Private Behavior Quotes

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

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

government has no business intervening in any consensual private behavior.

Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.

My political philosophy as a libertarian says that government has no business intervening in any consensual private behavior. My professional ethic as a thinker and writer, however, says that self-knowledge is our ultimate responsibility

I used to stick my head out the window when I was a kid and sing at the top of my lungs and think no one could hear me.

Public behavior is merely private character writ large.

I'm the sort of person who has to learn something properly before I show anyone.

I think behind closed doors people behave differently no matter what period we're looking at, because people have to stand up straight in public but can slouch behind closed doors - can you imagine wearing those corsets?

Stay naked as much as possible, but do not impose your orgiastic will on others. Don't have sex in the lobby - it's usually awkward.

We try to talk when the microphones are on the same way we would when the microphones are off.

Alexia figured, delightedly, that this meant he did, in fact, tend to traipse around his private apartments in the altogether. Marriage was becoming more and more of an attractive prospect.

In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace.

I don't even sing in front of really close friends. It's embarrassing. I don't really sing when I'm alone, either. I just hum enjoyably.

I don't think you should do things in your personal life differently because you're a role model.

I don't think we're politically correct when we're private. I don't know what 'politically correct' means.

Human creatures, living in the circle of their intimates and friends, are too apt to remain in ignorance of the comments and instructions which may be made of what they say and do in the world at large. I entertain a great horror of this ignorance.

There's always a sense that people will do things quite differently if they think they have privacy.

The real person you are is revealed in the moments when you're certain no other person is watching. When no one is watching, you are driven by what you expect of yourself.

shopping for clothes is like masturbation - everyone does it, but it isn't very interesting and therefore should be done alone, in an embarrassed fashion, and never be the topic of party conversation.

I never sing in the shower either.

I don't know that I've seen a lot of things I've done from beginning to end. I think I've seen clips and freaked out. I'm not somebody who watches things they've done.

It's always been a thing. Like, I don't touch my belly button. That's something nobody knows about me.

This may sound mad, but you sort of assume that no one's going to watch what you do. You go on set, have a lovely time, and then you forget anyone's going to see it. So it's always a bit of a shock to be recognized. I get terribly embarrassed.

In my house, we couldn't listen to 'Love to Love You Baby.' It was way too salacious back in the day. I remember my mom would turn the station off when that song came on the radio. But, of course, I played my album to death in my bedroom, with the door closed.