Top 64 My Life Is Private Quotes
#1. Everything about my life is private, really. I'm not so sure that any of it has ever been public.
Morrissey
#2. My point, though, is that if lines have indeed shifted, it's not so much that the younger generation just doesn't care, it's that we have ceded more and more of our public life over to the private sector. If you grow up with advertising at school, you have come of age in a sold-out world.
Astra Taylor
#3. Generally office and home were far apart, and home was much more important than office. I was not ashamed of valuing my private life more highly than my work; that, to my mind, is what everyone ought to do.
Diana Athill
#4. My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.
Jane Rule
#5. There are three movies that I am exceptionally proud of in my life, and I rarely commit to a list of films that I like, that I've made ... but these are the three films that I was passionately connected to. The first was 'ET,' the second 'Schindler's List,' and third is 'Saving Private Ryan'.
Steven Spielberg
#6. I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.
Quentin Blake
#7. I don't have a lot of thrilling anecdotes about my career or personal life. All the stuff that is interesting is private and I wouldn't want people to know.
Natalie Merchant
#8. When I'm on a plane, people know where I'm going before I even know where I'm going. People know where you had lunch yesterday, or who you had lunch with. So, trying to avoid sharing everything with everyone is my way of keeping something private in my life.
Alexander Skarsgard
#9. The reality is that the work I do is not private work. I bring all my secrets, my life, to my work. Anybody who's seen my work knows everything about me.
Andy Garcia
#10. My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?
Flip Wilson
#11. I'm share a lot of details, but 98 percent of my life is still private.
Stephen Amell
#12. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself which to turn into a dialogue would be equivalent to self-destruction.
Iris Murdoch
#13. I am a public person and I have my private life. It's important for me that my private life stay private, that what I share with the people is my public personality.
Georges St-Pierre
#15. My private life is very private, and I have chosen not to live in America or England, where you are so exposed and can't fight against it.
Juliette Binoche
#16. It is just that all my life I have been so involved in my work that I guess one could say in general that, whenever I had to balance my private life and my profession, my profession always won out.
Fritz Lang
#17. Both my husband and I give a lot of ourselves in what we do because that is our public lives; but in my private life, I have an intrinsic right to be left alone.
Ashley Judd
#18. I think having my life be as private and quiet as possible is a way in which then I can go and play characters.
Nicole Kidman
#19. My private life is perfect. If your private life and your life outside football is good, then it is good on the field for you.
David Beckham
#20. It is very important and my success very much depends on the harmony that I feel in my private life. It is essential for me to be happy in my private life. And if it continues, I am able to continue playing tennis.
Novak Djokovic
#21. I feel like I enjoy the company of Whoopi deeply, and my private life is my private life.
Ted Danson
#22. My worth to God publicly is measured by what I really am in my private life. Oswald Chambers
Oswald Chambers
#23. My private history in terms of people in my life who are dead is very easy to discuss. I don't feel those people can be threatened or intruded upon now. But I am enormously protective of the people who are currently in my life, my existing friends and family. That is where the curtain is drawn.
Chuck Palahniuk
#24. I am stable when my private life is a success.
Don Johnson
#25. I buy art in order to live with it at home or in the office, never to store it away in a vault. In fact, living with art has been one of the great joys of my life. It is a private pleasure, however, and not one that I have an urge to inflict on other people.
Michael Audain
#26. I owe 90 per cent of my life to people because I am a public figure, but 10 per cent is private to me. And I am not saying it in a defensive way. I feel my life has been made into a TV serial.
Priyanka Chopra
#27. I can't comment on any outside perception. I'm happy to come out and talk about movies that I've worked on in a setting like this. Otherwise, I have my own life that I live which is very different and private.
Jennifer Connelly
#28. I just hope that I continue to keep a line between my private life and who I play, even if they are closely intertwined, and so I'm careful. I don't even know where my line is, but I know I have a line.
Lena Dunham
#29. I have always seen myself as an athlete. Of course, I made the mistake of unintentionally opening the door to my private life by just a crack. I wouldn't do the same thing again. It has to be accepted that my private life is private, and if that isn't the case, I have to do something about it.
Oliver Kahn
#30. Wasn't it Emerson who said, 'My life is for itself and not for a spectacle'? I have a happy, full, good life because I hold it private.
Mary Oliver
#31. My job as an actor is for you, so why should my private life be for you, too? That's not fair.
Martin Freeman
#32. The drama of the essay is the way the public life intersects with my personal and private life. It's in that intersection that I find the energy of the essay.
Richard Rodriguez
#33. My life, I swear, is, like, 75% public. I have a very small percentage of my life that is private. But I do keep that private life private.
Steve Aoki
#34. Perhaps the greatest challenge has been trying to keep my time to myself and my private life private in order to do my job. Everything that is most mine belongs to everyone now.
Sandra Cisneros
#35. It is my private life which no one knows anything about, nor ever will. It needs more than half my time if it is to be a success.
Marlene Dietrich
#36. I grew up understanding the pros and cons of what you're getting into and knowing what comes with your job. I like to keep my private life private, and then work is work. I feel so far I've had a really good balance with that.
Lily Collins
#37. In my own situation, I cannot show anything ... And I believe that everybody now understands that, president or not president, one is entitled to have a private life. But of course when one is president, this creates duties and obligations.
Francois Hollande
#38. My success has a lot to do with my private life. I've matured a lot by first becoming a husband and now a father. My life is in the right direction. And that helps a player to thrive. One thing is linked with the other. My private life has helped me.
Novak Djokovic
#39. Women have a lot of power in private life. There are many men who would say, 'Hey, women already rule my life.' But with women, more is more. The more there are, the more the world gets used to seeing them. We change the culture. We begin to expand options and lead and manage.
Dee Dee Myers
#40. I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.
Chester A. Arthur
#41. I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.
Youssou N'Dour
#42. [I'm] an extremely private dude and all this is happening so damn quick. I really haven't had any time to rationalize it. But it's nothing that I'm going to let freak me out or take control of me or my thoughts or my real life.
Heath Ledger
#43. While this has been a private part of my family's life, it is now clear a media story will soon emerge. My father tragically ended his life while battling terminal cancer in 1979.
Bill De Blasio
#45. The line between private and public lives is a fertile one for me. I've lived quite a public life, and it's the reason I have used well-known people in my work. I'm interested in what's going on beneath the facades they present to the world, taking them to a place which is uncomfortable.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
#46. My spiritual life is an interesting thing. It's pretty private. I was raised Catholic in the Baptist Bible belt, so my spirituality was challenged and very much a private thing and it continues to be.
Kelli O'Hara
#47. In my work, I want to convince people that I'm that character. If they know everything about Lesley Manville - private life, all of that stuff - it doesn't help. So the kind of anonymity I enjoy is key.
Lesley Manville
#48. All this focus on my private life is the most unappealing aspect of being an actor. I don't like it, but it goes with the territory, and I have to put up with it. I certainly don't set out to attract attention.
Sean Bean
#49. My faith is very private to me. It plays an important part in my life, but I do not try and throw my beliefs at others. I have tremendous respect for all faiths and beliefs, but have a deep concern that religion and faith are currently a long way apart from each other.
Rick Wakeman
#50. There is a big difference between what I do onstage and what I do in my private life. I don't put my living room on magazine pages.
Annie Lennox
#51. When I play, what I see are people who mean something to me, both positively and negatively. It's my private life, in a way, what I see, and this is what I share.
Igor Levit
#52. In my private life I do what I like. The night is my friend. If I don't go out, I don't score.
Romario
#53. My private life is a lot more ladylike and less sultry than the fashion photos I imagine.
Carine Roitfeld
#54. My private life is private. But at the same time, I have nothing to hide. So what I will say is that I am very happy.
Cynthia Nixon
#55. What I like is the acting itself. But I'm a lousy celebrity. I'm not interested in selling my private life. I take my private feelings to the work, but I want there to be a difference between me and whoever it is I'm playing.
Tyne Daly
#56. It doesn't bother me to talk about my private life, it doesn't bother me to talk about anything. My life is like a glass of water, transparent.
Shakira
#57. About my books, that's all that I think the public has, in its normal way, to know. My private life is, by definition, private.
Patrick O'Brian
#58. We live in a time where the media is a very difficult thing to navigate because it's everywhere, and I tend to want to be a lot more private with my life.
Emily VanCamp
#59. My life style in a sense is kind of private.
Marc Newson
#61. I've always felt that anyone who wants to talk about my private life is only demonstrating the paucity of his/her imagination when there are so many more important and exciting things to discuss.
David Gerrold
#62. My private life is the most precious thing to me.
Leona Lewis
#63. It is known all over the world that there are no secrets in the ghetto and as long as you keep those secrets, you may keep your life.
Felix Alexander
#64. I frequently lock myself in my studio. I do not often see the people I love, and in the end I shall suffer for it ... painting is one's private life.
Edgar Degas
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