Unknown Status Quotes

I was a complete unknown when I did 'Karate Kid.' I'd just done a pilot for a TV show called 'Call to Glory.' And I sat down with John Avildsen and brought still pictures from the show. I brought pictures! At that point, I would've been happy to be in a dog-food commercial.

When I was coming up with the Hal Hartley films, I was cast as a no one. I had no name visibility. I was working at a downtown post-performance-art, avant garde theater company and doing a couple things on television. But I was a total unknown.

Nobody could've ever known I was positive because I didn't know.

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

I like my anonymity - that when I meet people they don't know me.

It's not like I would see anyone and be like, "Oh yes, that person looks like maybe I had an impact on them." I don't think I did. I don't think I ever was that well known, to have an impact. And I haven't seen comics that I go, "Oh, yes! That person is terribly unprepared, with their notebook, and going off on 50 tangents. There you are. That's me."

I'm safe where I'm at just being the guy where people go, 'That's a really good actor. What's his name again?' I liked being at that place.

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

When I did get into comic books, it was after a whole other career, and when I got into comic books, they didn't even know who I was.

I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada.

I'm not really often recognized - not really. Or if I am, nobody cares enough to come and tell me that they recognize me.

I am not a known face and a lot of people wouldn't recognise me if I walked into a room. But that's okay with me. I want people to recognize me through my work.

To remain unknown in this modern world: that, indeed, is real power.

The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

I don't know whether Mrs. Borden is out or in; I wish you would see if she is in her room.

When I'm on the red carpet, most people say, 'Who the hell is that?' It's downright embarrassing.

I don't think I'm any more unknown than any other possible candidate.