David Cameron Quotes

No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.

My mother told me never explain, never complain. Even as a young actress, I determined I would never give personal interviews, since they made me so uncomfortable.

If it becomes accepted that politicians' private lives are fair game, many of the best and most talented people, male or female, will refuse to enter politics. We need strong, determined people in politics, but we also need people who are sensitive and compassionate. The way we are going, we'll end up with only the hard men.

There is, however, one consolation to anyone who lives in the public eye, namely, that while it may be most difficult to keep the world from knowing where you dine and what you eat and what you wear, so much interest is focused on these somewhat unimportant things, that you are really left completely free to live your own inner life as you wish.

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 don't know anyone in the public eye who has not made a mistake and said something in a manner that does not truly reflect their intentions.

I've chosen not to talk about my really private life to the press - I've never invited a huge amount of attention.

I know all's fair in love and war but when you go off and try to be by yourself and it ends up on the front page of the press it's frightening, knowing your life is under such scrutiny.

If we could have somehow stayed away from the public and the press, it might have been different, but every private issue seemed to be played out on the front page.

I hate to spoil my own prospects, but I really don't respect the kiss-and-tell approach to public life at all, not at all.

I never talk about my private life. When you're in this business it becomes so precious. I don't understand when people open up about themselves to the press.

... the silly, mean, and cowardly lies that every day are found in the columns of certain newspapers, which violate every instinct of American manliness, and in ghoulish glee desecrate every sacred relation of private life.

It is very unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

I may be President of the United States but my personal life is nobody’s damn business

I know that in my public life I fell below the standards that I had set myself... I have seen what is wrong but not done enough to put it right. I have been more critical than correct.

We all make mistakes. In public life, we make them in public view.

Can public men have private lives?

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?

I understand that when you become a public figure, people pay more attention to you, but my personal life is my space.

Stepping back, just being in my little Stoicism Susan bubble, if what people know you for is bringing light to an issue about bad behavior, about bad stuff going on and laws not being followed and people being treated inappropriately, why wouldn't I want that? That's a badge of honor.

I don't want to be in the news for anything negative.

I don't want to be in the newspapers or to feel like I have to manipulate things to make my life seem a way it's not.

I would prefer to keep my distance a bit from the cameras. I want to keep a private life.

We've had a lot of controversy in our career, and it's never been intentional.

Public disapproval is the price I pay for writing about the royals.