends is having a good time. I can’t bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don’t seem to be able to get any closer, and that’s the problem.

It’s against all of our policies for an application to ever share information with advertisers.

Women fight for democracy and engage in the world. But they shouldn’t try and be copying men and be masculine; they should anchor on the home and build on those fundamentals.

The pressure on young chefs today is far greater than ever before in terms of social skills, marketing skills, cooking skills, personality and, more importantly, delivering on the plate. So you need to be strong. Physically fit. So my chefs get weighed every time they come into the kitchen.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Once you’ve lost your privacy, you realize you’ve lost an extremely valuable thing.

If we go on your iPhone and go to the dictionary and look up ‚humble,‘ 80 per cent of the definition is negative. It’s a controlling word. It’s a way to control the masses and to control the sheep.

There’s always been a lot of information about your activities. Every phone number you dial, every credit-card charge you make. It’s long since passed that a typical person doesn’t leave footprints.

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what it means.

I’m a very private person. I don’t go out much. I’m home with kids. I go to work. I don’t really like being the focus of attention, which is why I like being behind the camera more.

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Tell me what you like and I’ll tell you what you are.

Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I’m quite shy.

I’ve learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

Character is expressed through our behavior patterns, or natural responses to things.

I can walk through a hotel lobby and watch people at the desk and see what they’re doing. People don’t look at me. They don’t even know I’m there.

Big Brother is watching you.

I have much more support than most women around this world, and I have the financial means to have a home and help with care and food.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Action is character.

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

I have a heart of gold, but I’m really a marshmallow in my heart.

Funny is the world I live in. You’re funny, I’m interested. You’re not funny, I’m not interested.

One thing you gotta know about me is I have absolutely no filter. I have no problem saying what the hell I think of someone.

There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

We lived in a tall, narrow Victorian house, which my parents had bought very cheaply during the war, when everyone thought London was going to be bombed flat. In fact, a V-2 rocket landed a few houses away from ours. I was away with my mother and sister at the time, but my father was in the house.

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

Home is where you feel at home and are treated well.

I think all documentaries leave out areas of people’s lives. Which is good. There are areas that need not be explored.

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.

Although designers continue to dream of ‚transparency‘ – technologies that just do their job without making their presence felt – both creators and audiences actually like technologies with ‚personality.‘

Sitting idle at home is the most painful experience for a footballer.

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

I’ve never been reckless – it’s always calculated. I’m mischievous, but I’m calculated.

I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.

When people meet me, they say that I’m really kind – contrary to a lot of my music.

Akron, Ohio, is my home. I will always be here. I’m still working out at my old high school.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

I’m guarded; I don’t talk much.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure – the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

I’m an emotional person.

He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting ‚All the Gods are bastards.‘

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

Well, in order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Akron, Ohio, is my home. It will always be remembered. Akron, Ohio, is my life.

It’s not about charisma and personality, it’s about results and products and those very bedrock things that are why people at Apple and outside of Apple are getting more excited about the company and what Apple stands for and what its potential is to contribute to the industry.

Public behavior is merely private character writ large.

I’m home a lot. Because I live in Ireland, we can live under the celebrity radar. I might go missing for a whole year.

I’m not a serious person, and I don’t like serious people.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.

You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.

You don’t know when you’re being watched. That’s one of the weird things about celebrity. It’s my least favorite part of acting, celebrity.