Anonymity Quotes

The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
Virginia Woolf

Women, Truth, Often

Fame really works against actors, in a way, because our anonymity is a wonderful thing for us.
Jeff Bridges

Wonderful, Against, Fame

The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways, posing questions about how we should respond to people when all that we know about them is what we have learned through a medium that permits all kinds of anonymity and deception.
Peter Singer

Politics, Freedom, Through

I'm not a kid. You don't get in this business for anonymity. It's not like I have posters of myself on the wall, but at the same time, I'm kind of ready for a little bit of it, but I worry for my little one, and my family - their privacy. That's what I'm more protective of.
Hugh Jackman

Family, Time, Business

When you're playing an icon like Wolverine, it's sometimes better to be someone that nobody knows because they don't know what to expect. I don't mind a little bit of anonymity; it helps on the subway.
Hugh Jackman

Mind, Someone, Sometimes

With acting, there is a level of anonymity which is conducive to your profession. There are examples of very public people who are on the cover of every celebrity magazine but can't open a film.
Sienna Miller

Acting, Film, Public

We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.
Jock Sturges

I want to be normal. I really want anonymity.
Emma Watson

I'm a little hibernating animal. Anonymity is one of my favorite things. I mean, that's why I moved to New York when I was like 18, because there, there are just so many people that there's no one and you're just lost. You're completely invisible and I find that very liberating.
Ani DiFranco

Lost, Mean, Find

I try to go throughout my daily life just as if nothing has changed, but you don't have much anonymity anymore, which feels really good. People come up, and say hi and they enjoy your work.
Adam Lambert

Life, Work, Good

Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
Gary Oldman

Life, Live, Enjoy

You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they're going to write in whatever clever manner they desire.
Kim Basinger

Opinion, Lose, Whatever

Way before Watergate, senior administration officials hid behind anonymity.
Bob Woodward

Before, Behind, Senior

I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity.
Harrison Ford

Life, Others, Wanted

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.
Igor Stravinsky

Life, Time, God

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

I remember Michael saying, 'Rich and famous? It's much better to be just rich'. I didn't quite get it to begin with. But he's right. You lose anonymity. I say to my family that you've no idea until you lose it how precious anonymity is.
Julie Walters

Family, Famous, Saying

No one can train you to be famous. How do you deal with the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy? You have to be disciplined.
Wesley Snipes

Famous, Deal, Loss

Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights.
Stephen Gardiner

Today, Plans, Following

I've been able to make films over the past 10 years but still maintain my anonymity.
Chris Evans

Past, Able, Films

This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.
Carroll Quigley

Great, Power, Knowledge

Most writers like to maintain some sort of anonymity. For me, making videos was an assault.
Sheryl Crow

Making, Writers, Assault

The freedom to connect to the world anywhere at anytime brings with it the threat of unscrupulous predators and criminals who mask their activities with the anonymity the Internet provides to its users.
Mike Fitzpatrick

Freedom, Internet, Mask

For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.
Michelle Pfeiffer

Life, Famous, Hard

I miss the anonymity that comes with New York because everyone around you is so immersed in their own journey.
Jordana Brewster

Around, Everyone, Miss

I tried to be as thorough as I can, but there is a responsibility that we all have, especially with something like AA which is dependant on anonymity. Once you start banging on about it the whole time, you are potentially damaging the whole concept of it.
Jack Dee

Time, Start, Whole

Losing my anonymity in this world I think is something that I find terrifying.
Alex O'Loughlin

Find, Losing, Terrifying

I don't like to go out to parties or clubbing, and I kind of like my anonymity.
Matthew Morrison

Parties, Clubbing

I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films.
Frank Ocean

Films, Directors

I struggled with being in the public eye, losing my anonymity when my star rose quickly in the late 90's. But I need the challenge of showing up and getting up there to spill my guts and connect with my loyal folks.
Paula Cole

Challenge, Losing, Getting

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