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

Big Brother is watching you.

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. That is what we do.

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.

It’s not proper for the government to intrude too thoroughly into the domain of the family. It’s inappropriate.

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

I don’t have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don’t know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don’t know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don’t think you need all that stuff.

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 is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

Keep people off-balance and in the dark by never revealing the purpose behind your actions. If they have no clue what you are up to, they cannot prepare a defense.

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

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

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 have anything to hide.

I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.

Actions are visible, though motives are secret.

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

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

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.

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

If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect.

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.

My apartment is my stage, and my bedroom is my stage – they’re just not stages you’re allowed to see.

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

Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.

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

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?

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.

A career is born in public – talent in privacy.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

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.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

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.

Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren’t easy questions.

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.

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

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

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

My personal feelings are my personal feelings. I don’t want to express them with anyone except for a very few people. It doesn’t do any good. It really doesn’t.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

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

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

I think it’s very important to cry in the shower and not in front of them. They need to know that everything’s going to be all right, even when you’re not sure it is.

Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy.

I don’t think you get successful to brag and throw what you have in the world’s face. That’s all private.

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

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

Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves. That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.

I didn’t tell any of my friends that I wanted to be a comedian, because I was superstitious. I thought if I told people, it wouldn’t happen. So I kept it all in my head for years and years.

Oh, I can keep many secrets, so I would be a phenomenal secret agent. I love secrets.

The very word ‚secrecy‘ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

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.

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’ve got nothing to hide.

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

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?

The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.

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.

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.