Quotes About Anonymity

A state employee too frightened to come forward. A reformed lawyer so spooked that he went to court in another state and changed his name. An ex-con with no real address.

the feeling that I was becoming no one at all

seventy-five Michelin inspectors cover all of Europe and many fewer the rest of the world. They eat out on 240 days a year, file more than 1,000 reports, and must order the maximum number of courses and always clear their plates. To remain anonymous they never return to the same place for several years, and never reveal what they do—even to their parents.

No one will even know.

The ability to fail quietly without having that failure associated with your name/identity allows for more experimentation and limit pushing.

Sometimes you want to go for a walk and you don't want to be watched. You just want to be anonymous and blend in. Especially when I travel, I feel that way, because I can't really go out and see a city the way other people can and I miss out on a lot.

An agent named Dillon Koch picked them up at the Staten Island terminal in a Chevy Equinox, a small gray SUV picked, Koch said, for its anonymity. "You look at it, and you don't see it," he said.

If a man ordered a beer milkshake he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known.

And, like most shy men, he satisfied his normal needs in the anonymity of the prostitute. There is great safety for a shy man with a whore. Having been paid for, and in advance, she has become a commodity, and a shy man can be gay with her and even brutal to her. Also, there is none of the horror of the possible turndown which shrivels the guts of timid men.

I was told that since my photograph was as widely distributed as my publisher could make it, I would find it impossible to move about without being recognized. Let me say in advance that in over ten thousand miles, in thirty-four states, I was not recognized even once.

They've not forgotten him: worse, they never heard of him.

I had done 25 motion pictures prior to The Partridge Family and nobody knew my name.

I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know three quarters of the people in the building. We live in the same square-footage and I wouldn't know who they were.

I don't want to say anything about my kids . . . but I go to PTA meetings under an assumed name!

Can you still have any famous last words if you're somebody nobody knows?

I want to be famous so I can be humble about being famous. What good is my humility when I am stuck in this obscurity?

I'd prefer to go under the radar and just do the acting without being famous for it.

Everyone has three lives; a public life, a private life, and a secret life.

I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God

It's a simple domestic tale, about a girl who has problems getting married, and how she deals with her relations and friends. Miss Dalrymple has quite an eye for character; I'd swear some of her people must be drawn from life, and it's no wonder she wants to remain anonymous.

Does the work of a girl always have to be so anonymous?

Quid nomen tibi est? She was not about to offer her name up to a stranger. It was almost the only thing she possessed that nobody had stolen.

True greatness is anonymous. Therefore the greatest man is nobody.

No puedo figurarme a Dios como una gran sociedad anónima.