Personal Secrecy Quotes

In person, I am a person who doesn't talk about myself.

Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.

I'm always leery about bumping into somebody. One time I was with my wife in a restaurant, I saw somebody from my undercover days, and I got up and we just walked out.

I expected that someone was going to out me; you just can't go through life with a microscope on your career without someone delving into your past a little bit.

I was a go-go dancer, too. I called myself 'Grace Mendoza' to fool my parents.

I think there are definitely a lot of subjects I don't share with people, but I'm not sure where that border is.

I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.

I'm a very private person, and I don't want to share stuff with anyone.

When I had signed my first film, I had not even told my family about it.

I wish somebody knew whether or not I'm Jewish.

It's kind of a catch-22 now because since the 'Da Vinci Code,' I have access to places and people that I didn't have access to before, so that's a lot of fun for somebody like me, but I'm always trying to keep a secret. I don't want people to know what I'm writing about.

My age and my phone number are both unlisted.

Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

I'm a very secretive person.

There will always be a slight difference between the reel and the real. Even my family might know 99 per cent about me, but there will be this one per cent about me that nobody will ever know. Being in this profession, I am fine with biopics or movies inspired by real-life-characters.

Know thyself,’ said Socrates. Know thyself,’ said Sappho, ‘and make sure that the Church never finds out.

I never like revealing too much about myself. Once you start giving people that look into your life, then they just want more and more.

If I had problems, I kept them to myself. I didn't make a scene.

No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.

Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.

No one will ever know from what secret I am writing and the fact that I say so changes nothing.

I've got a very behind-the-scenes personality. I don't know how I became a performer. I like to stay discreet, out of the public eye, very low-key.

I am a very shy person who is just close to himself. So I would refrain from talking about my personal life.

I'm so old that when I started keeping a diary they were in actual books, and I think that's one the reasons that I've never written about sex. Because early on you had to worry that someone was going to find your diary, so it's bad enough to be writing like Joan Didion, but writing like Joan Didion about sex acts you'd performed with somebody you had known for 20 minutes, that's a bit worse. So I would write in my diary, "I met J. and we had sex five times last night." But I would never write about what we did.

It's not important to me that everyone knows everything about me or that I reveal all that I am or have.