Top 100 My Private Life Quotes
#1. I don't like having people pick me out on the street. I don't like the status - good, bad or indifferent. I don't like it. I want my private life back, and I'm never going to have it.
Mark Fuhrman
#2. There are certain things I want to keep to me. I don't discuss my private life.
Aaliyah
#3. I wish over the years I had kept my private life private and my professional life a little more professional.
Andy Dick
#4. 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
#5. My private life ... Nobody should care. I think it's weird.
Alison Lohman
#6. 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
#7. While I accept that there are certain things about my private life that will always be of interest to the public, it would be better if you give the same amount of attention to issues that matter as well.
Benigno Aquino III
#8. I like to keep my private life private for the most part.
Bode Miller
#9. 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
#10. I am very adamant about keeping my private life private. I don't prefer to talk about my family.
Luis Miguel
#11. 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
#12. I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.
Chester A. Arthur
#13. 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
#14. People don't know very much about me. They do not know what really goes on in my private life.
Catherine Deneuve
#15. In my private life, I'm not around any drugs or alcohol.
Penn Jillette
#16. I wanted the focus to be on my ability as a singer and as an entertainer - not on my private life.
Adam Lambert
#18. My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
Kate Bush
#19. Why should anyone be interested in my life? It's the prurience I find so extraordinary. Why, why, oh why should my private life be of any interest to the public? The only people who should be interested are my friends.
Kate O'Mara
#20. I've always been able to keep my private life separate from my business.
Ashley Tisdale
#21. 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
#22. I hadn't even dreamed of getting another Academy Award, and there I was unhappy in my private life and miserable, i remember Clifford Odets drove me three times around the Biltmore, where the Oscars were given out, because I was so full of tears.
Anna Held
#23. I live a very normal regimented life that focuses on my training and my private life so I squeeze the insane stuff in around that.
Gabrielle Reece
#24. I found myself getting more publicly shy when the gala events and big crowds started. Some people embrace it. To me, it's not worth enough to risk my private life being public.
Matt Damon
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped.
Jeanette Winterson
#28. I thought if I wanted people to take me seriously, I needed to act serious and not reveal too much of my private life so people could seriously accept me in different things.
John Corbett
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. My private life is a lot more ladylike and less sultry than the fashion photos I imagine.
Carine Roitfeld
#33. When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.
Gloria Swanson
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. I never talk about my private life. When you're in this business it becomes so precious. I don't understand when people open up about themselves to the press.
Chris Noth
#39. 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
#41. For me, I've never talked about my private life. It's always been about Black Sabbath. It's strange to open up and talk about me as a young lad, my relationships, marriages and what not.
Tony Iommi
#43. 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
#44. I'm not an overly happy person. There are times when I'm happy, and that's usually in my private life.
Pat Burns
#45. My private life is the most precious thing to me.
Leona Lewis
#47. I don't feel comfortable talking about my private life, and some people in my private life don't feel comfortable about me talking about it. So I don't.
Gina McKee
#48. 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
#49. I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
Tennessee Williams
#50. I don't know ... I think I'm quite extreme ... When I act, I have to immerse myself into the character ... otherwise I can't act ... In my private life it's the same ... I think.
Doona Bae
#52. Clark Kent grew not only out of my private life, but also out of Joe Shuster's. As a high school student, I thought that someday I might become a reporter, and I had crushes on several attractive girls who either didn't know I existed or didn't care I existed.
Jerry Siegel
#53. I do not organize my private life with an eye to my career.
Zac Goldsmith
#54. 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
#55. My private life has nothing to do with my films.
Fritz Lang
#56. 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
#57. I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit.
Harrison Ford
#58. I don't want three million people digesting my private life over their cornflakes.
Francesca Annis
#59. 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
#60. I believe in my privacy. I always have, and I always will. I don't think that my private life needs to be on display for me to get a better response at the box office or for me to get a better choice of movies.
Kajol
#61. I struggle with deciding when to answer or ignore the constant speculation about my private life, because I feel like that doesn't belong to anybody but me.
Lauren London
#62. I have no intention of discussing my private life with anyone.
Claire Bloom
#63. Neither in my private life nor in my writings, have I ever made a secret of being an out-and-out unbeliever.
Sigmund Freud
#64. It's strange that the newspapers don't see a connection between their false revelations about my private life and my need for seclusion and security.
Agnetha Faltskog
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. I want to keep my own guard, I want to keep my secrets, I want to keep my private life for me.
Emmanuel Petit
#69. I'm just so comfortable talking about my private life: I just think because I'm not that clever.
Josh Thomas
#70. I never thought my private life would be newsworthy.
Annette Bening
#72. 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
#73. I did not in late November start the plethora of linking my private life with public events again.
David Blunkett
#74. You are all aware that my private life has been pictured to the public by the press of the country with the intent to make people believe me to be a very bad woman.
Victoria Woodhull
#75. 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
#76. People always seem to be interested in my private life because I'm married to a pop star.
Jamie Redknapp
#77. I've always been a private person, and I've always valued my private life.
Amber Heard
#78. I follow my instincts. Maybe I'd be more successful in my business and my private life if I did things like everybody else. But I just feel like I'm different from everybody else.
Brenda Russell
#79. I do like to keep my private life to myself. But then again, I don't really get up to much.
Matthew Rhys
#80. I've got my private life - that's sacred - and I didn't have that before.
Elizabeth McGovern
#81. 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
#82. I've never been a person to share my private life, but I can help save lives.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#83. I like the distinction. It enables me to have more easygoing encounters in my private life.
J.K. Rowling
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. [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
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. Striped shirts and printed shorts, jeans, and trousers are all items I buy and wear a lot in my private life.
Liu Wen
#93. I'm trying my best to keep my private life guarded. It's not easy at all. Non, non, non.
Emmanuelle Beart
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. I feel like I enjoy the company of Whoopi deeply, and my private life is my private life.
Ted Danson
#97. My worth to God publicly is measured by what I really am in my private life. Oswald Chambers
Oswald Chambers
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. 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
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