Desire for Anonymity Quotes

After 2000 or so, I started to realize I wanted to be doing something else. I didn't want to be in front of a camera. I was frustrated. I didn't think I would stop acting, but I didn't want to be seen.

The wish to disappear sends many travelers away. If you are thoroughly sick of being kept waiting at home or at work, travel is perfect: let other people wait for a change. Travel is a sort of revenge for having been put on hold, or having to leave messages on answering machines, not knowing your party's extension, being kept waiting all your working life - the homebound writer's irritants. But also being kept waiting is the human conditon.

He once said that he wished to be famous, but unknown.

I am sick and tired of publicity. I want no more of it. It puts me in a bad light. I just want to be forgotten.

I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come.

In the beginning, I loved being famous, but now I am tired of it and I would like to go back to my freedom.

I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.

I longed to be forgotten in order to be able to complain to myself.

I don't want my personal life to change. I don't understand why people strive for fame. I know it's ironic for me to be saying this, but this will be the last one I do.

I can't wait to go back home and disappear into relative obscurity for a bit. I just want to go back to my house and just get away from it all for a bit. It's so flattering to hear people say nice things about the performance, about the Harry Potter film. It's great. Don't get me wrong. I'm not ashamed of it. I'm not shunning it. It's just been such a bubble I've been in, with these promotions.

I don't like to be recognized on the street or in restaurants, and I don't like the whole celebrity thing.

I think most writers, in a sense, have this desire to disappear, to be absolutely anonymous, to be removed in some way: that comes out of the need to be a writer.

I would like to be invisible because I'd love to go into people's houses and see their interior decorating.