Private Life Quotes - Page 13

• 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

  Play, Lines, Careful

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• I am not reclusive. I just have a private life.

  Enya

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't talk about my private life.

  Marianne Faithfull

  "Shining Knightley". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. July 17, 2006.

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• I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit.

  Harrison Ford

  Bits, Unprepared

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• I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives. It all depends on a combination of circumstances. If all the various cosmic thingummys fuse at the same moment, and the right spark is struck, there's no knowing what one mightn't do.

  Laurie R. King

  Thinking, Knowing, People

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• I've been accused of being cold, snobbish, distant. Those who know me well know that I’m nothing of the sort. If anything, the opposite is true. But is it too much to ask to want to protect your private life, your inner feelings? Lots of things touch me and I don’t want to be indiscreet.

  Grace Kelly

  Opposites, Feelings, Want

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• My private life has nothing to do with my films.

  Fritz Lang

  Film

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• I have no intention of discussing my private life with anyone

  Claire Bloom

  Intention, Discussing

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• 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

  Careers, Interesting, People

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• 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

  Character, Gay, Men

  "Queer as Folk‘s Gale Harold". Interview with Ilana Rapp, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.

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• This profession has fed me creatively and allowed me to have a home life and a private life.

  Julia Barr

  Home, Feds, Profession

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• 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

  Brave, Want, Firsts

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• 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

  Dog, Home, Thinking

  "Michael Angarano and Danielle Panabaker Talk Sky High". Movieweb Interview, movieweb.com. August 02, 2005.

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• As long as a journalist shows fairness and honesty in his or her work, their private life shouldn't matter.

  Anderson Cooper

  Honesty, Long, Matter

  "Anderson Cooper comes out: 'I'm gay'" by Dylan Byers, www.politico.com. July 02, 2012.

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• However destructive may be the policies of the government and the methods and products of the corporations, the root of the problem is always found to be found in private life. We must learn to see that every problem that concerns us as conservationists always leads straight to the question of how we live. The world is being destroyed, no doubt about it, by the greed of the rich and powerful. It is also being destroyed by popular demand.

  Wendell Berry

  Powerful, Government, Roots

  Wendell Berry (1993). “Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays”, Pantheon

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• John Bond has blackened my name with his insinuations about the private lives of football managers. Both my wives are upset.

  Malcolm Allison

  Football, Names, Wife

  "A history of the year in 100 objects - part four", www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2010.

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• I think the novel is the American form because people read it in private, and the only valuable things that happen in America happen in private life, because public life is a dead loss.

  David Hare

  Loss, Thinking, America

  "New Again: David Hare". Interview with Kathleen Tynan, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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• 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

  Home, Men, Land

  "The mutual love between Allah and His servants". english.bayynat.org.lb.

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• He did once say the time to worry is when they stop writing about you but again I think that was pretty token of the coverage was very respectful, he rather resented the intrusions on his private life, but that was about it.

  Anthony Holden

  Writing, Thinking, Worry

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• He who does the most good is the greatest man. Power, authority, dignity, honors, wealth and station--these are so far valuable as they put it into the hands of men to be more exemplary and more useful than they could be in an obscure and private life. But then these are means conducting to an end, and that end is goodness.

  John Jortin

  Mean, Men, Greatness

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• 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

  President, Answers, Literature

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• There were twelve dishes of lamb cooked in different rich sauces, with a monster bowl of strange oddments, which I imagine also belonged to the private life of a sheep, floating in rich gravy.

  Rosita Forbes

  Food, Sheep, Monsters

  Rosita Forbes (1921). “The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara”

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• 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

  New York, Fire, Car

  Zelda Popkin (1995). “Time Off for Murder”, p.16, Bitingduck Press LLC

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• I really hate people who feel their private lives should be paraded, and there are magazines like 'Hello!,' 'OK' and 'Bella' totally devoted to this.

  Ross Kemp

  Hate, People, Magazines

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• Here in America, government began as a tool to assure freedom. It gradually turned into a hideously expensive political toy designed to redistribute your wealth and control most aspects of your business and private life.

  Mark Skousen

  Government, America, Political

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