Top 77 Anonymity Quotes

Human beings are not meant to lose their anonymity and privacy.

I suppose I am interested in women plus anonymity plus disappearance.

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.

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.

Several authoritarian regimes reportedly propose to ban anonymity from the web, making it easier to find and arrest dissidents. At Google, we see and feel the dangers of the government-led net crackdown. We operate in about 150 countries around the globe.

I really value my anonymity and privacy.

A lot of young people have not a clue what being famous entails. When you lose your anonymity you can’t walk down the street without people looking at you.

A writer is supposed to have anonymity.

The coalition government made it clear from the outset that it would proceed with defendant anonymity in rape cases only if the evidence justifying it was clear and sound. In the absence of any such finding, it has reached the conclusion that the proposal does not stand on its merits.

I’ve noticed being back in football that, after some anonymity, people recognise you again. It’s a pain in the neck.

New York offers people the anonymity to be themselves without judgment.

For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.

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.

I find it difficult to believe that Redditors don’t understand that anonymity online is merely a facade; indeed, it’s probably one of the reasons that revealing the identity of pseudonymous Redditors is looked on as such a huge betrayal.

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

I have always been reasonably anonymous, but I suppose that has gone with the success of ‘Homeland.’ I feel a lot more visible, which is good and bad. Good because I am getting recognition, but I am slightly apprehensive because I always enjoyed my anonymity.

Ever since I’ve been blessed with success, I’ve struggled a little with anonymity and even family. I’ve had people calling asking for money, and I have to ask them first, ‘Are you working? Have you been trying to help yourself?’ Then I feel like I can help.

In New York, the currency is money. You have money, and you get anonymity.

I’d love to spend more time on the Isle of Man. I love the anonymity of putting on a boiler suit and going down to buy parts for the compressor. And Norman Wisdom’s a neighbour; I salute him occasionally.

It’s nice to have some anonymity and still be low key.

It must be odd, being recognizable. I would hate to lose that anonymity.

I mean, I don’t want to sound – of course it’s very nice, people come up and say appreciative things about my work. But the loss, in terms of privacy and anonymity, is no small thing to me.

I learned that if you can proceed with a level of anonymity while still pursuing the thing you love, that’s the dream.

I wanted to have the adoration of John Lennon but have the anonymity of Ringo Starr. I didn’t want to be a frontman. I just wanted to be back there and still be a rock and roll star at the same time.

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.

People reveal so much of their mental processes online, simply because the psychological effect of anonymity just means that a whole raft of inhibitions are left alone when people log on.

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

The Internet made fame wack and anonymity cool.

It must be odd, being recognisable. I would hate to lose that anonymity. It happened for a while with ‘Spooks.’ No one notices me now.

In my work, I want to convince people that I’m that character. If they know everything about Lesley Manville – private life, all of that stuff – it doesn’t help. So the kind of anonymity I enjoy is key.

Anonymity would be a fantastic umbrella. I don’t like intrusion.

Anonymity breeds meanness.

There are simply more young people than there ever were. You get this feeling of strength. Also, large numbers can be a drawback, making it difficult to lose one’s anonymity.

Everyone talks about how the anonymity of the Internet allows people to behave badly, but I think it’s the other way around, that the anonymity removes the ‘self’ from the people we’re talking to online. Other people lose their humanity in our eyes. The system is set up to dehumanize.

But anonymity is very important to me, and I don’t want to be recognized in public more than I already am.

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

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

In the early 2000s, people expected that anonymity on the Internet would be positive for the development of democracy in South Korea. In a Confucian culture like South Korea’s, hierarchy can block the free exchange of opinions in face-to-face situations. The web offered a way around that.

Renowned people from all fields receive unnecessary flak so often. Anonymity is misused, and it is a terrible thing to want to break somebody’s spirit.

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

It’s nice to be recognized, but at the same time, there are always consequences. You may get fame, but you lose anonymity. You lose a certain sense of who you are.

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.

I’ve been acting for a long time, and I’ve done a lot of things, and I’ve been maintaining my anonymity pretty well. I get recognized once a week, at most, here and there, so I’m reluctant to give that up.

I’m incredibly ambitious, but I feel I’ve got a fantastic career, and I love the anonymity. I love that no one knows who I am.

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.

Social media’s greatest assets – anonymity, ‘virality,’ interconnectedness – are also its main weaknesses.

My anonymity is something I treasure.

People feel they can say nasty things and have anonymity behind the net – as they did with all the nasty comments about me – without fear of recrimination.

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.

Anonymity breeds irresponsibility.

I’ve been acting for 27 years, and anonymity has always been a part of what I do. Of course you get recognised every now and again, but ‘Homeland’ pushed me into a completely different strata, and that took me by surprise.

In all big cities the style of life is the same. Same endless array of restaurants; same big museums with the usual suspects; same anonymity, which can be thrilling when you’re young but which I found got tiresome.

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.

I went from unknown to having no anonymity.

I do my work and do the best I can. I’m quite happy with my anonymity. All I can ever hope for is that I continue to do great work that will be remembered, and I leave my imprint so that my son can say proudly, ‘That’s my dad!’

I like my anonymity – that when I meet people they don’t know me.

The grand jury process is secretive for a reason, to protect the safety and anonymity of all the grand jurors, witnesses, and innocent persons involved in the proceedings.

To be sure, anonymity online has it uses and is very important. Governments hoover up people’s telephone and e-mail records without oversight, and companies track astonishingly granular personal information.

Losing my anonymity in this world I think is something that I find terrifying.

The trick to acting is not to show off; it’s to think the thoughts of the character. I was lucky because when I started acting, it was doing jobs above pubs. I learned to act in anonymity, so by the time people saw me, I knew what I was doing. I was crap for years, but no one saw me being crap. It’s a trade you learn.