Jeff Gannon Quotes

No one in Switzerland knows me as the Swiss Machine, and that's good, because I don't like it.

Photographers and reporters are mostly after me. They want to know what I read and what I'm like and I don't really know myself, so how can I tell them?

So many people are on television that don't know me, and they're like experts on me.

I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.

I think I'm less anonymous than I was.

I hate it when people talk about Tony Curtis and say: 'His real name was Bernie Schwartz... ' That was just the name that he was given at birth. It's not the person he lived his life with, and became.

I don't want people to know who I am.

My friends call me Keith, but you can call me John.

There is a difference between using a made-up name and using real people as pseudonyms. People are not costumes you can wear. They are flesh and blood.

I used the name Jane Roe because I didn't want my personal name to be involved in it.

My real name was Thomas Jones Woodward, so I dropped the Woodward.

My life isn't tabloid-friendly.

If you're well-known, you're at the risk of becoming your own character. When you're alone, as a writer, you have to be unknown, putting it all on the paper.

Don't you dare print my first name. That would make me sound like a real country girl.

There's a reason I live in the Maine woods, where nobody knows what I do for a living. I think you can be better if someone who's coming to see you perform has no idea who you really are.

On the street, on the train - I pull my hat down, and nobody knows it's me. I always wanted the kind of fame that came with an off button.

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.

I make no special effort to conceal my surname online; the reason I do not use it is more because I dislike, even loathe it, than because I want to keep it a secret.

What I regret most after becoming a cartoonist is having used my real name. At first, I figured there was no way I'd sell anyhow, so I didn't even consider using a pen name.

Living in Finland as a singer of Nightwish, I'm used to having people around me all the time that know who I am. In the Netherlands, people never really knew or cared or whatever.

No one really has any idea about me. To me, what I give you is what happens onscreen, and past that, anything you're coming up with in your own head, you're creating in your own mind.

Pen names have always fascinated me, in part because I understand the professional and economic and even societal reasons to do so.

I was a very private person. I never had an open social media account. So, for me to walk down the street and have people say, 'Hey, Tan!' I turn around thinking, 'Do I know you?'

There was definitely a time where I really didn't want to be in the public eye, or have people know who I was and then they knew what my last name was, and you know, I've battled with that a little bit.

I don't want people talking about me, for good or bad.