I want a private life, I truly do. I’m not just pretending to want one like lots of celebrities.
Why should anyone be interested in my life? It’s the prurience I find so extraordinary. Why, why, oh why should my private life be of any interest to the public? The only people who should be interested are my friends.
The idea of a private life has been eroded in the sphere of politics.
I manage to scrape together a private life, despite the press.
We cannot change public life until we have changed private life.
I’ve always been able to keep my private life separate from my business.
The temptations are great to simply retreat to the domain of private life and give up on our public problems.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a newspaperman originally in Colombia. He talked about – and I agree – how everybody has a public life, a private life, and a secret life.
In the 1970s, family history wasn’t yet thought of a serious field for study. I was terrified of being laughed at by other historians. I called my book ‘The Social Origins of Private Life.’ It should have been ‘As Pompous as You Want to Be.’ Every sentence was academic jargon, and if I said X, I qualified it with Y.
I’m really proud of ‘Private Life.’ It’s about a marriage and a couple on the hunt to make a family by any means necessary. They’re on such an obsessive quest that, after awhile, you forget that it’s even for a baby. It fits right in that middle pocket of being a comedy and a drama.
In my private life, it was a disaster. In my public life, it was fantastic.
The more of your private life you put into the public domain, the smaller your private life becomes.
I don’t see why it gives people the right to know about my private life if I don’t want to talk about it.
The greatest moral leader of my lifetime was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose private life does not bear close examination.
I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.
I’m not an overly happy person. There are times when I’m happy, and that’s usually in my private life.
I don’t think you have the right to shout about other people’s private life.
I used to be cagey about my love life. I was cagey for four years. Az and I only decided to come out because we were pregnant. Otherwise, we would have kept it quiet. It really was a case of staying private. I am not one of those people who frivolously throws their private life out there.
About my books, that’s all that I think the public has, in its normal way, to know. My private life is, by definition, private.
