Secretive Quotes

"Every time I perform, I work really hard to give part of myself to the audience. Then I do an interview and I read some story that just isn`t true, or someone draws a crazy conclusion about my life, and it`s such a betrayal. It hasn`t happened here, but in Croatia, I`ve had to stop reading about myself. I don`t think actors mean to be secretive - they just don`t want strangers looking through their kitchen window." - on why he doesn`t give many interviews.

"There is something very secretive about the way they cast that role. I`ve never had an official call asking: `Are you interested or not`, but there`s no guy I know who wouldn`t want that role - and that includes me. Anyone who says otherwise is lying." (on the now [Nov. 2004) opened spot for the next James Bond]

When you work with Tom certain things have to be secretive and you accept that.

We`ve pretty much gotten used to the response of, "Eww, that`s weird. That`s creepy." The people who know us are happy, and probably expected it to happen eventually. But yeah, every once in a while we get that one person that`s like, "That`s really creepy. You just kissed your sister."...We thought it was weird for (first) six months, but it had more to do with just trying to hide our relationship from the set. I don`t know why, and looking back on it, it was foolish. But we were trying to stay secretive and didn`t want it to get out there. It never really weirded us out that we played brother and sister, because, you know, it`s all fiction.

Ray is very secretive about his ideas - why not, the times that the Kinks have been ripped off, especially in the early years, it makes you a little bit cautious about telling anybody what you`re doing. And that`s understandable.

We are so tired. It hasn`t been because we`re trying to be secretive or anything like that. We`re tired. This has been a very, very overwhelming and tiring experience. My son is 13. He just wants to get back to a normal life.

It turned into a positive thing. I had nothing to hide. I was not at all secretive about it. There was nobody in my life who didn`t know. -Dan Pintauro, on why he spoke publicly about being gay

He was extremely outwardly religious. He was always trying to get me to go with him to one of these sessions of Opus Dei, which is a sort of a semi-secretive, conservative branch of the Catholic Church,

I think the Fed would prefer that they be predictable. I know they are accused of being secretive, but they really are not. They would actually like to be more transparent, but they can`t always do that.

Every president thinks that all information that comes to the White House is their private preserve after they all promise an open administration on the campaign trail, but some are more secretive than others. Some want to lock down everything.

I`m a secretive bastard. I would never let anybody watch me painting... it would be like somebody watching you have sex - painting is that personal to me.

The doctors told me (last week) he was doing fine, ... Why don`t they come out and say so? I don`t know why they`re so secretive.