Top 100 Quotes About Private Life
#1. I'm trying my best to keep my private life guarded. It's not easy at all. Non, non, non.
Emmanuelle Beart
#2. 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
#3. The revolutions of the twentieth century, the liberation of the masses by production, created private life but gave nothing to fill it with.
Saul Bellow
#4. Queen Victoria was a woman of peerless common sense; her common sense, which is a rare gift at any time, amounted to genius. She had been brought up by her mother with the utmost simplicity, and she retained it to the end, and conducted her public and private life alike by that infallible guide.
E.F. Benson
#5. 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
#6. Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
Simone Weil
#7. Becoming God's reflection first in our private life and walking before God creates a wonderful platform for us to be eligible to change a whole nation for God
Sunday Adelaja
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. The novel since its origins has been the privatization of history ... the history of private life ... and in that sense every novel is an historical novel ...
Jose Emilio Pacheco
#11. Being followed is weird, that people want to discuss where I ate lunch or what I wear when I go to lunch ... the private life is just gone.
Alexander Skarsgard
#12. I want to keep my own guard, I want to keep my secrets, I want to keep my private life for me.
Emmanuel Petit
#13. Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad. Kids lead a very private life. And I was a typical child, I think. I was a liar.
Maurice Sendak
#14. I'm just so comfortable talking about my private life: I just think because I'm not that clever.
Josh Thomas
#15. To have a public life, you still have the right to a private life.
Catherine Deneuve
#16. I don't know why his lawyers didn't tell him, 'You don't have to answer any questions about your private life, Mr. President. Let them sue you. Take the heat. You don't have to answer.'
Chris Matthews
#17. I never thought my private life would be newsworthy.
Annette Bening
#18. If a man's public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.
Susan B. Anthony
#19. 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
#20. There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.
George Eliot
#21. The paradox of this arrangement was not lost on Lewis Mumford, who described suburbia as "a collective effort to live a private life." In many ways, this goes to the heart of the matter, for it is a project based on self-contradiction - the tragedy of American domestic
Morris Berman
#22. It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees.
Oscar Wilde
#23. Wrinkles of the future, cicatrices of the past, all the million marks recording a private life that no outsider could ever understand.
Michel Faber
#25. Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life.
Lord Melbourne
#26. There is no time and space in the digital world. People chat and collaborate through social networks. Cultural icons garner millions of fans online in locations they have often never been themselves. The boundary between public and private life is now everyone's business.
Eduardo Paes
#27. New York's the place where you can have a private life. You can do anything, be anything you please. New Yorkers mind their own business. Police cars, ambulances, fire engines - nobody even turns around for them. We go to the movies for excitement.
Zelda Popkin
#28. 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
#29. That mental states can be inferred from actions. That's in history - Henry VIII and all that. Whereas in the private life, I think the converse is true: that you can infer past actions from current mental states.
Julian Barnes
#30. A man needs a private life. With no ability to have a private life, one thing leads to another, and before you know it we have Bill and Monica. We need to get real about things. Humans are humans. Why should we expect more?
Jack Nicholson
#32. Study was never a one-way thing. A man might spend his life peering at the private life of elementary particles and then find he either knew who he was or where he was, but not both.
Terry Pratchett
#33. What the actor is in private life, he is to a large extent on the stage, because he cannot conceal himself and his true personality from his audience.
Leslie Howard
#34. In addition, Islam stressed on purifying the body, clothes and everything that is related to man's private life in his land and home, from the unclean impurity.
Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah
#35. I did not in late November start the plethora of linking my private life with public events again.
David Blunkett
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. People always seem to be interested in my private life because I'm married to a pop star.
Jamie Redknapp
#39. I've always been a private person, and I've always valued my private life.
Amber Heard
#40. 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
#41. I do like to keep my private life to myself. But then again, I don't really get up to much.
Matthew Rhys
#42. I've got my private life - that's sacred - and I didn't have that before.
Elizabeth McGovern
#43. I've grown up knowing that you put as much of your private life out there as you feel comfortable with.
Lily Collins
#44. There are a lot of things that I have not shared that I will never share. I do have a personal private life.
Karrine Steffans
#45. 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
#46. Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventureous person. I don't look for change.
Namie Amuro
#47. Only through women's full and equal participation in all areas of public and private life can we hope to achieve the sustainable, peaceful and just society promised in the United Nations Charter,
Ban Ki-moon
#48. To do evil is more within the reach of every man, in public as in private life, than to do good.
Samuel Parr
#49. I have practically no private life. I'm already used to this and ready for it. Yes, sometimes it is hard, but it is the choice I made.
Cristiano Ronaldo
#51. In a well-functioning democracy, the state constitution is considered more important than God's holy book, whichever holy book that may be, and God matters only in your private life.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#52. I've never been a person to share my private life, but I can help save lives.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#54. I want a private life, I truly do. I'm not just pretending to want one like lots of celebrities.
Donna Summer
#55. I like the distinction. It enables me to have more easygoing encounters in my private life.
J.K. Rowling
#56. He has to perfection, M. le Comte, the art of living his private life with as much public attention as possible.
Dorothy Dunnett
#57. Fear of failure is closely connected with the apprehension of failure in any field of life, such as career, business, education of private life
Sunday Adelaja
#58. I'm not willing to say I want to return to private life because I'm too old to begin telling lies now.
Paul O'Neill
#59. To read in bed is to draw around us invisible, noiseless curtains. Then at last we are in a room of our own and are ready to burrow back, back to that private life of the imagination we all led as a child and to whose secret satisfactions so many of us have mislaid the key.
Clifton Fadiman
#60. I'm 61 now, and I'm comfortable in my lifestyle ... I don't yearn for the limelight on a regular basis. I get a kick out of it every so often. I go to Philly and go to a game, and they make a big deal about me. That's fun for a couple of days, and I can go back to my own private life.
Mike Schmidt
#61. More and more I think of privatisation as being not just about the takeover of resources and power by corporate interests, but as the retreat of citizens to private life and private space, screened from solidarity with strangers and increasingly afraid or even unable to imagine acting in public.
Rebecca Solnit
#62. 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
#64. Me, I was still in the pygmy hippo in a skirt, singing lusty songs about Solomon's private life and a giant stone back and forth through the air as I climbed out of the quarry at the edge of the site.
Jonathan Stroud
#65. People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men.
Samuel Johnson
#66. 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
#67. These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero.
James Otis
#68. I can't say what Danny Kaye is like in private life. There are too many of them.
Danny Kaye
#69. As long as a journalist shows fairness and honesty in his or her work, their private life shouldn't matter.
Anderson Cooper
#70. [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
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. I enjoy being a character actor; I enjoy being different in everything. I want a private life; I want to be able to go to 7-11 and not get into a fight with a guy because he saw me in a movie, or not have people hitting on me simply because they saw me in a movie.
Alexis Arquette
#74. May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters.
May Sarton
#75. It's a very nice kind of quasi-fame being a writer, because you remain largely anonymous and you can have a private life, which I really cherish. I don't like to be in the public light all that much. I don't crave the whole fame thing at all.
Khaled Hosseini
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. Once upon a time we did not focus on a president's private life.
Tom Ford
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. The state is based on this contradiction. It is based on the contradiction between public and private life, between universal and particular interests. For this reason, the state must confine itself to formal, negative activities.
Karl Marx
#82. I want it to be remembered that Ozzy was the first celebrity who was brave enough to open up his private life to the public. He was the first.
Sharon Osbourne
#83. Striped shirts and printed shorts, jeans, and trousers are all items I buy and wear a lot in my private life.
Liu Wen
#84. Sometimes it seems to me that the private life no longer suffices for many of us, that if we are not observed by others doing glamorous things, we might as well not exist.
Daphne Merkin
#85. Everyone has a private life, the things they love and think no one else could really understand.
Jeanne Ray
#86. It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals.
George Washington
#87. I try to keep my private life kind of private.
Tyra Banks
#88. I demand my right to a private life, just as I respect that right for everybody else.
Johnny Carson
#89. A hobby is labor disguising itself as leisure. It is extremely destructive to the boundaries of private life.
Bauvard
#90. 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
#91. People speculate on your personal life all the time anyway. So I just think it's important to keep my private life private and my public persona more into music, you know?
Prince
#92. When it comes to the work, I'm excited to see what people think. When it comes to the private life, that's when I don't pay attention.
Lily Collins
#93. I have always been very fortunate in my working life in terms of the, I say that like I've not been fortunate at all in my private life.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
#94. Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.
Ambrose Bierce
#95. I'm not particularly a career-oriented guy. I'm lucky. I can make really interesting films much of the time with interesting people yet be anonymous, have a private life. But, I'd like to have the choice of the better roles.
Aidan Quinn
#96. The more of your private life you put into the public domain, the smaller your private life becomes.
Kevin McCloud
#97. In the end, it is because the media are driven by the power and wealth of private individuals that they turn private lives into public spectacles. If every private life is now potentially public property, it is because private property has undermined public responsibility.
Terry Eagleton
#98. Even though we work in the same field, we have an intense private life away from our professional lives.
Adrian Edmondson
#99. I think you have to protect your private life as much as you possibly can, and, at the same time, find ways to redirect that focus and turn the glare into a positive thing. I don't know how you do it. I don't know how anybody's ever done it.
Scarlett Johansson
