Quotes About Anonymity

With acting, there is a level of anonymity which is conducive to your profession. There are examples of very public people who are on the cover of every celebrity magazine but can't open a film.

I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films.

I think most writers, in a sense, have this desire to disappear, to be absolutely anonymous, to be removed in some way: that comes out of the need to be a writer.

Facebook has a rule that you're not supposed to be anonymous.

I would love to make my music and be completely anonymous, but that doesn't work. You can't have success and be faceless.

I wanted to play Zapruder, as he is a man you really don't know much about: a faceless, anonymous figure.

I like people-watching and fading into crowds.

A couple of people thought I looked familiar, but it was like, No.

I don't put myself out there, so people aren't necessarily familiar with me or my face.

With technology tracking us everywhere we go, 'cosplay' might become our best defense against surveillance.

When my dad left public life, I was 13 years old. I went through my teen years and into adulthood in relative anonymity. After my dad's funeral, I was suddenly recognizable to people I passed on the street.

If people knew that Burzum was just the band of some teenager, that would sort of ruin the magic, and for that reason, I felt that I needed to be anonymous. So I used a pseudonym, Count Grishnackh, and on the debut album, I used a photo of me that didn't look like me at all to make Burzum itself seem more out-of-this world and to confuse people.

One thing Telegram does is make mass surveillance impossible.

Most people I was at school with, if they saw me on telly, wouldn't know I'd been at school with them.

In any artistic rendering of the city theme alienation is a constant. Given the anonymity the city provides, it could hardly be otherwise. Artists, especially writers, have recognised this dichotomy, and that cities have always proved a source of freedom by providing anonymity, notwithstanding the estrangement and isolation that goes with it. Indeed, the city's impetus towards modernity is to be found in that narrow zone between loss of community and discovery of self.

Best place to hide was in a crowd.

Strike wondered whether Yasmin had lived in a virtual world of anonymous people for so long that probability and plausibility had fled from her reasoning processes.

Confidentially I prefer not to have it known where I am.

Reacher liked New York more than most places. He liked the casual indifference of it all and the frantic hustle and the total anonymity.

He had seen the herd instinct at work, the anonymity, the removal of inhibition, the implied permissions of collective action. He had seen that an angry crowd was the most dangerous animal on the face of the earth.

No more fiendish punishment could be devised, were such a thing physically possible, than that one should be turned loose in society and remain absolutely unnoticed.

I don't want to be famous famous. I'm happy on the second tier, where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can still go out to the movies without being recognized.

No longer anonymous, but named, identified, the procession marched on slowly; on through an opening in the wall, slowly on into the Social Predestination Room.

A voler essere precisi, Novecento non esisteva nemmeno, per il mondo: non c'era città, parrocchia, ospedale, galera, squadra di baseball che avesse scritto da qualche parte il suo nome. Non aveva patria, non aveva data di nascita, non aveva famiglia. Aveva otto anni: ma ufficialmente non era mai nato.