I really hate being recognised. I'm quite a shy person, and I'm not very good at talking to strangers. So when people come up to me in the street, I just find it quite awkward. I don't really know what to say to them.
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Related When I'm not on stage, I'm kind of shy. If you see me and I don't say much, don't th... JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE You know, I'm not really any good at working out when people are flirting with me. And I think I... JOSH HARTNETT I don't know if I want to walk down the street and have everyone staring. I think that would be ... ESSIE DAVIS I don't know what I'm really good at. I'm really good at sittin' by the pool. I have... ALEX O'LOUGHLIN Directing is genderless. The only thing... I love men. I'm not being mean to them, but they can&... LORI PETTY I know I have a reputation that is not so flattering, but I guess I owe it to just being a private p... SHAHID KAPOOR I don't think of myself as being troubled as a human being, but I guess I'm quite extreme, q... BEN DANIELS Being Mormon is a big part of who I am, and I try very hard to live the right way, but I don't k... STEPHENIE MEYER Some people are just quiet - they don't need to be talking all the time and aren't extrovert... CHIRLANE MCCRAY I like to say that I practice militant mysticism. I'm really absolutely sure of some things that... ROB BELL I'm pretty good with talking to girls if I have an introduction, but I'm the worst at trying... BRYAN GREENBERG I'm just really tiny. People hate me, because I just sit. I'm eating, I'm eating, I'... CHANEL IMAN I have social anxiety. It's easier up on stage because there's security in being there. When... SIA There's a lot of annoying things about me. I don't know, I'm really shy at first, and I ... KENDALL JENNER I was 26 when I went to my first acting class. I'm naturally quite shy. I'm a quite private ... HANNAH WARE I would rather people take me as straightforward and not have to wonder if I'm kidding or not. B... CHARLES GRODIN I'm a very honest person, and I'm quite emotional for a man. If I want to say something, I... BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE I Googled 'What do rich people buy?' Because I don't feel like a rich person, and I don&... J. J. WATT People in Scunthorpe don't care what I say. And I'm not camp, either. I'm a geezer. I... BOY GEORGE I don't know where people think I'm from, but I'm from Chicago. It's really just tha... CHANCE THE RAPPER I don't really care if people think I'm good-looking or not; it doesn't define me as a p... GENESIS RODRIGUEZ I'm quite a curious person. I don't mind being the one who doesn't know things, a role I... ALAN DAVIES I'm not 100% nice all the time, so I find it quite hard to be really pleasant. ALEXA CHUNG I am actually a very unspeaking person. I'm not really good in social situations. People expect ... CHARLOTTE RAMPLING For me, just being how old I am, I know I don't want to be a single mom. I really would rather m... LISA EDELSTEIN I don't want to stand in front of a whole lot of fakeys. If I'm going to meet someone and sa... DAMIEN RICE I don't feel I'm a compulsive person. I multitask. I'm really well-organised, and I have... ALAN CUMMING I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobb... IRWIN ROSE I'm a good person. I don't wish hateful things on people. I don't hate anybody. I know t... CURT SCHILLING There's something about being rejected - when I go out without my friends, I'm reminded of h... JASON RITTER Honestly, I don't really read about myself. I look at the pictures sometimes. Sometimes I'm ... CAROLINE WOZNIACKI I'm really shy - I don't do karaoke. KATE MICUCCI I really don't mind what people assume about me. I really think that my brain is my private thin... ALICE EVE I like to consider myself a relatively spiritual person, and I just do my thing. I'm very focuse... VICTORIA BECKHAM I think of myself as quite a shy person. But when I'm curious about something, I'll go quite... ALAIN DE BOTTON I'm a shy person. I don't know if it's in my DNA to share with the world. LISA BONET The minute I stop singing, I'm back to being shy. I'm soft-spoken because I never really tal... BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE I don't know why everybody thinks I'm smooth. I think I'm just a pretty silly person, re... BILLY DEE WILLIAMS I'm not gonna say that I hate it, because I really respect Usher and I was influenced by him. Bu... CHRIS BROWN I'm just shocked and thankful that I've gotten away with everything - experimenting here, tr... MICHAEL KEATON I would love to do comedy, but you have to be phenomenally good. I'm not sure I'm there yet.... ROSE LESLIE I'm probably not very funny. The scripts just don't come in, or the ones that do aren't ... RAY WINSTONE I don't want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I'm not ... NAS I'm really tall, and I used slouch and think it was really uncool to stand up straight - now I w... SARAH PARISH Because I'm a designer, I'm quite good when I shop. I know what I'm looking for. OZWALD BOATENG I'm quite lucky in that at certain angles I look all right, and at others I don't look so go... TOM RILEY I'm trying my best with what I want to do, which is modelling. I think I'm on my own career ... KENDALL JENNER I hate it when people come up to me when I'm eating. SHIRLEY BASSEY I'm in the strange position of the world drifting away from me, but you know what? I'm actua... ROBERT SMITH When I'm rapping, like, a turn up song, I'm thinking about what the people want to hear; thi... TINK I'm not trying to find another thing that's wrong with me, but I'm such a nice person, a... TRACEY EMIN I'm really thankful and complimented when people come to me and say, thank you for the great tim... BILL KREUTZMANN I am mean; I'm nasty at times. I don't feel like talking to people at times. When I am in a ... KAJOL I'm not really a pick-up-line guy. I don't know what I do. HARRY STYLES It really bothers me when a guy is controlling. Don't just say 'I'm picking the place... CASSIE SCERBO I'm very sensitive and I'm quite a soft person, and I cry a lot when things upset me. LEONA LEWIS I don't care if the average guy on the street really knows what I'm like, as long as he know... DON RICKLES People who don't know that I do comedy think I'm shy, kind of a dud, and I don't have th... MARTHA KELLY I'm actually really good at vacuuming, and I don't even mind it so much. I hate dusting with... BRONTE CAMPBELL I'm very focused on what I do professionally, and I'm very focused on my family, and I don... VICTORIA BECKHAM Some people love being onstage and really open up, and I'm sort of the opposite of that. I don... DAN AUERBACH When I'm in a bikini or at a photo shoot, I'm real confident. But, if I'm in a group of ... GEORGIA SALPA When I'm being funny, I try not to offend. I don't think much of what I've done has been... KURT VONNEGUT I don't know why I get away with some things. But I'm not a misogynistic, racist person. Yet... DANIEL TOSH I'm just a crazy person. I mean, I really didn't have any trouble coming up with weird ways ... CECILY VON ZIEGESAR I'm single. I just moved to a new city. I'm sort of starting over. I'm in Los Angeles. I... SUTTON FOSTER I hate people saying anything stupid. I don't really suffer fools very well at all. When people ... JOSHUA JACKSON You know, I'm just a very boring, not very funny person in person. I don't feel pressured to... LORRIE MOORE I'm a normal person. You say something about me, I'm going to say something back, funny or n... AUSTIN SEFERIAN-JENKINS I'm very quiet. I can go a whole week without talking, so doing interviews is really awkward for... KATIE LEUNG I don't really understand why people are so interested in me, personally. I'm just a curator... ELISE ANDREW I don't really want people to see me. I'm not into stardom. DAVID SUCHET I'm very good at what I do, and I don't turn my hand to something unless I'm very good a... DAVID BOWIE I don't want a life without my mom in it, but I'm not someone who curls up in the fetal posi... KHLOE KARDASHIAN I was not good at team sports, I have to say. I'm quite good at individual sports, but I was not... TOM FORD So I won't say I'm lucky. I'm fortunate enough to find or attract very talented people. ... PETER DINKLAGE I was so shy. I used to cross the street so I wouldn't even have to talk to my relatives, much l... GERALDINE BROOKS Well, a lot of people don't know this about me, but I'm actually shy around people I don'... AVRIL LAVIGNE When I'm not working, I'm really, really low key. I don't wear makeup unless I have to; ... GUGU MBATHA-RAW I'm not a really big comic book person. I know the typical ones - 'Spider-Man' and '... CHRISTIAN SERRATOS I don't necessarily want to know what people are saying when I'm not around, especially if i... LAURA VANDERVOORT Truthfully, I'm incredibly shy, and I'm very awkward around boys. DOVE CAMERON I just want to keep doing a bunch of stuff that I don't really plan. I'm so fortunate and lu... MEGAN AMRAM I'm a regular person. I know a lot of people love being famous. I don't like it. I'm jus... WALE I take time to open up with people. But once I know you, I'm fine. I'm a shy person. SUSHANT SINGH RAJPUT I learned a long time ago to be honest when I'm talking to other artists. Up-and-coming artists ... COMMON I am quite shy and people think I'm aloof. KRISTEN STEWART I was not considered beautiful at all. Really. And this is what all models say. But I'm still no... IMAN I'm sure there will come a time when I won't be able to, you know, walk around so easy somet... FRANK DILLANE I personally like to talk to people when I'm not doing a scene, still acting as if I'm in Go... CAMREN BICONDOVA Even though I am a professional, and I know what the steps are, I don't quite know how I'm g... SUZANNE FARRELL I don't follow fashion. I need people to style me because I'm pretty clueless about it and I... MEGAN FOX You know what? I'm not always in a positive, happy place. But I'm able to concentrate enough... BRIAN WILSON I'm quite shy. Television presents an amplified version of yourself. When I'm on camera I... KEVIN MCCLOUD I'm not a natural story-teller. Put a keyboard in front of me and I'm fine, but stand me up ... BILL BRYSON I don't feel like I have anything to lose, so I don't really understand what I'm putting... HEATH LEDGER I don't really know much about TV and what people want to see. I'm not that well-informed ab... LARRY DAVID I'm an information junkie, and I don't mean that in snobby way. I'm not talking about wo... DANIELLE SCHNEIDER I really do feel like I know myself, and I'm so happy to be by myself and I'm so happy to be... DREE HEMINGWAY No one's ever really cared about me being bisexual, and I only came out because I had always bee... NICOLA ADAMS
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HANNAH COWLEY Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard aga... HANNAH ARENDT Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only t... HANNAH ARENDT By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to real... HANNAH ARENDT In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. HANNAH ARENDT Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appe... HANNAH ARENDT For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. HANNAH ARENDT Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. HANNAH ARENDT There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. HANNAH ARENDT The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition... HANNAH ARENDT Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for ... HANNAH ARENDT Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. HANNAH ARENDT No man ever repented on his deathbed of being a Christian. HANNAH MOORE Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains. HANNAH MORE It's so stupid because all I wanted was space and now that I have it, there's this part of me that's... HANNAH HARRINGTON Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trem... HANNAH MORE The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of ... HANNAH MORE The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than... HANNAH MORE My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works ... HANNAH MORE There is one single fact which we may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity, namely, that... HANNAH MORE Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. HANNAH MORE O jealousy,
Thou ugliest fiend of hell! thy deadly venom
Preys on my vitals, turns the health... HANNAH MORE Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its
necessities. HANNAH MORE Fell luxury! more perilous to youth
Than storms or quicksands, poverty of chains. HANNAH MORE No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue;
Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest
Save he who... HANNAH MORE Even though Graham and I went back to arguing and stealing socks and hiding each other's toothbrushe... HANNAH MOSKOWITZ I never do enjoy my breaks, long or short...I look forward to them intensely, but as soon as they be... SOPHIE HANNAH Some women nodded, others shook their heads. I would have killed myself before I let one of them mov... KRISTIN HANNAH He took his pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And ... HANNAH HARRINGTON Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more cert... HANNAH MORE A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar -- you pretend it'... DARYL HANNAH What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determ... HANNAH ARENDT Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. HANNAH ARENDT How goodness heightens beauty! HANNAH MORE Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. HANNAH MORE Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardo... HANNAH ARENDT If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow... HANNAH MORE Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam o... HANNAH MORE Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty. HANNAH MORE Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. HANNAH ARENDT The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. HANNAH ARENDT No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our histo... HANNAH ARENDT Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses ha... HANNAH ARENDT It was characteristic of the rise of the Nazi movement in Germany and of the Communist movements in ... HANNAH ARENDT Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future. HANNAH ARENDT Every organization of men, be it social or political, ultimately relies on man's capacity for making... HANNAH ARENDT