Tina Brown Quotes

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 it's important to keep things private, and there are certain boundaries I feel very particular about drawing. It may seem fastidious, but my experience of talking to the press is that I need those boundaries to remain very clear.

Once journalists have been rifling through your dustbins, you do try and keep them at arms' length.

With the media how it is these days, people expect to know everything. I don't talk about my girlfriend because essentially she doesn't want to be talked about.

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

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

I don't read everything written about me.

You can avoid the press if you really want to and I don't walk around with five security guards either because I think that just draws attention.

You get a lot of people requesting photographs but I tend to keep myself to myself, pull my cap down.

I can be a show-off at home. But publicly, I have always been a private person. It's not totally my bag to court the press.

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.

On a serious level, I wouldn't tell the press if I was in a relationship or not. I wouldn't ever reveal that, because it takes you down a certain road... I have no desire to be courting the press with my love life.

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

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 never talk to tabloids.

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.

I can't comment on any outside perception. I'm happy to come out and talk about movies that I've worked on in a setting like this. Otherwise, I have my own life that I live which is very different and private.

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.

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.

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.

I just did not discuss my personal life, my sexuality with the media. That was my policy.

I kind of live a private life. I am out a lot, I have amazing friends and see a lot, so it's not like I'm a hermit. But I just know what I do for a living and that there are certain sensitivities.

I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.

The press is just not your friend when it comes to a marriage. That's why we didn't sell the pictures of our wedding, and we got offered millions of dollars for them, millions.

For most of my life, I deliberately led a private life in the public eye.