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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

If I have the chance to say something, I will say it – but that doesn’t obligate me to always say something, or to shed light on every problem, as if I were a lawmaker.

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

I don’t have any secrets I need kept any more.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Big Brother is watching you.

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.

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.

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 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.

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 sang a lot of low stuff on songs like ‚Secrets‘ and ‚Rockin‘,‘ almost like Toni Braxton. On ‚Secrets,‘ I’m a different person.

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’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 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.

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

Nature is wont to hide herself.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

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

My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.

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

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!

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

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

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

I don’t have anything to hide.

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

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.

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

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

I never talk about my next project.

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

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.

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