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

I never talk about my next project.

I don’t have anything to hide.

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

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

I’ve got nothing to hide.

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

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can – that is their secret.

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.

The secret of being a bore… is to tell everything.

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.

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.

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

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

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

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?

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.

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

I don’t see anything that’s come out on WikiLeaks that was a legitimate secret.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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’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.

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.

For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.

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.

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

I don’t want to be on the Internet.

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.

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

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

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

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

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

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

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author’s private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

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

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.

Big Brother is watching you.

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.