Top 100 My Private Life Quotes
#1. Everything about my life is private, really. I'm not so sure that any of it has ever been public.
Morrissey
#2. I'd like to have another opportunity to serve. I believe in service. I enjoy it. I also like coming and going, you know, because I think that my private-sector life has contributed to how I think about public-sector challenges and what I do in the public sector.
Deval Patrick
#3. 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
#4. My private life ... Nobody should care. I think it's weird.
Alison Lohman
#5. It's tough when you're No. 1. You don't have any private life, you can't even walk anywhere. I think that was one reason why I lost my motivation to play tennis.
Bjorn Borg
#6. I tend to keep my private life private. I think it's important to have mystique. It's important to keep people thinking and guessing, and you want everyone to think you're singing to them.
Joan Jett
#7. I've chosen not to talk about my really private life to the press - I've never invited a huge amount of attention.
Sophia Myles
#8. I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.
Chester A. Arthur
#9. Today I call upon my Higher Power to help me get through one more day. Help me have gratitude in the face of scarcity, strength in my private struggles and the wisdom to live a good life for myself and others. - Bryant McGill
Bryant McGill
#10. Certainly my life will not ever be as private and discreet, and perhaps I should even use the word insulated, as it was before.
Anita Hill
#11. 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
#12. I don't want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When I'm finished with my term as governor, I'm going back to the life that's waiting for me in the private sector.
Jesse Ventura
#13. I wanted the focus to be on my ability as a singer and as an entertainer - not on my private life.
Adam Lambert
#14. Most of my songs have names of people I've met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.
Taylor Swift
#15. My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
Kate Bush
#16. The first 13 years of my life, I lived in China. My parents were missionaries there, and I was an only child. Often I felt lonely and out of place. Writing for me became my private place, where no one could come.
Jean Fritz
#17. For most of my life, I did deliberately lead a private life and inadvertently led a public life.
Chelsea Clinton
#18. I understand fully that jobs are created by the private sector, having been all my life in the private sector, but I don't buy the argument that the state has no role to play.
Chris Gabrieli
#19. I'm not intensely private - I talk a great deal about my life and my work - I just don't play the game to excess.
Annie Lennox
#20. I have never sold my story, done 'Hello!' magazine, any of that stuff. I'm not guilty of exploiting my private life for cash and then saying, 'Oh, I don't want to talk about my private life.' I've never crossed that line.
Paul Merton
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. Taking the company private was not the easiest thing I've done in my life.
David H. Murdock
#24. 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
#25. You couldn't give me any more confidence than when I was on T.V. because I was in control, but I wasn't in control in my private life.
Cilla Black
#26. I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.
Barry Bonds
#27. For most of my life, I deliberately led a private life in the public eye.
Chelsea Clinton
#28. My private life is a lot more ladylike and less sultry than the fashion photos I imagine.
Carine Roitfeld
#29. 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
#30. I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.
Francesca Annis
#32. 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
#33. When people talk about my business, my life, I'm really private. Maybe someone thinks I'm arrogant or something, but it's just me.
Mario Balotelli
#34. I don't think I've ever had more fun doing anything in my life than trading verses with Daryl Hall on 'Private Eyes.' That's as fun as it gets.
Mayer Hawthorne
#35. My life style in a sense is kind of private.
Marc Newson
#36. I grew up in a very nice house in Houston, went to private school all my life and I've never even been to the 'hood. Not that there's anything wrong with the 'hood.
Beyonce Knowles
#37. 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
#38. I couldn't write a happy movie or romantic comedy to save my life. Yes, Noel Coward's an idol, but his plays are serious to me. 'Private Lives' and 'Design for Living' both have an edge. Without psychoanalyzing myself, I think I exorcise my demons in my work.
John Logan
#39. I never talk about my wife: we're both in public professions but we try to keep our private life private.
Chris Martin
#40. First of all, I'm pretty private about my personal life.
Pat Benatar
#42. My dad's always been a famous actor, so I've grown up with that, and with the lifestyle. In a way, I think I thrive on the insecurity that comes with it. Not in my private life - I like to believe that my friendships and my relationships are strong.
Alice Eve
#43. 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
#44. I have never run a public company. I spent my entire life working for a private company.
Michael Ovitz
#45. 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
#46. I do not organize my private life with an eye to my career.
Zac Goldsmith
#47. As a mom, I always feel I have to protect them. I talk about them because they are the most important things in my life but they are private people. I won't use them for my own press.
Jami Gertz
#48. 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
#49. I see a lot of actors for whom life becomes one big schedule. I guess I try to be more sensitive to my private life - to take a breath of fresh air and be in the countryside or on a golf course.
Gerard Butler
#50. I guess there have been a few questions about my sexuality, and I'd like to quiet any unnecessary rumors that may be out there. While I prefer to keep my personal life private, I hope the fact that I'm gay isn't the most interesting part of me.
T. R. Knight
#51. 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
#52. I honestly in a lot of ways don't want to sing about my real life, because that's private.
Carrie Underwood
#53. Neither in my private life nor in my writings, have I ever made a secret of being an out-and-out unbeliever.
Sigmund Freud
#54. I try not to think about my public life. I focus on my private life, and that's just the best way to live.
Angelina Jolie
#55. I want to keep my own guard, I want to keep my secrets, I want to keep my private life for me.
Emmanuel Petit
#56. I'm just so comfortable talking about my private life: I just think because I'm not that clever.
Josh Thomas
#57. I was at a small private school in London. I wasn't very academic. My dad said to me, 'OK, you might as well leave, since you're not working very hard'. When I told I him wanted to stay on for my A-levels, he said I'd have to pay my own fees, then he'd pay me back if I got good grades.
Robert Pattinson
#58. But no one gets access to the parts of me I keep private. So don't think you're going to know me, to understand me. It won't happen. You're buying my body not my life.
Barbara Elsborg
#59. I couldn't stand to be separated with my wife for months. It became quickly apparent to me that I needed to find a balance between my absolute work obsession and a private life that we could share without my disappearing all the time.
David Bowie
#60. In France I'm very private, I don't like talking about my life, and I imagined that people would think that I'm now an open book.
Charlotte Gainsbourg
#61. I did not in late November start the plethora of linking my private life with public events again.
David Blunkett
#62. I'm straight, but the character was too important to me to muddle his world with my private life. As a nobody, I got away with that deflection. I think it may have helped to introduce Brian as a believable gay man. Maybe not. However it played, it's been out of my hands for a long time.
Gale Harold
#63. People always seem to be interested in my private life because I'm married to a pop star.
Jamie Redknapp
#64. I've always been a private person, and I've always valued my private life.
Amber Heard
#65. I'm a very private person. I like staying home and doing my stuff. I hate people invading on my privacy. I hate talking about my private life.
Gisele Bundchen
#66. Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventureous person. I don't look for change.
Namie Amuro
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. I'm not about to talk about what's romantic in my life - I figure if you talk about it once, then that's an open invitation for everyone to dig into your personal life even further. So, I just keep my private life to myself.
James Van Der Beek
#70. I survived because I never took on big responsibilities in my private life. In the early days, I lived on two or three pounds a week and learned to cook - and I'm a good cook - because I had to. Even when I went on holiday, I stayed in other people's houses.
Cameron Mackintosh
#71. I've had moments in my life when I've thought if I wasn't acting, if I wasn't doing what I do and I had a career in the private sector and I didn't have a family, that I do have some tendencies where I could really kind of have a monastic existence and be okay with it.
Will Ferrell
#72. [Roger] Vadim became famous worldwide as a director, and I as an actress, but the other side of the coin was terrible. My life was totally turned upside down. I was followed, spied upon, adored, insulted. My private life became public.
Brigitte Bardot
#73. I don't feel any need to play the role of the clown. In my private life I take a break from humor.
Gad Elmaleh
#74. I can't let the baggage of my private life get into work. Artists are more fragile than normal people. But I know that I am a role model for zillions of people, so no matter how deep you are hurting, you need to come out strong.
Bipasha Basu
#75. 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
#76. My reputation was a bit exaggerated. Things were written in newspapers, then copied, then doubled. One of the reasons why I never disclaimed that, was because I found it amusing. But I also constructed such an image for myself in order to gain more of a private life.
Thomas Kretschmann
#77. But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh.
Carol Burnett
#78. I'd like to keep my personal life private. In reality, I know that's not possible. In the present, I'm trying to pretend it's possible.
Lindsey Vonn
#79. Striped shirts and printed shorts, jeans, and trousers are all items I buy and wear a lot in my private life.
Liu Wen
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. I feel like I enjoy the company of Whoopi deeply, and my private life is my private life.
Ted Danson
#83. My worth to God publicly is measured by what I really am in my private life. Oswald Chambers
Oswald Chambers
#84. I don't think anyone would care about my private life because I don't do anything. I'm at home with my dog.
Danielle Panabaker
#85. I don't see why it gives people the right to know about my private life if I don't want to talk about it.
Kevin Whately
#86. From offstage until the moment I walk onstage, I constantly tweak my talk show and 'Top Model', but at the same time, I often leave my private life by the wayside.
Tyra Banks
#87. I said with great dignosity, Father, I am afraid I can't discuss my private life with you as I have a date with Lord of the Flies.
Louise Rennison
#88. I've always been really private about my personal life. I don't talk about it.
Agyness Deyn
#89. Yeah. A feeling. Like the whole point of my life from the alleys in Bangkok to the yachts and private island to coming here like a crazy person trying to fly a helicopter like all of it from birth to here point A to point Z was all some big cosmic trick to get me to meet you. - Sanjit to Lana
Michael Grant
#90. I like to keep most of my private life private.
Logan Mankins
#91. 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
#92. I demand my right to a private life, just as I respect that right for everybody else.
Johnny Carson
#93. It's nothing sinister but my private life belongs to me.
MyAnna Buring
#94. I don't feel I owe my readers details of my family's private life.
J.K. Rowling
#95. 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
#96. Every picture I make, every experience of my private life, every lesson I learn are the keys to my future. And I have faith in it.
Clark Gable
#97. My job as an actor is for you, so why should my private life be for you, too? That's not fair.
Martin Freeman
#98. 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
#99. I try to protect my loved ones, the people I share my life with, because they don't have a public life like me. I want to keep their lives private out of respect for them.
Georges St-Pierre
#100. 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
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
