Karl Ove Knausgard Quotes

I don't believe he had a responsibility to even answer that question - you have no responsibility to answer personal questions that people have no right to ask you.

The only time the private parts of someone's life are relevant is when they're affecting public performance. And just because someone is a public person doesn't mean that any part of his or her private life is open to scrutiny. If someone is doing his or her job, you have to have enough empathy to understand that we all have personal problems.

But I don't want to be out there anymore; I don't want people asking me about my health issues, about my kids. I choose not to be a public paparazzi girl on purpose.

I'm not out there trying to get press for myself nor am I trying to convince anybody that I'm living any kind of a life. I'm actually trying to convince people: I don't want you to know what I'm living, because it's none of your business.

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.

I don't think it's right that everybody knows everything about me.

I have a private life in which I do not permit interference. It must be respected.

I know that my fans want to know who I'm sleeping with, but it's really none of their business.

I just don't want to talk about my personal life. I feel like it's mine, I'm not trying to promote it. It's nice to have things that are your own, that you value enough that you don't have to use to sell a movie.

Being a public person doesn't necessarily mean you're a piece of meat for everybody.

Now, boys, let me tell you something. Sometimes you may see me coming out of a room in the White House with a woman. You just remember that it is none of your business.

I understand people are curious, but it doesn't matter. My personal life is my personal life.

I have a very intrusive life, I guess you could say. I think that a lot of people know too much about me, truthfully.

Just like anyone else, I want privacy at times, but I understand that I am a celebrity.

If anyone interferes into the private life of two people, I will defend the right of those two people between their four walls. That is no problem.

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.

I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me.

I wish over the years I had kept my private life private and my professional life a little more professional.

I am for a clear distinction between public and private life. I believe private matters should be regulated in private and I have asked those close to me to respect this.

I enjoy having my privacy and not seeing my face on the cover of everything, y'know?

I don't think anyone has the right to intrude in your life, but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman.

I don't want people poking around in my private stuff. They've no business in it. My work is what I give to people, that's my job, and that's where it stops.

Don't get in my personal life.

I've always declined to speak about things I don't think are anybody's business, and what I always get from the interviewers is, 'Well, you know, we have to ask those things.' I say, 'Well, maybe you do, but I don't have to answer them.'

I wouldn't like my fans going through my rubbish.