Big Brother is watching you.

Should there be cameras everywhere in outdoor streets? My personal view is having cameras in inner cities is a very good thing. In the case of London, petty crime has gone down. They catch terrorists because of it. And if something really bad happens, most of the time you can figure out who did it.

Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.

The real question for me is, do people have the tools that they need in order to make those decisions well? And I think that it’s actually really important that Facebook continually makes it easier and easier to make those decisions… If people feel like they don’t have control over how they’re sharing things, then we’re failing them.

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.

I don’t want to be on the Internet.

When I’m surfing, I’m sure not thinking about the paparazzi. I guess if they start getting on floaties and coming out there in the water, then I might be a little upset.

I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

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.

I don’t want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left.

I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you’re well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they’re used to seeing me walking around, so I don’t think I’m a very big deal.

I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.

History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.

I don’t have anything to hide.

I don’t like people looking at someone else’s image.

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they’re much more open.

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.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

I’ve got nothing to hide.

You can use your real identity, or you can use phone numbers for something like WhatsApp, and pseudonyms for something like Instagram. But in any of those you’re not just sharing and consuming content, you are also building relationships with people and building an understanding of people.

The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.

People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there’s no question about it.

I feel only my friends and family need to know what is happening in my personal life.

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

I never talk about my next project.

Our cellar home had a kitchen and a combination bedroom and half bath, which meant we had a sink next to the bed. We had no refrigerator, no shower or tub, and no privacy. My parents shared the bedroom with my sister and me.

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

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.

I don’t want everybody to see exactly where I live, what my sofa or my fireplace looks like.

I’ve… been accused of being involved with every man I’m ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain’t. I never tell if I have.

There is a need for aloneness, which I don’t think most people realise for an actor. It’s almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you’ll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you’re acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They’d all like sort of a chunk of you.

Well, I’m in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

A career is born in public – talent in privacy.

I’m standing behind a wall of jokes. You don’t know about my personal life, my girlfriends, or what I do when I’m not on the road. There’s this guy, this comedian, and this is how he thinks, but people really don’t know anything about me.

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 don’t let the left hand know what the right hand is doing.

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

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.

I’ve never had that much trouble with the paparazzi, but I don’t run the same circles that a lot of these people that do get hounded by the paparazzi.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

I let people fill in the blanks on their own. If they want to think about their ex, that’s fine. If they want to think about maybe who one of my exes is, then that’s fine. And it might not be right, because I’m the only one who knows what these songs are really about. It’s the one shred of privacy I have in the matter.

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.

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

Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it’s digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules – not just for governments but for private companies.

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.

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.

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

Read with care, George Orwell’s diaries, from the years 1931 to 1949, can greatly enrich our understanding of how Orwell transmuted the raw material of everyday experience into some of his best-known novels and polemics.

I don’t let a lot of reporters meet my children.

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?

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

The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

It’s dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you’re me. Or when you’re anyone in the public eye.