Pierre Omidyar Quotes

No one recognizes me. And I hope that I can always go out without being recognized. Maybe that limits you in some way but I like to be able to pull my hair back in a ponytail and get groceries without anyone noticing.

I can finish a show and walk through the audience without being recognized.

I am quite happy that I can still walk down the street every day in a pair of jogging bottoms and my woolly hat, and no one knows who I am. That's nice.

I don't feel like a pop star. I like being able to live my life the same as my mates. I don't get recognised much.

I can walk around relatively anonymously.

When I started out in this business, I really wanted to become iconic, but I'm glad that didn't happen. I like to do things like travel on public transport unnoticed.

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.

When I'm at home, I want to be a normal person. I don't want to hear, 'Can I have your autograph?'

I don't have to walk around in hats or find remote places to go for lunch! I don't get recognised that often.

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

The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet.

I have had a few people recognise me in public. But I wouldn't like everybody to recognise me. I can still walk across the street and not be noticed.

People sorta know my face, but I can still go out to the supermarket, and nobody pays much attention.

I really do miss being able to go through life a little less noticed.

I appreciate my music is famous, but I'd rather my face wasn't so that I can just live a normal life.

If I am out in the street or buying bread or taking a taxi, no one knows who I am.

If I'm out shopping, in Topshop or wherever, I'm never spotted. In fact, I'm usually asked if I have a student card. No-one seems to notice me, they're oblivious to who I am even in Scotland, and I'm very happy to be able to blend in with the crowd.

People do recognize me. I walk around with sunglasses, and I think I'm hidden, but they see me.

I've had somebody say, "I want you at my wedding, but I don't want you to pull focus, so wear jeans!" Losing my anonymity is something that's proving to be very challenging.... It's good for your soul to walk around unnoticed; there's so much you can't do when everybody knows who you are. And I so miss those little things.

I almost never get recognised in the street.

But I just wonder what it would be like to be able to go places without people recognizing me.

I get recognized now and again, but the paparazzi aren't following me around. I get to go to the shop and buy bread and milk, and no one worries me.

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

I like the level of fame that I have. You get nice tables in restaurants sometimes, but fame isn't something that I find comfortable.

I find it slightly uncomfortable to see my face on a bus or a poster. I like just being known by my friends and family.