Personal Anonymity Quotes

I always hated how I looked on camera. I never put a face to my music, which actually made the music that much more mysterious.

I don't think a lot of people know personally who I am.

When Ava Gardner get in a taxi, the driver knows at once she’s Ava Gardner. It’s the same for Lana Turner or Elizabeth Taylor, but not for me. I’m never Grace Kelly, I’m always someone who looks like Grace Kelly.

I would rather my films be well-known than I be well-known.

Sometimes I'm fascinated with how famous my work could be while I'm not so famous.

The Christopher Robin who appears in so many of the poems is not always me. This was where my name, so totally useless to me personally, came into its own: it was a wonderful name for writing poetry round.

Despite the barrage of information about me that is publicly available, I live a surprisingly private and anonymous life.

I try to stay out of the public eye as much as possible because I want people to be able to watch my films and not be distracted.

I'm very, very used to feeling anonymous, you know?

People very rarely know my real name but recognise me as characters from my shows, such as 'Last Tango In Halifax.'

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

Acting is about giving something away, handing yourself over to whatever role you are asked to play. I'm not hiding or escaping or seeking anonymity. I reserve the right not to have a rubber stamp on my forehead saying this is who I am. Because who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.

Some men seem remarkable to the world in whom neither their wives nor their valets saw anything extraordinary. Few men have been admired by their servants.

I don't date. It's hard to date when you're at home. Because nobody knows you.

There are only a few places that I go where people recognize me anyway. I have to be at the right place, in the right city. It's not really that much of an issue.

The other day a woman came up to me and said, Didn't I see you on television? I said, I don't know. You can't see out the other way.

As an author, I don't really think too much about being a celebrity. It's not like being a movie star or a TV star. It's not as if people recognize me when I walk down the street. That hardly ever happens, and it's just as well. But it is great when people know my books, when I walk through an airport and see them in the bookstore, or when I see someone reading a book on a plane or on a train, and it's something I've written. That's a wonderful feeling.

You go to a theater, you're in a darkened room, and you watch someone that you don't really know how many children they have or what their father's nickname might be; you don't have references and databases and rumors and half-truths - you're just transported by their storytelling.

Young or old, a writer sends a book into the world, not himself.

I felt like onstage I have to have a certain amount of anonymity, like, personal anonymity, to feel loose and free. When you're up there with people who've known you for a decade, and you make a bad joke and you hear the cackling behind the drums, it's hard to get lost in the moment.

My name is well known, but my image is not, because the image presented to the public is very twisted and far from reality. So, not many recognize me on the street. And I don't usually walk around in the streets, either.

I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.