Private Identity Quotes

I have a life beyond performance. I love it, and it probably is the better part of my life, but I do have another life.

The story of my life has been of public interest, which is why I've been so passionate about having a private identity. When I step into a character, people have to be able to suspend their disbelief; they have to be able to divorce me from Hermiona. And not having everyone know every single intimate detail of my entire life is part of me trying to protect my ability to do my job well.

When I'm at home, I want to be a normal person. I don't want to hear, 'Can I have your autograph?'

Private is our DNA, in my DNA. It enables us to make decisions for the long term.

If I am out in the street or buying bread or taking a taxi, no one knows who I am.

There are a lot of parts of who I am that no one in the public has ever known, but the older I've gotten, the more I've appreciated my own strange little self and come to terms with that.

I did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in exchange for success.

Pornography and violence are by-products of societies in which private identity has been ... destroyed by sudden environmental change.

Acting is about covering up traces of who you are and just being the character. I think it's easier to accept people in roles if you don't know a lot about them.

The chicest thing is when you don't exist on Google.

People have recognized me sometimes but not much. I'm glad my life isn't too different. I don't want it to be.

Outside among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom.

He's known as Sting. I have my own personal name for him, but that shall remain a personal name.

He that puts on a public gown must put off a private person.

I feel with some passion that what we truly are is private, and almost infinitely complex, and ambiguous, and both external and internal, and double- or triple- or multiply natured, and largely mysterious even to ourselves; and furthermore that what we are is only part of us, because identity, unlike "identity", must include what we do. And I think that to find oneself and every aspect of this complexity reduced in the public mind to one property that apparently subsumes all the rest ("gay", "black", "Muslim", whatever) is to be the victim of a piece of extraordinary intellectual vulgarity.

I realized that my identity as a novelist was private. Only I knew how much of a novelist I was!