I can walk through a hotel lobby and watch people at the desk and see what they’re doing. People don’t look at me. They don’t even know I’m there.
Jerry SeinfeldI need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.
Jim CarreyI think it’s very important to cry in the shower and not in front of them. They need to know that everything’s going to be all right, even when you’re not sure it is.
Angelina JolieMy apartment is my stage, and my bedroom is my stage – they’re just not stages you’re allowed to see.
Lady GagaSecurity is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers – organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative – if we don’t solve these security problems, then people will hold back.
Bill GatesThe details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.
EminemA career is born in public – talent in privacy.
Marilyn MonroeIt’s against all of our policies for an application to ever share information with advertisers.
Mark ZuckerbergIf one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure – the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?
Virginia WoolfMy personal feelings are my personal feelings. I don’t want to express them with anyone except for a very few people. It doesn’t do any good. It really doesn’t.
Tom BradyYou don’t know when you’re being watched. That’s one of the weird things about celebrity. It’s my least favorite part of acting, celebrity.
Denzel WashingtonI never talk about my next project.
Alice WalkerI don’t have anything to hide.
RihannaI’ve learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.
Joyce MeyerFortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.
Michelle ObamaI’m standing behind a wall of jokes. You don’t know about my personal life, my girlfriends, or what I do when I’m not on the road. There’s this guy, this comedian, and this is how he thinks, but people really don’t know anything about me.
Steven WrightWhen I’m surfing, I’m sure not thinking about the paparazzi. I guess if they start getting on floaties and coming out there in the water, then I might be a little upset.
Matthew McConaugheyI’ve… been accused of being involved with every man I’m ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain’t. I never tell if I have.
Dolly PartonNo one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.
Charles SpurgeonWell, in order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times.
Lady GagaI don’t want everybody to see exactly where I live, what my sofa or my fireplace looks like.
Marilyn MonroeIt’s not proper for the government to intrude too thoroughly into the domain of the family. It’s inappropriate.
Jordan PetersonI will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.
John F. KennedyYou have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.
Lady GagaI’ve got nothing to hide.
Gordon RamsayI like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.
Angelina JolieI don’t like people looking at someone else’s image.
Stephen CurryThere are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.
George Bernard ShawPeople are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they’re much more open.
Paulo CoelhoBig Brother is watching you.
George OrwellIt’s dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you’re me. Or when you’re anyone in the public eye.
Taylor SwiftWhoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI’m a very private person. I don’t go out much. I’m home with kids. I go to work. I don’t really like being the focus of attention, which is why I like being behind the camera more.
Angelina JolieShould surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren’t easy questions.
Bill GatesUltimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.
EminemI don’t want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left.
Stephen HawkingYou can use your real identity, or you can use phone numbers for something like WhatsApp, and pseudonyms for something like Instagram. But in any of those you’re not just sharing and consuming content, you are also building relationships with people and building an understanding of people.
Mark ZuckerbergIt’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
Noam ChomskyI do not recognize the right of the public to break in the front door of a man’s private life in order to satisfy the gaze of the curious… I do not think it right to dissect living men even for the advancement of science. So far as I am concerned, I prefer a post mortem examination to vivisection without anaesthetics.
Alexander Graham BellWe don’t sell data; we don’t allow anyone to sell data.
Mark ZuckerbergI think all documentaries leave out areas of people’s lives. Which is good. There are areas that need not be explored.
Alice WalkerThe real question for me is, do people have the tools that they need in order to make those decisions well? And I think that it’s actually really important that Facebook continually makes it easier and easier to make those decisions… If people feel like they don’t have control over how they’re sharing things, then we’re failing them.
Mark ZuckerbergI let people fill in the blanks on their own. If they want to think about their ex, that’s fine. If they want to think about maybe who one of my exes is, then that’s fine. And it might not be right, because I’m the only one who knows what these songs are really about. It’s the one shred of privacy I have in the matter.
Taylor SwiftEeew, I’d be a little uncomfortable Googling myself. People sit there – and Google themselves? That’s kind of weird.
Kobe BryantGive yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.
Wayne DyerI do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you’re well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they’re used to seeing me walking around, so I don’t think I’m a very big deal.
J. K. RowlingThere’s always been a lot of information about your activities. Every phone number you dial, every credit-card charge you make. It’s long since passed that a typical person doesn’t leave footprints.
Bill GatesThere is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.
George EliotI don’t let a lot of reporters meet my children.
Angelina JolieOur cellar home had a kitchen and a combination bedroom and half bath, which meant we had a sink next to the bed. We had no refrigerator, no shower or tub, and no privacy. My parents shared the bedroom with my sister and me.
Lou HoltzI don’t let the left hand know what the right hand is doing.
Kevin GatesI find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.
Thomas JeffersonI don’t have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don’t know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don’t know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don’t think you need all that stuff.
Anthony HopkinsHe that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
Benjamin FranklinHistorically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it’s digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules – not just for governments but for private companies.
Bill GatesI feel only my friends and family need to know what is happening in my personal life.
Virat KohliI’ve never had that much trouble with the paparazzi, but I don’t run the same circles that a lot of these people that do get hounded by the paparazzi.
Dolly PartonSomebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.
Ernest HemingwayThere are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.
Herbert Hoover