Top 100 Private Person Quotes
#1. 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
#2. I'm a very private person, and when I leave the stage, I leave the stage.
Helen Reddy
#3. 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
#4. I am a private person and that has always been my personality.
Grete Waitz
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. I'm kind of a private person, and sometimes it's like pulling teeth to get me to talk.
Morris Chestnut
#8. As a private person I think I am now totally different from Ruud van Nistelrooy the footballer.
Ruud Van Nistelrooy
#9. 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
#10. I'm a very private person, regardless of what the world may think of me.
Joe Arpaio
#11. I'm kind of a private person in a way.
Thomas Horn
#12. 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
#13. I think it's difficult, if you're a quite private person like I am, to write about your life very intimately.
Jo Brand
#14. 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
#15. I am a very private person. I still get shy at times.
Amy Weber
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#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. I always have been a private person. I like to be alone. When I was a little girl I used to listen to the radio and just be by myself.
Columba Bush
#23. I wish I could write more make-believe. It's a lot easier to write about hard times and when things are going wrong. But I've never been a private person.
Gwen Stefani
#24. Here, every private person is authorized to arm himself, and on the strength of this authority, I do not deny the inhabitants had a right to arm themselves at that time, for their defense, not for offense ...
John Adams
#25. I am a private person, but I will reveal this about myself: if you start massaging my shoulders, don't expect me to tell you to stop.
Robert Breault
#26. I'm a private person. And I have a certain way in which I protect myself. I don't openly wear my feelings.
Katrina Kaif
#27. I was a very private person. All of a sudden, to see myself all over the internet and be like, "Oh god, do I want people to even hear this stuff?"
Jack Tatum
#28. I'm a fairly quiet and private person. So I haven't sought publicity.
Mark Walter
#30. I'm a very private person, and I don't want to share stuff with anyone.
Joe Torre
#32. I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.
Barry Bonds
#33. I am a private person; I think that's important if you're an actor. But there's a difference between privacy and secrecy, and I'm not a secretive person.
Andrew Scott
#34. I'm a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters.
P.J. Harvey
#35. I'm a very private person that prefers a low profile.
Paul Allen
#36. In general, I think I'm a very private person. But I also love human beings.
Victoria Legrand
#38. I want to be remembered as the football player I was. The private person is nobody's business.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
#40. 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
#41. I'm a private person; I stick to my neighbourhood and eat in my little restaurants.
Juno Temple
#42. I've always thought I had pretty good instincts for people. There is a short list of people I've worked with over my career with whom I've not been able to distinguish easily between the public persona and the real private person.
Randall Robinson
#43. I'm a private person so wasn't the type of person who could talk to people and be like this is going on at home, I want this shirt, this girl don't like me, etc. I just rap about it!
Kirko Bangz
#44. I'm not a big fan of Twitter and Facebook. I just feel like I'm a very private person and I do enjoy personal interaction. It is nice to be able to talk with the fans, in person. I don't know if it's 'cause I'm just old-fashioned, but I'd rather a face-to-face conversation.
Ksenia Solo
#45. No longer virtuous no longer free; is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth.
Benjamin Franklin
#46. I call God to witness that as a private person I have done nothing unbeseeming an honest man, nor, as I bear the place of a public man, have I done anything unworthy of my place.
Francis Walsingham
#47. I have a Facebook page and a website. Beyond that, I'm actually a very private person. I'd rather see the focus on the books than on me.
Anita Shreve
#48. my sympathy. And my gratitude." "Your gratitude? For what?" "For sharing that information with me. I know you are a private person, Mr. Birdsey. Thank you for trusting me.
Wally Lamb
#49. He was a very private person, but then, you know, he belonged to the whole United States. The United States thought they owned Johnny Carson.
Doc Severinsen
#50. I'm a pretty private person. I'm not "out there" out there. From living in New York City, I developed a certain awareness that you have to have when you live by yourself.
Brooklyn Sudano
#53. I'm a private person, but I don't feel afraid to walk out of my door or anything. I get recognised occasionally, but not overwhelmingly so.
Paul Dano
#54. I've always been a private person, and I've always valued my private life.
Amber Heard
#55. I'm a very loyal and very private person when it comes to my personal life. But I obviously do have Twitter and Instagram, and I will share some of the things I'm doing.
Kendall Jenner
#56. I was an unusually private person - in a way, kind of insufferably so. I think I thought the celebrity thing when it happened was a temporary phenomenon, and I was above it.
Jane Pauley
#57. 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
#58. At the same time that I love meeting people and stuff, I'm a very private person.
Casey James
#59. That requires quite an imaginative leap because it's hard for me to imagine that my biography would be of much interest to anyone, and because I'm a fairly private person, the notion doesn't appeal to me.
Debra Dean
#61. I'm a very private person, and you have a lot of people looking into your personal life, away from football. That's the one thing that I don't like, but I always remember how lucky we are that we're playing football.
Frank Lampard
#62. It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical.
James Taylor
#64. I have to be a lot more calculating because I'm a very private person. I actually really struggle with the attention; I'm generally a pretty shy kind of a person. So it's tough figuring out how to manage it. But there are ways of managing it, and you just have to be smart.
Emily Watson
#65. I can be a show-off at home. But publicly, I have always been a private person. It's not totally my bag to court the press.
Jade Jagger
#66. 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
#67. I'm such a private person, and sexuality is such a private thing. A sex scene is much harder than a fight scene. It's one thing to say, 'Kick higher,' but 'Kiss harder' - that's just crazy.
Carrie-Anne Moss
#68. I'm a very private person. I find it very daunting to have to give private parts of myself away to people, you know?
Emily Browning
#69. I'm very expressive, but I'm also a very private person. It is so hard to be private in the entertainment business.
Shirley Eaton
#70. I'm a very private person, a very bookish person. The social world of Hollywood I know nothing about because I choose not to take part.
John Logan
#71. I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
Farrah Fawcett
#72. But on the other hand I believe I'm a private person too, and I enjoy that aspect of my life as well.
Beau Bridges
#73. I have heard all kinds of stories about telling employers about MS and I really don't know what the answer is. I am a private person, but I have found support by talking to fellow MSrs in the community.
Teri Garr
#74. I am an extremely private person. I always feel that I come across as a caricature of myself whenever I do interviews.
Mia Kirshner
#75. I'm just not a private person. It's not like I do things because I want things to be public; it's just that's my way of expressing myself, and I happen to be very famous.
Lily Allen
#76. Violence is not to be undertaken by private persons. If a state or administration acts without due and visible attention to agreed international process, it acts in a way analogous to a private person. It purports to be judge of its own interest.
Rowan Williams
#77. I'm a private person, and I don't want people knowing what kind of underwear I like. It's creepy!
Carrie Underwood
#78. If I wasn't a model I would have liked to be a gardener. It is still a puzzle to me that I ever became a model. I am an extremely private person and I do not have the temperament for fame. I think I was rather ashamed of this trivial way of earning a living.
Jean Shrimpton
#79. As a private person, professionally I am invisible.
Michael Haneke
#80. I have got a fantastic life and I just like to get on with it, and I am quite a private person.
Jack Whitehall
#81. I'm a pretty private person, so I'd like to say I'm a good ear and that I keep my mouth shut.
James Badge Dale
#82. The grand surprise has really been the fact that being an author, which to me had always implied being a private person, actually requires you to be a public person as well, and those are two separate entities to me.
Lois Lowry
#83. I'm a very private person. What I did in the past or what somebody heard me do or has a bootleg of me doing ... well, if you have a bootleg, then I did it.
Mark Lanegan
#84. To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.
Thomas Traherne
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. If the constitutional right to keep and bear arms is to mean anything, it must, as a general matter, permit a person to possess, carry and sometimes conceal arms to maintain the security of his private residence or privately operated business.
David Prosser Jr.
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. At a deeper level, each person is the custodian of a completely private, individual world.
John O'Donohue
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. 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
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