Jodhi May Quotes

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

I've been trying to keep the private life private. Not being savvy or trained on how to do good interviews like a politician, I thought it was wiser to follow my mother's advice: If you have nothing good to say, don't say anything at all.

I don't like everybody knowing what I'm doing, unless it's related to a movie. I don't like speaking to the press. I never did.

I think for more than half of my career, I have refrained from talking to the media.

I get along fine with the press.

There's a way of negotiating how you portray your private life publicly that I've never had the skill to do.

The reason why I've been keeping private for the longest time ever here, I've always wanted to protect my wife's privacy. I don't like - I didn't want to put her picture all over the news. I just wanted to keep her private.

I was never interested in being an overly public person.

I'd like to keep my personal life private. In reality, I know that's not possible. In the present, I'm trying to pretend it's possible.

I try to stay as private as possible; I know that's difficult, especially playing here in New York, but I make an attempt at it.

You can't ask the press to service you with everything that they have and not expect some of the other stuff in return if you're going to live your life like I have.

I'm not one of those people that goes into details of my personal life on national TV to get attention. Some things are better left unsaid.

It was really weird dealing with the media. I had no idea how to handle it.

I'm envious of people that can handle the press. No matter what I say or how articulately I say it, it always comes back to the same issues. And it's getting kind of old.

I've been dealing with the press for 45 years. You need a very long spoon to sup with them. While you are always grateful, they are like badly trained dogs. They smile and wag and bite your arm off.

I don't talk about my personal life with the press.

I think some people think that being on television makes you a sitting duck, but you have the right to remain private.

In all my life I have treated the press with marked contempt and had remarkable success.

My New Year's resolution is to make sure I genuflect appropriately before the Chicago media on everything I do.

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.

Doing the press has become as much of a job as getting in front of the camera. You have to avoid burnout, avoid saying anything stupid, but still come across as yourself.

The more media interviews you do, the less any one interaction matters.

If you're a public figure, and if you're working in the White House, you should expect everything you're saying in any context to be leaked.

People are more sophisticated in the way they go about dealing with the press.

I just have friends that don't sell their pictures to newspapers.