Unbearable Lightness by Portia de Rossi

"My mother had always wanted me to marry Tom Cruise. Not just any famous actor, Tom Cruise in particular. He was the living image of the perfect movie star who seemed to separate his private life from his public life--a man of mystery, a private man. Choosing Tom Cruise as an example was perhaps another way of my mother reinforcing that there was a payoff to being private. 'There's a reason they call it a private life,' I'd often say to interviewers. But there's a fine line between being private and being ashamed."
- Portia de Rossi, Unbearable Lightness, p. 256