Quotes About Anonymity

People abuse for no reason, because they can do it anonymously. There's a lot of negativity, criticism and hatred as an artist grows.

I'm nobody, who are you?

I want to be normal. I really want anonymity.

When I'm on tour, people see me in one way, but in normal life I doubt people even recognize me.

No one knows who I am in Australia. They don't even know I am Australian, because 'The Secret Circle' is on in Australia, and I'm sure everyone's like, 'Oh, she's American. She's from, like, North Carolina.' Like, nobody knows me in Australia, I'm just telling you.

I like to go around, and people not knowing who I am.

Some days, for some reason, I can't go anywhere, and I'm like, 'That was a mistake,' and other days no one will even notice me.

I really do miss being able to go through life a little less noticed.

I didn't like the attention and that's what's awesome about Rice. I would go to class, walk around campus and do my thing. No one even noticed who I was.

Everyone goes To L.A. to be noticed. I went there to be completely invisible.

I can headline a festival and then literally, 10 minutes later, be walking around, and nobody notices.

The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are.

I quite like sort of being able to walk down the street with no one noticing.

I have no problem with people coming up to me and telling me they enjoy my work, what's weird is when you sense people noticing you, nudging each other, and you're not anonymous any more. You just feel exposed.

Every now and then, someone will stop me and say, 'Do I know you?' And I just say, 'Nope.'

As a model, only a limited number of people knew about me.

Obscurity is just obscurity. There's no romance in obscurity.

Obviously you don't want to be anonymous, but you don't want everyone to know your life.

I have a special pair of poop shoes under my desk. Whenever I need to drop a deuce, I slip them on and scurry to the restroom, and no one ever knows it's me. Like, if I'm wearing Louboutins that day, and my producer sees Earth shoes in the stall....well, you get the idea. It was truly a lightbulb moment when that came to me.

Where there is a true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity.

With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful about the way they wrote. All that anyone would see were the words, their ideas. Every citizen started equal, on the nets.

The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.

He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.

You might think that fingerprints and numbers give you a distinct identity. But soon there will be no identity so distinct as simply to have none.