I never talk about my next project.

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.

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

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

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

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

On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.

I’ve got nothing to hide.

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

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.

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.

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.

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

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

As soon as I go out into the world, I belong, in a way, to everyone else. It’s legal to follow me. It’s legal to stalk me at the beach. And I can’t call the police or ask them to leave.

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

Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you’ve started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can’t get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?

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.

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so 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?

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

I don’t want to be on the Internet.

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.

A career is born in public – talent in privacy.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Writers are always writing about infidelity. It’s so dramatic. The wickedness of it, the secrecy, the complications, the finding that you thought you were one person but you’re also this other person. The innocent life and the guilty life. My God, it’s just full of stuff for a writer. I doubt it will ever go out of fashion.

Actions are visible, though motives are secret.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

The truth is, anyone can start projects. The world is full of just-started projects that looked great at the time but were never completed.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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