Tom Stoppard Quotes

I don't want to be known as somebody that everybody knows about.

I'm trying to remain unfamous.

I've never had much notoriety. It's fine with me.

I haven't had the whole 'famous' thing happen to me yet, and I hope I never will. I like to sneak away in the corners and hide a lot.

It's a very nice kind of quasi-fame being a writer, because you remain largely anonymous and you can have a private life, which I really cherish. I don't like to be in the public light all that much. I don't crave the whole fame thing at all.

I don't really want people to see me. I'm not into stardom.

I like to go around, and people not knowing who I am.

I could care less whether the American public knows what I look like.

I never get recognized. Most of the time, when people think they know me, they believe I'm a member of their family. And that's the way I like it. That's just fine.

I like not knowing about my favourite actresses and actors. I love seeing Meryl Streep up there and knowing so little about who she is outside of what she's playing on screen.

It's, you know, kind of nice to be under the radar.

In the past I led such a mysterious life. I didn't give interviews.

I'm not a public person.

People don't know who I am, and that's not a bad thing at all from my end.

Liberating but hard to remember we're just bit-parts in the lives of people we know, who care very little for our secrets

Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination.

I'm not reclusive at all. Just private.

I have no interest in being famous. I'd love to vanish from the public eye as soon as I can.

Some of us just don't want to be famous ... anonymity cannot be bought for any price, once you have lost it.

If you would not be known to do anything, never do it.

I like the challenge. I do not like the attention.

The thrill of being ignored!

I don't run with anybody's herd. I don't like crowds. I don't like going to fancy places. I don't like the whole nightclub scene. Cocktail parties drive me mad. So I do my job and I stay away from the rest of it.

Anonymity is the fame of the future.

MySpace is somehow more welcoming than Facebook. And Twittering, I just... Ugh. I like having radio silence. I think radio silence is an important part of any public figure's day. We haven't seen it yet, but there's going to be a generation that comes up where the new trend will be complete anonymity. It'll be cool to have never posted anything online, commented, opened a webpage or a MySpace. I think everyone in the future is going to be allowed to be obscure for 15 minutes. You'll have 15 minutes where no one is watching you, and then you'll be shoved back onto your reality show.