Syd Quotes

I just want to be a wallflower. Nondescript. Just not anything. I don't want to see me.

I never get recognised. I must have one of those forgettable faces, ha! And that's not a bad thing.

I think it's important to have had at least a few years of obscurity, where people treat you like everybody else.

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

I'm just a guy. There's nothing special about me.

I was a regular dork. I was a kid who was scrawny and all that, and probably kind of dumb or something. I wasn't unordinary; I wasn't extraordinary.

I was a nothing kid. Not particularly good. Not particularly bad.

Beige curtains... there's nothing wrong with them. You're not like, 'Ew, gross! Beige curtains!' You just don't notice them either way. They're just, like, fine.

… the commonest little dog I have ever seen, without one sign of distinction

Mediocrity is obscurity.

When I go back home, I am just Jess, no-one special.

I'm like every waitress in every diner; I'm like every mom driving her kids to school. I'm nothing special at all.

I don't consider myself to be an extraordinary person.

I don't feel famous personally, and I feel like when most people get to know me, they're like, 'Oh, she's just the same as everybody else.'

I don't want to be a VIP. I want to be an LIP, a Less Important Person.

I didn't want to be the best at anything; I just wanted to blend in. And that was kind of my existence throughout my family experiences at home of just kind of blending in in the background through my other siblings, which was easy to do.

I like to keep a low profile.

I've always been more drawn to being normal than being famous.

Most people don't know who the hell I am. But that's not really important.

I am not looking for fame. I prefer to have a normal life.

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

I'm not special. No, I'm a normal player.

I'm not a celebrity. I'm a guy doing a job.

I'm just the same guy... I don't need to be a celebrity or a superstar.

If you were to try and pick him out of a group of boys, you’d be wrong. He’d be the other one. Over at the side. The one your eye slipped over.