Quotes About Anonymity

But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting.

Suppose you endow a charity, or university. You could put your name on it, but you could also endow it in honor of some teacher you had. People differ. There are people who prefer to be anonymous in their giving, or to put somebody else's name on it.

The happiest ones are those who have a character which would prefer their services to be unknown to all generations.

It's been my goal to work as much as possible, and be as unknown as possible.

I've been working pretty solidly for a long time: Not that anyone would notice, you know what I mean? It's been my goal to work as much as possible, and be as unknown as possible.

I'm not unknown, yet I'm not super famous where I can't go anywhere.

You do think, if you have your druthers, 'I want to sort of be, not anonymous, but unknown'. But you don't have your druthers in life, do you?

Sometimes I get a little exhausted by shows or movies that are constantly throwing famous people on. And I find it so much more exciting to not have that when I'm watching something. I think it allows you to get more lost in something and also to bring more attention to more unknown or less recognizable people.

I went from unknown to having no anonymity.

Like everyone else, when you start out you must begin from a position of being completely unknown. No option.

Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known.

I want to stay below the radar and make good films. I have to be careful; I don't want my life to change. I really don't want to be a movie star.

I do like to fly under the radar. When I walk around town, the only people I want to recognise me and call me by my name are the folks at Starbucks.

I don't really want people to see me. I'm not into stardom.

I could be ordering ham at the deli, and someone will turn around and look at me and kind of stare. They'll just look at me like, 'I know I know your voice, and I know I know your face.'

You start realising as you get older that there are some kids who don't know who you are.

I went to school for me - I didn't do it to make any sort of statement. So the very first year I was in school, I wasn't there under my own name. It was very incognito.

While incarcerated, I had no bank statements, no bills, no credit history. In our interconnected world of big data, I appeared to be no different than a deceased person.

I don't like having people pick me out on the street. I don't like the status - good, bad or indifferent. I don't like it. I want my private life back, and I'm never going to have it.

I definitely stayed away from Twitter. I didn't want to be geotagged or anything.

Nobody knows me, and I hope that it stays like this.

Computer hackers do not need to know each other's real names, or even live on the same continent, to steal millions in mere hours.

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth — anonymously and posthumously.

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously.