I really do want to just be able to sit in the corner of the pub with my friends... to just be an actor and still go to the supermarket and not get bothered.
I'm happy to be the guy on the subway that people stare at and they just can't quite place it. I don't really like my life intruded upon too much. In a way, it's kind of nice to not be all that well known.
The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that people won't bother me.
Nothing should be noticed.
I won't go to places where you're going to find more attention. I go to the opposite.
I don't need to be vindicated, and I don't want attention.
Humility is not a trait I often associate with America.
I stay hidden. I'm sort of hard to find.
You need to keep something for yourself. As a writer, I feel that even more strongly. I feel like I need to be able to freely observe the world. That's the way I like to move through the world; I don't need to be the focus of attention. If I am, it impairs my ability to write and to do what I do.
I just kind of keep doing what I'm doing, keep plugging away, kind of hide behind closed doors sometimes, which is nice, kind of the way I'd like to keep it.
It seems to me that invisibility is the required provision of elegance. Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
I really do miss being able to go through life a little less noticed.
I spend most of my life not wanting to be found, and actually, I'm pretty good at it.
A good soul like a good body should be as unobtrusive as possible; in so far as it functions properly, it should not be noticed for good or for ill.
The French probably invented the very notion of discretion. It's not that they feel that what you don't know won't hurt you; they feel that what you don't know won't hurt them. To the French lying is simply talking.
When I'm not working I try to stay out of the public eye as much as possible.
I had led a private life and wanted to die a private death.
I'm not someone who enjoys being recognised too much.
I'll be in my bedroom, making no noise and pretending I'm not there.
I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.
If secrecy is made out of the same stuff that the rest of the world is made out of, then it's fundamentally visible, which means that secrecy can only fail in the first instance, in the sense that you cannot make something disappear.
I don't want people to know who I am.
Let us be careful to distinguish modesty, which is ever amiable, from reserve, which is only prudent.
Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too fast. The subject must forget about you. Then, however, you must be very quick.
Modesty is not one of my virtues.
