I see a lot of actors for whom life becomes one big schedule. I guess I try to be more sensitive to my private life - to take a breath of fresh air and be in the countryside or on a golf course.
I thought if I wanted people to take me seriously, I needed to act serious and not reveal too much of my private life so people could seriously accept me in different things.
Surely the whole point of writing your own life story is to be as honest as you possibly can, revealing everything about yourself that is most private and probably most interesting for that very reason.
In my work, I want to convince people that I'm that character. If they know everything about Lesley Manville - private life, all of that stuff - it doesn't help. So the kind of anonymity I enjoy is key.
I don't think I've ever had more fun doing anything in my life than trading verses with Daryl Hall on 'Private Eyes.' That's as fun as it gets.
If saying that religion should be a private matter and should not have special influence in public life is illiberal, then 74% of U.K. Christians are illiberal, too.
What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.
From offstage until the moment I walk onstage, I constantly tweak my talk show and 'Top Model', but at the same time, I often leave my private life by the wayside.
I think the only way to behave is as if nothing is private. And then fight to make what you care about legal and acceptable.
I love Natalie Portman. She worked when she was younger, and she's so talented and private. She doesn't do things that are too crazy, but she pushes the envelope enough.
I was raised Irish Catholic and went to Holy Names Academy, an all-girl's private Catholic school. I loved the nuns there and I love them to this day.
There's always a high school jerk, isn't there? But I didn't date much in high school, because I went to an all-girls' private school for ten years.
It is true that the politician, in his professional character, does not always, or even very often, conform to the most approved pattern of private conduct.
I was brought up with considerable discipline, and I was taught it wasn't proper to display certain very private emotions in public.
Painting puts me into an alpha state. It's a private event. I make all the decisions in the process and never have to deal with the outside world.
Fashion has a political role insofar as following it can give you the impression to belonging to a certain social group or a private club.
Impeachment is not a remedy for private wrongs; it's a method of removing someone whose continued presence in office would cause grave danger to the nation.
I am a Christian. I haven't really talked about that before. It is something very private. But I do pray and my beliefs are very important to me.
For now, I'm just going to hang out with these two smoking hotties and fly privately around the world. It might be lonely up here, but I sure like the view.
First, we will focus on the privatization of small and medium sized enterprises, followed by the medium size industry and then we will move on to the heavy industry.
I've really never written about my relationships, or things like that. I wouldn't want to divulge things that were too private.
