Robert Taylor Quotes

I really liked it best when I was a nobody.

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

No one ever recognizes me.

I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung.

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

I was not a name; I was not a face. I was not going to finance a movie. No one was going to come and pay tickets to see me.

Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.

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

I went to school, but nobody really noticed me. I just came to school, didn't dress up or anything - just a ghost. I just worked out and went out to the field and went the baseball route. That's how I've always been my whole life.

It's continuously humbling to work hard, you know? As long as you've got a good work ethic and a sense of humor, I don't think anybody can become too much of an egoist under those circumstances.

The people in Dominica and the small communities where I were had no idea who I was, and there's no better security than that.

I'm a workaholic. I've been doing my job for a long time.

I rarely get recognised. It's always a shock when someone notices me. I always think they must be confusing me with someone else.

I feel I'm anonymous in my work. When I look at the pictures, I never see myself; they aren't self-portraits. Sometimes I disappear.

I love hard work. 'One Man, Two Guvnors' was so physically tiring I ached all the time, but I took a massive amount of pride in the fact that I only ever missed two shows.

I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.

It's hard being visible, so I've made myself invisible.

From my parents, I learned a very strong work ethic, and all of my brothers and sisters all worked from the earliest days of life right through to the present time.

Vin Scully has been my broadcasting idol for a long time. He is so humble - he has the exact same work ethic that he had 65 years ago. His family is what he cares about the most, and at the heart of his whole being is his marriage and kids.

I, sir, I just like to work. I'm humble.

I was overlooked long before anyone knew who I was.

For a long time, I'd work until 10 or 11. When I work, I'm on. I'm 'Magic.' I love it, but it takes a lot out of me.

I'm a below-the-radar girl. No one really knows anything about me.

I'd started working when I was 21 and had been very determined about my career, very focused, even as a little kid, so it was something I had been working at for a long time.

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