Lack of Privacy Quotes

Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.

The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.

I can't go anywhere without being bugged by somebody. I'd love to just hike out down the street, or drop in a restaurant, or wander in the park, or take my kids somewhere without collecting a trail of people. But I can't.

I'm tired of being hunted all over. I can't go anywhere without criticism.

When you're in prison, there's no hiding. These women are not hiding behind towels and shower curtains. They go to the bathroom with no doors on the stalls. It would actually look weird, if these women were hiding.

It was hard to have a conversation with anyone. There were too many people talking..

There were eleven kids, and we all shared a bathroom. It was enough to drive us all insane.

A third of the city's population of over two million people live under unsatisfactory conditions, many under distressing conditions, some under disgraceful conditions. For thousands home is a mockery. It consists of two or three small rooms of which but one is adequately lighted and often even not that one and none of which is adequately ventilated; rooms that in the hot summer day become an inferno of torture to little children, the sick, and the weak. For the persons living in these homes there is little privacy; there are no reticences; they must share the process of living with other families; they must use a common water closet [toilet]; they must get all the water they use from a common faucet in the public hall; the fire peril menaces them at all times …

When I worked for the BBC, what I was paid to do 'House Party' was all over the tabloid press, there was no privacy there.

Not having a private life is hard.

Being a movie star, and this applies to all of them, means being looked at from every possible direction. You are never left at peace, you're just fair game.

That whole thing: the paparazzi, a gazillion magazines. You can't lie on a beach. God forbid your bikini rides up too far or you've eaten too many doughnuts and they catch you wiping your mouth. That must be exhausting, that lack of privacy.

I suppose sometimes the lack of privacy can be a little hard to deal with at times.

For celebrities, privacy is utterly nonexistent. You are asked intrusive questions about your personal life. You can be photographed at any moment.

Modern Americans are so exposed, peered at, inquired about, and spied upon as to be increasingly without privacy--members of a ;naked society and denizens of a goldfish bowl.

Being very famous is not the fun it sounds. It merely means you're being chased by a lot of people and you lose your privacy.

I grew up in a country where I remember my parents not being able to have a conversation on the phone. The walls had ears, and you couldn't speak freely.

In prison, you're issued a number of sanitary pads per month. And many times, even when you're issued a number of sanitary pads, the guards will just come in and rip your room apart, rip your locker apart and take them.

At times, I lack privacy.

Truth be told, that's really one of the small reasons that I wanted to get out; because everybody knows your business in Charlotte.

Most people don't understand that being in the public eye is emotionally exhausting. It takes a lot out of you.

As you would expect, the loss of freedom and the lack of privacy are extremely difficult... I want you to know that I am well. I am safe, fit and healthy.

Being in a fishbowl, everybody looking at every move you make, talking about everything you do - it's just a hard life to live.

I hate Zoom. Mainly because I hate staring at my own face.

Always eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or bed- no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters in your skull.