Secretive Quotations

I've always been a pretty candid person. I'm not a very secretive person; I'm not a very discreet person. One of my best friends once described me as pathologically indiscreet.

I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.

Seriously, a smaller, leaner, cleaner, tuskless and more secretive elephant is exactly what is needed. It definitely would live longer.

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.

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.

I think Dianne Feinstein may be the most Orwellian political official in Washington. It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the United States.

People will come up to me and try and be secretive and say, 'Can you do the Gollum voice for me?' And I'm like, 'Are you kidding? It's 8:30 in the morning on the Victoria Line.'

Whenever people ask me what the story is for my next film, I won't tell and people feel it's because I'm being secretive or something, but it's actually because I'm ashamed to sum up a film in three sentences.

People are secretive when they have secrets.

When this kind of power is used in the regular criminal justice system, there are some built-in checks and balances. The intelligence context provides no such protection. That's the main problem with these kinds of secretive procedures.

I am a private person; I think that's important if you're an actor. But there's a difference between privacy and secrecy, and I'm not a secretive person.

For the sake of popularity, vote, and reelection, most governments remain secretive to the public about the truth of alien contact with mankind. For them, it is better like that than being thrown from the throne.

What would happen to the Biological Weapons Convention if other countries followed suit and built large biological production facilities at secretive military bases known for weapons testing?

I think the reason it took the Vice President a day to talk about this is part of the secretive nature of this administration. The American people are not entitled to know what is going in their mindset. They keep things pretty close to the chest.

Let me say this flatly: Leaks are good. They are the way we hold paranoid and secretive governments accountable. Historically, leaks have virtually never harmed national security in even a minor way, despite plenty of shrill commentary to the contrary. Reporters should be allowed to print them without fear of being tossed in jail.

I think on 'ER,' my other long-running show, I had some ideas about what's going on. 'Stargate Universe,' they were kind of secretive too a little bit about what they wanted to do, but I kind of liked working this way. I like the surprises, and I like knowing just enough to work on the character.

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

Trade shows such as the wire tappers' ball are highly secretive and ban journalists from attending. None of the U.S. agencies that attended the wire tappers' ball - including the FBI, the Secret Service, and every branch of the military - were willing to comment when a reporter queried them about their attendance.

The fact that the Fed is a secretive organization that restricts access to him, for the most part, and the fact that he gives only a small number of strictly off-the-record interviews, has made the public immensely hungry for information about him. In our Oprah/Jerry Springer confessional society, a person who doesn't let it all hang out is an anomaly.

I have friends who are writers, but we don't tend to talk about literature very much. It's just not part of my process; I tend to be pretty secretive about what I'm working on.

Typically, you think of alternative investments and hedge funds as being very secretive and not wanting a lot of attention. But our experience has been, if you are good at what you do, why wouldn't you market yourself?

This report exposes one of the biggest con jobs in recent history. This long-running, secretive campaign funded by some of the country's wealthiest families has relied on deception to bamboozle the public not only about who must pay the estate tax, but about how repealing it will affect the country.

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.

While there may be short term costs to us individually or collectively, the burden of being secretive and lacking transparency would be catastrophic,

What's discouraging here is that the campaign is being so secretive about who actually paid for these tickets originally.

The terms of engagement change when a reporter and reporters are being subpoenaed, agreeing to testify, being forced to testify, being jailed. That's the new element in this. And what it did, it caused me to become even more secretive about sources, and to protect them. I couldn't do my job if I couldn't protect them. And to really make sure that I don't become part of this process, but not to be less aggressive in reporting the news.

Salaries used to be a fairly secretive issue between the employer and the employee, but now there is far more information available and it is easier to find out what people are paid. But the way people are paid has become far more complicated as it is not just a direct relation to the money they take home.

People clearly think that their federal government is more secretive than state or local governments. And they are probably right. It has become more difficult to get information out of the federal government.

The most secretive administration in history continues to stonewall the American public with non-answers to vital questions about their most important civil liberties and personal freedoms,

You're asking the most cunning, secretive and diabolical type of felon to be part of the honor system. It's always been befuddling to me.

It's a great place to be gay online because no one knows who you are, where you live. They only know what you tell them. Online, you can lie. It's very easy to make up a whole different person online because you have a fake name and you can be really secretive and deceitful about it.

For me, graffiti writers were always the fascinating eccentrics of hip-hop culture. What they do is secretive by definition, and not remunerative in any way.

It's been an animal that's been largely ignored and gone unnoticed over the years. It is a very secretive animal that has just disappeared quietly.

Every time you make a return they swipe your license and if you make too many returns that return is denied. They are very secretive about how many returns you can make before they say no, no, no.

I had some experience when I joined 'The Sopranos' in the last season. My character married Christopher, and everyone loved Adriana. I knew what it was like to join a very beloved, secretive show and following a very iconic character.

In simple terms criminals use vehicles. If you want to commit a crime, you're going to use a vehicle. There is nothing secretive about it and we don't want it to be secret, because we want people to feel safer, to see that they are protected.

He's secretive by nature. It's a dumb thing for officials to do, especially someone as experienced as Cheney. Just imagine what Jon Stewart, Jay Leno and David Letterman are going to do to him for days. It's a self-inflicted wound.

Smooth and ordered on the outside; roiling and chaotic and desperately secretive underneath, but not noticeably so, never noticeably so.

Lechery is secretive, but must finally reveal itself to at least one.

Wizards are a secretive lot.

And indeed that you never had the impression there was never anything unusual or secretive about this? Correct.

People are very secretive - secret even from themselves.

I want to unfold. I don’t want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.