I never talk about my next project.

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

Big Brother is watching you.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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 have anything to hide.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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?

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

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.

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

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.

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’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.

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.

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

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

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.

I’ve got nothing to hide.

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?

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

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

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

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

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.

A career is born in public – talent in privacy.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

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

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.

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

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

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

I don’t want to be on the Internet.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.