Lord Acton Quotes

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.

Public behavior is merely private character writ large.

When I talk to young people about entering government, I tell them, “Now think of the worst thing you’ve ever done in your life. Don’t tell me what it is. Now think about having it on the 10 o’clock news.”

It is hard to manage a personal life when everything you do is amplified in the public media.

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

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

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.

The reason so many celebrities try to keep things secret is you want the chance to get to know someone without the glare of public scrutiny.

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.

The funniest thing is I never understood why actors were so shady about who they're dating. Then I realized the things you say get printed and the people you're involved with read them. That's what's tricky. Nothing goes unnoticed. I don't want to get myself in trouble!

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

… it is at home and not in public that one should wash ones dirty linen.

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?

Some people in the public eye are hardline, like, 'We don't share anything about ourselves.' And that's fine.

It's hypocritical to say when things are going well, 'Interview me. Ask me how great I am. Ask me about family and personal life.' At some point later, when someone wants information and you want to draw the line, how do you do that?

I don't want people talking about me, for good or bad.

It's a big challenge for me to keep my integrity and some of my privacy intact.

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.

I don't want to broadcast my personal life because I feel it's off-putting.

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.

When your life changes and you become a more public person, in some ways you need to be a more closed person, you know?

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

People keep speculating about my personal life because I am evasive about it.

I understand why people might be interested. But I just don't talk about my personal life. It's a decision I made a long time ago, before I ever even knew anyone would be interested in my personal life.

Actors should avoid talking about their personal lives.