Top 121 Secretly Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Secretly Quotes from famous people such as Erika Jayne, Meshell Ndegeocello, DJ Qualls, Sylvia Plath, Gigi Hadid, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Before I was cast on 'The Real Housewives of Beverly Hi

Before I was cast on ‘The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,’ I had secretly quit Erika Jayne altogether.
Erika Jayne
I think secretly I’ve realized after my time on the planet that I have no control over what people feel about me or need from me, so I just have a more laid-back approach in my apologies.
Meshell Ndegeocello
I always wanted to be an actor. It’s something I always secretly wanted. You know, I had the experience of being picked on as a child, and I would tell people, ‘You’re gonna be sorry when I’m famous!’ And then I learned after they kicked the stuffing out me that you don’t say that out loud.
DJ Qualls
My mother had taught shorthand and typing to support us since my father died, and secretly she hated it and hated him for dying and leaving no money because he didn’t trust life insurance salesmen.
Sylvia Plath
In middle school, I wasn’t allowed to wear makeup. I secretly bought Maybelline’s SuperStay 24-hr. concealer at CVS. I thought it was the coolest thing in the world.
Gigi Hadid
I want to act in a Tarantino movie and be a vixen in one of his films. Maybe I’ll secretly drop an episode of ‘Flesh and Bone’ in his mailbox and see what he thinks.
Sarah Hay
Secretly, I’m a 5-year-old.
Laurie Hernandez
I definitely secretly dream of being a mermaid.
Jazz Jennings
As an entrepreneur and a small business owner, you are intimately familiar with goals. You’ve dreamed of the ‘right’ ones, you’ve projected ‘real’ ones for the banker and the investor, and, secretly, you’ve imagined how life can be if you can reach the ones you’ve set.
Michael Gerber
Boilersuits are used by everybody from pilots in the army to racing drivers to people who clean your drains. The one piece overall is what all males secretly desire.
James May
When companies get together secretly to fix prices and attempt to eliminate competition, honest businessmen suffer. I think this is wrong.
Robert Kennedy
The Democrats cannot say that we stand with immigrants if that secretly means we only stand with immigrants in odd-numbered years or when southern Democrats complain.
Luis Gutierrez
All comic-book artists secretly want a successful television or movie project because of the wider audience.
Rob Liefeld
I was a woman writing at the early moment when small drops of worried resentment and noble rage were secretly, slowly building into the second wave of the women’s movement. I didn’t know my small-drop presence or usefulness in this accumulation.
Grace Paley
Maybe I’m secretly in my soul a method actor.
Poppy Montgomery
Remember: your bosses prefer to keep you in dependent positions. It is in their interest that you do not become self-reliant, and so they will tend to hoard information. You must secretly work against this and seize this information for yourself.
Robert Greene
Many manufacturers secretly question whether advertising really sells their product, but are vaguely afraid that their competitors might steal a march on them if they stopped.
David Ogilvy
I started writing after college, slowly, secretly writing.
Jhumpa Lahiri
What’s making this meal actually worth eating? I think of Bridgerton’ as a Happy Meal, but with secret vitamins put in there. It’s like a secretly healthy, organic burger.
Rege-Jean Page
All the guys I know that play guitar are also secretly drummers and vice versa.
Mark Lanegan
I think all girls secretly want to be actresses because acting seems so glamorous. But as a child, I was always the villager who had one line in the school play. I was shy and I had a bit of a lisp.
Hannah Ware
‘The Catcher in the Rye’ was targeted by some schools as a book too risque to read and certainly not appropriate for young minds. My parents certainly would not have approved of the book, but I secretly read it when I was in 7th grade. I felt so rebellious, and my young mind loved it.
Richard Grenell
I can secretly sing. But I am extremely shy when it comes to singing in public.
Michelle Carter
I don’t have a manager who’s secretly on Interscope. I’m the complete opposite of an industry plant.
JPEGMAFIA
We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who secretly wish to be caught, we leave our fingerprints on broken locks, our voiceprints in bugged rooms, our footprints in the wet concrete.
Ross MacDonald
I was part of a growing community of women who were secretly dealing with harassment by Harvey Weinstein. But I also did not know that there was a world in which anybody would care about my experience with him.
Lupita Nyong’o
Growing up in Beverly Hills, everyone was Jewish, and I always secretly wanted to be.
Kyle Richards
The one thing I’ve learned, getting out to all those foreign and domestic locales, is that people in every country of the ‘civilized’ world wish – either secretly or openly – that they had the expressiveness, the flair, the I’m-so-glad-to-be-me spirit that black folks have made a part of American life.
Wolfman Jack
I am not so secretly a comedian. I write a lot of my own material if you’ve seen videos I’ve done. I write jokes.
Laura Benanti
I was really interested in acting and thought secretly I could do it but didn’t tell anyone. It was a quite private thing that I wanted to do.
Joe Alwyn
I had a year, where… I was secretly, 100 percent, dead broke.
El-P
Before 'Veronica Mars,' I was not, and probably am stil

Before ‘Veronica Mars,’ I was not, and probably am still not, much of a crime reader. My mom left out a copy of ‘Helter Skelter’ when I was 10, and I secretly read it, and then I spent all my teenage years afraid of hippies. I kept away from crime books for, like, ten years.
Rob Thomas
I don’t know the secret of Mrs. Brown, but what I do know is that there are things that Mrs. Brown says and does that Brendan O’Carroll couldn’t get away with. I think maybe it’s a leniency that they’re with an old woman. It’s the old woman thing. I think secretly we all just want to be Joan Rivers.
Brendan O’Carroll
If I told you all the people that have secretly told me I’ve influenced them, you’d never believe it, and you’ll never see it in print, either.
Dave Brubeck
I’m Richie Rich. I land in New York, secretly thinking I’m like the coolest guy in the world.
Shia LaBeouf
Many writers secretly long to be performers. You always get the ‘if you weren’t a writer’ question. I would be a back-up singer, to stand in the back and go like ‘do, do, do.’
Jennifer Weiner
I had always secretly wanted to write a novel.
Ransom Riggs
Like most people who live in India, I complain about corruption, but know that I can live with corrupt men. It is the honest ones I secretly worry about.
Aravind Adiga
By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
John Maynard Keynes
In 2007, when I was a lawyer for the public interest group Free Press, I helped draft the complaint to the FCC against Comcast for secretly blocking BitTorrent and other technologies.
Marvin Ammori
I’m always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are really happy with the images they got.
Anthony Bourdain
I think women secretly yearn for the return of John Wayne and don’t even know it.
Troy Duffy
I don’t love the fact that gravity is winning as I get older, but there’s also a calmness that comes with it, which I’m secretly enjoying.
Anita Dobson
People coming up and saying something nice is always welcome. But when you’re being secretly photographed, that’s not so nice. I would rather shake hands with someone and exchange a few words than take a selfie.
Colin Firth
Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.
Jack Kerouac
I was a case officer, otherwise known as an operations officer. My role was to go out and convince Al Qaeda operatives to instead work with us as well as to convince people and officials in foreign governments to work on behalf of the U.S. government secretly.
Evan McMullin
Jealousy can even be good for love. One partner may feel secretly flattered when the other is mildly jealous. And catching someone flirting with your beloved can spark the kind of lust and romance that reignites a relationship.
Helen Fisher
In high school, it was very fashionable to be disdainful of the bourgeois suburbs, but I secretly liked them.
Jane Hamilton
My own dream is that we discover that the NSA has been secretly keeping files on members of the National Rifle Association.
Gail Collins
I suppose you want me to say I’m at parties all the time and am secretly going out with Tom Cruise, but I am afraid that is not the case. I’m still in my pyjamas at nine o’clock each night, watching ITV2 without telling anyone.
Miranda Hart
The Lord only knows how many times I let my children go hungry rather than take secretly the bread I liked not to ask for.
Sojourner Truth
I almost died, secretly, behind closed doors.
Stephen Baldwin
My favorite music isn’t necessarily the songs that One Direction come out with. That doesn’t mean to say I don’t secretly really love some of our songs, which I do.
Louis Tomlinson
I remember secretly going off and crying. All of a sudden I’m being blocked and have to be intimate in a scene, and I’m going, ‘I can’t even look people in the eye very well. How am I ever going to do this?’
Cathy Rigby
We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.
Blaise Pascal
Sometimes, I seem to be only able to actually move and get going with things on the razor edge of possibly still managing whatever it is I’m supposed to do. I think, secretly, I might even get a buzz out of it. Maybe I crave the adrenalin like some sort of crazy gambler high on risking everything on the turn of a card.
Steven Hall