William Faulkner Quotes

It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless, no refuse save the printed books. [] It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: he made the books and he died.

People tend to remember my performances, not me.

It's been my goal to work as much as possible, and be as unknown as possible.

I want them to forget me.

Everyone goes To L.A. to be noticed. I went there to be completely invisible.

I tell people all the time that it would be good if they forget about me next week, that they don't even mention my name anymore.

The life of fame was never meant for me.

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

I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.

On the whole, I think I spent a lot of high school just trying to stay under the radar: I don't think I was all that memorable.

I would like to be forgotten. What's so good about being remembered?

I've obviously got one of those faces that people can forget.

I don't want my writing to be recognized.

The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.

Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.

I didn't want to be known. People say, 'I didn't want to toil in obscurity.' I like toiling in obscurity.

I can't remember anything I ever wrote.

I suspect that a lot of studio executives still think of me as 'what's-his-name'.

He is remembered chiefly as the man about whom all is forgotten.

In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.

You start realising as you get older that there are some kids who don't know who you are.

People probably won't even remember I played for the Clippers.

I have no desire to be famous, definitely not.

I didn't have any aspirations to be famous at all.

I'm one of those people who would be OK with fading back into the background a little bit.