Top 151 Anonymous Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Anonymous Quotes from famous people such as Mia Farrow, Paula Radcliffe, Yochai Benkler, Rebecca MacKinnon, Christopher Wylie, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I want a big career, a big man, and a big life. You hav

I want a big career, a big man, and a big life. You have to think big – that’s the only way to get it… I just couldn’t stand being anonymous.
Mia Farrow
Yeah, ideally, I’d probably wish to be more anonymous. But scrutiny and success go together. And I want to be successful.
Paula Radcliffe
Seeing Anonymous primarily as a cybersecurity threat is like analyzing the breadth of the antiwar movement and 1960s counterculture by focusing only on the Weathermen.
Yochai Benkler
Facebook has a rule that you’re not supposed to be anonymous.
Rebecca MacKinnon
I didn’t fully appreciate the impact of what I helped create until 2016 happened. Very soon after that, I started working for The Guardian, originally as an anonymous source.
Christopher Wylie
You live in an apartment in New York, and you think all the time about like, ‘I don’t even know who’s living above me.’ There are all these anonymous people in that window or that window or that window, and everybody has their own interesting life that I know nothing about.
Marielle Heller
I don’t think I can remain anonymous for that much longer. It was fun while it lasted. Very fun.
Lukas Forchhammer
Anonymous is not an organization. It is an idea, a zeitgeist, coupled with a set of social and technical practices.
Yochai Benkler
The only truly anonymous donor is the guy who knocks up your daughter.
Lenny Bruce
I’m not on Facebook. I have a sort of anonymous account that I check, like, once every six months every time Facebook rolls out a new feature.
Evgeny Morozov
Since the advent of the Internet – more recently compounded by blogging – everyone can be a published voice. Any cowardly, anonymous anger-monger can have an audience of thousands. That doesn’t make them a journalist any more than my throwing an onion and a few carrots into a pot of boiling water makes me Julia Child.
Lynda Resnick
You know the greatest thing about working on ‘Fallon?’ I get so many anonymous gifts.
Questlove
When employees feel anonymous in the eyes of their managers, they simply cannot love their work, no matter how much money they make or how wonderful their jobs seem to be.
Patrick Lencioni
The only place I am recognized all the time is in L.A. and otherwise, it’s only about once a day. I feel pretty anonymous.
Natalie Portman
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.
Madonna Ciccone
Many regard freemasonry as an 18th-century boys’ club, all funny aprons and comedic handshakes. That’s good for the masons themselves, but it’s our mistake. The most senior figures are listed, but surely that’s a sop because, all the while, the vast majority of lay members, ‘the brotherhood,’ remain anonymous.
Dawn Foster
To get pregnant, I have resorted to artificial insemination. I want to openly talk about it because this is an opportunity to show my gratitude to all those anonymous donors who help many women to meet, like me, the dream of their life.
Monica Cruz
It’s that anonymous person who meanders through the streets and feels what’s happening there, feels the pulse of the people, who’s able to create.
Cyndi Lauper
What I would love to see is art that explicitly addresses not personal intimacies but anonymous intimacies: the vast collections of facts about you and me that now exist in giant server banks.
Russell Smith
Exactly who does use the safe-haven laws is difficult to discern. Most states make no effort to study the cases or compile any data, and the anonymous nature of the process makes outside research nearly impossible.
Wil S. Hylton
In terms of the most unique thing we do socially, my vote goes to something we invented alongside cities – we have lots of anonymous interactions and interactions with strangers. That has shaped us enormously.
Robert Sapolsky
I know it’s dangerous to take on bloggers. They can go after you every day, all day long, and anonymous people can chime in, too.
Jerry Saltz
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
Virginia Woolf
Sean Hannity is a hypocrite!He’s blasting anonymous sources and saying journalism is dead when he uses an anonymous source in the form of President Trump.
Brian Stelter
My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.
Mercedes McCambridge
You do think, if you have your druthers, ‘I want to sort of be, not anonymous, but unknown’. But you don’t have your druthers in life, do you?
Richard Greenberg
Don’t get me wrong: I love having my own song and being the center of attention, but I also love being part of the group and making the show work in a more anonymous way.
Alice Ripley
When I had dark hair I definitely felt that I was more anonymous.
Naomi Watts
Most of the time I live a fully anonymous life, which is the way I like it.
Holly Hunter
Handwritten political posters – often composed in an artless and unadorned style, usually just words on plain white paper – were ubiquitous in South Korea in the 1970s and 1980s and were one of the few outlets available for expressing political views. Most posters were anonymous and put up under the cover of night.
Kim Young-ha
Suppose you endow a charity, or university. You could put your name on it, but you could also endow it in honor of some teacher you had. People differ. There are people who prefer to be anonymous in their giving, or to put somebody else’s name on it.
Martha Nussbaum
The fact that I stay anonymous means I can exhibit wher

The fact that I stay anonymous means I can exhibit wherever I want. No one knows my name, so it’s easy for me to travel.
JR
The role of money in politics is a major problem and particularly the role of unchecked anonymous money.
Jon Ossoff
If I changed my name, everyone would have just known that I changed my name. If I had been anonymous, it would have felt pretentious. It would seem like I’m trying to dodge something. I love my family and have such respect for their work, for their career and talents, and I’m very proud to be connected with them.
Maya Hawke
I’m not particularly a career-oriented guy. I’m lucky. I can make really interesting films much of the time with interesting people yet be anonymous, have a private life. But, I’d like to have the choice of the better roles.
Aidan Quinn
I think I’m less anonymous than I was.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Anonymous comments? You’re not in the arena, man. If you can’t say it to me in person in front of my kids, don’t say it.
Brene Brown
At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn’t enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It’s not competitive with men. It’s a complementary contribution.
Barbara Hepworth
As I’ve stated prior, I have no concerns with a grand juror sharing their thoughts or opinions about me and my office’s involvement in the matter involving the death of Ms. Breonna Taylor. However, I have concerns with a grand juror seeking to make anonymous and unlimited disclosures about the grand jury proceedings.
Daniel Cameron
We’ve learned quickly that the Web is far more pseudonymous than anonymous: online, our names have simply been changed to a number, an I.P. address, protocol, and code.
Kevin Young
Most designers don’t dress in fashion. They dress in an anonymous way so that people are just judging their work.
Louise Wilson
You can find, occasionally, some absolutely fantastic things in hunting shops. I’ve got one jacket that I just happened across which is a kind of unwashed leather – completely anonymous but absolutely special.
Norman Foster
Even if a university should turn out to be another version of a school, I had decided I could lose myself afterwards as an anonymous particle of the London I already loved.
Patrick White
I’ve got a poem that’s in a lot of international anthologies called ‘After the Anonymous Swedish’ and I thought, ‘Well, I’m a Swede. I can make up a Swedish poem.’ It turned out pretty good.
Jim Harrison
It’s been really hard to watch the news of this Anonymous and LulzSec stuff because most of what they do – defacing Web sites and running denial-of-service attacks – is not serious. It’s really just nuisance.
Dmitri Alperovitch
You know, it’s really strange now with the Internet, with everyone having an unsolicited, anonymous opinion.
Jeff Daniels
To hide behind a computer and an anonymous persona to spew hate at another person is despicable.
Heather Dubrow
It’s a very nice kind of quasi-fame being a writer, because you remain largely anonymous and you can have a private life, which I really cherish. I don’t like to be in the public light all that much. I don’t crave the whole fame thing at all.
Khaled Hosseini
I wanted to learn how to blog, so I was playing around with WordPress and Typepad and Blogger, starting all these different blogs just to learn how these things work. I had a fake Sergey Brin blog, an anonymous, fake Ph.D kind of blog. I did it for, like, I don’t know, six weeks, and the Steve Jobs one just caught on.
Daniel Lyons
Despite the barrage of information about me that is publicly available, I live a surprisingly private and anonymous life.
Hasan M. Elahi
In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence.
Natsuo Kirino
After having a career in Spain for eight years, I went back to being anonymous again, having to prove myself to the industry and myself, to prove I was capable of acting in a different language. It was a good challenge, and I can’t complain.
Ana de Armas
I don’t really get off on the anonymous love of strangers, which I think a lot of actors do. They’re lacking something in their own personal lives, so they want the adoration of autographs and all that stuff.
John C. Reilly
There have been so many incredible moments since the start of this organization. One that stands out specifically is when an anonymous businessman triple-matched our donation to Memorial Sloan Kettering after our NYC event.
Yael Cohen