I Am A Very Private Person Quotes

#1. 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.

Angelina Jolie

#2. I am a very private person. No one ever knows anything about me as I don't think it is necessary. I tell people as much as I want them to know about me.

Priyanka Chopra

#3. I am a very private person. I still get shy at times.

Amy Weber

#4. I'm the most mellow person offstage. I think it's just, going onstage lets me get out some frustration that I'm too shy to do in real life. Instead of doing it in private, I'd rather do it in front of 1,000 people who've paid $25 to see me lose my mind.

Zach Galifianakis

#5. Blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born.

Jose Saramago

#6. I was never one to seek out the spotlight. I am kind of a private person, so I don't miss that part of show business at all.

Angela Cartwright

#7. I want to let my fans get to know a little about me. I'm very thankful for everything they've done for me so, of course, I'm going to let them into my world a bit. But I really am a very private person, and I love kepping my life to myself - that's how I've always been.

Vanessa Hudgens

#8. At a deeper level, each person is the custodian of a completely private, individual world.

John O'Donohue

#9. I am not a big technology person. I don't go on the Internet really much at all. Drawing is like a zen thing; it's private, which in this day and age is harder to come by.

Tim Burton

#10. I've always been blessed with confidence. I am a glass-half-full person. My first movie, 'Private Benjamin,' got turned down by every studio until the very last one, but I just kept thinking, 'Why are you people not seeing that this is a hit movie? What is wrong with you?'

Nancy Meyers

#11. The outgoing and spontaneous person that the world knew while I was boxing was a persona that I created to sell tickets and promote my career. In my private life, I am quiet and reflective by nature.

Muhammad Ali

#12. I'm a very private person. Very private. You know, I've lived my entire life in a fishbowl, so it was important for me to keep my personal life private because people can't talk about what they don't know.

Tamera Mowry

#13. the killing of dangerous Rioters, by any private Persons, who cannot otherwise suppress them, or defend themselves from Them, inasmuch as every private Person seems to be authorised by the Law to arm himself for the Purposes aforesaid.

Stephen P. Halbrook

#14. I think my career would probably be in a better place had I been more aggressive. But I don't have it in me. I'm not a competitive person, and I'm also really private.

Debi Mazar

#15. Art is a person's private vision expressed in aesthetic forms.

Chaim Potok

#16. Yesterday or the day before, while I had been going about my business, quietly and in private, some unknown person - some stranger - had gone to the trouble of marking my name onto this envelope. Who was it who had had his mind's eye on me while I hadn't suspected a thing?

Diane Setterfield

#17. By nature, I think I am a pretty private person, and that is what is hard even doing interviews for films that I really love doing, because in some ways, it diminishes the experience that I had.

Steve Buscemi

#18. Some thirty inches from my nose
The frontier of my Person goes,
And all the untilled air between
Is private pagus or demesne.
Stranger, unless with bedroom eyes
I beckon you to fraternize,
Beware of rudely crossing it:
I have no gun, but I can spit.

W. H. Auden

#19. Having to explain to a child of today, who has learned to swipe before they can speak, that certain aspects of a person's life must remain private for the preservation of one's sanity is almost frivolous.

Aysha Taryam

#20. I think someone's conversation, whether in e-mail or in person, should be private.

Brad Pitt

#21. I was such a private person before I started 'The Talk.' I don't know what happened! It almost feels like I've started a second life. In my previous lifetime, I didn't talk about stuff. Now I'll discuss anything. It's crazy!

Sara Gilbert

#22. Edgar Wayburn has worked to preserve the most breath-taking examples of the American landscape. In fact, over the course of more than a half-century, both as President of the Sierra Club and as a private citizen, he has saved more of our wilderness than any person alive.

William J. Clinton

#23. The right to private judgment is the crown jewel of humanity, and for any person or institution to dare to come between the soul and God is a blasphemous impertinence and a defamation of the crown rights of the Son of God.

George W Truett

#24. (He) paused for a second and once more marveled at the speed with which one person's private business could be so thoroughly kicked around the neighborhood.

John Grisham

#25. Performing live is not my favourite. I am more of a recording person; I prefer to be private. I didn't mind doing videos, even if they came very close with the camera. I can take that, but walking on stage in concert and singing live, that is a bit difficult.

Agnetha Faltskog

#26. I am a very reclusive, private person.

Camille Paglia

#27. I'm kind of a private person, and sometimes it's like pulling teeth to get me to talk.

Morris Chestnut

#28. I was 26 when I went to my first acting class. I'm naturally quite shy. I'm a quite private person. There's this really strange acting class in New York called Black Nexxus. For someone who's slightly shy or self-conscious, it's the most frightening thing you can do.

Hannah Ware

#29. To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Thomas Traherne

#30. Reading is a private act, private even from the person who wrote the book. Once the novel is out there, the author is beside the point. The reader and the book have their own relationship now, and should be left alone to work things out for themselves.

Ann Patchett

#31. The person who prays more in public than in private reveals that he is less interested in God's approval than in human praise. Not piety but a reputation for piety is his concern.

D. A. Carson

#32. I'm a very private person, and when I leave the stage, I leave the stage.

Helen Reddy

#33. It's a very complicated issue, this fame thing - I was not really cut out for it. There are some really fantastic things about it, but it's difficult for a private person like myself.

Edie Falco

#34. I am a private person and that has always been my personality.

Grete Waitz

#35. A person is not some private entity traveling unaffected through time and space as if sealed off from the rest of the world by some thick shell.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#36. When I am not on the stage, it is always very difficult for the public to find me! I am a private person who does not always want to be in the spotlight!

Anna Netrebko

#37. I'm ridiculous in my oversharing; my mom and sister are very open but a little more judicious than me ... and my father is a decidedly private person.

Lena Dunham

#38. I just never have really been the kind of person that's out in public being inappropriate, I guess. I like to have fun as much as the next person but I tend to do it in private and just hang out with close friends. If I'm going to go out, I'll just do it with my really good friends.

Emma Roberts

#39. A novel is utterly your own creation, a very private process. I think of a novel as a noun and a screenplay as a verb. In a novel, very little needs to happen; you can explore a person's memories and thoughts and fantasies. In a screenplay, it's all action; you must push the story on.

Deborah Moggach

#40. As a private person I think I am now totally different from Ruud van Nistelrooy the footballer.

Ruud Van Nistelrooy

#41. I'm a private person by nature. I live in my brain half the time, not the world, and I'm not a natural negotiator. But I've learned to negotiate.

Thom Mayne

#42. I'm a very private person, regardless of what the world may think of me.

Joe Arpaio

#43. I'm kind of a private person in a way.

Thomas Horn

#44. I'm a private person too, and we don't ever film anything in our home because it's off limits. It's like letting people see your messy house.

Carrie Underwood

#45. Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.

Lillian Smith

#46. I always thought of myself is a private-sector person. I was a reluctant candidate. I put in my time. Now it's somebody else's turn to take charge. But I am still very interested in politics.

Steve Largent

#47. I think it's difficult, if you're a quite private person like I am, to write about your life very intimately.

Jo Brand

#48. Public transit situates us so that we are given license to accept what's right in front of us, but will likely arouse our desire to compare our narrative to someone else's, to give ourselves permission to speculate upon a person's private space, or life, with no fear of recourse or punishment.

Julie Wilson

#49. The captain of this sailing vessel has requested a private audience with you in his quarters. It seems you've a treasure map hidden on your person, and I mean to explore every inch of you until it is discovered.

Olivia Parker

#50. 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.

Angelina Jolie