Richard Boyle Quotes

To an outsider, Abilene was like a small landfall in the Sargasso Sea - remote, laconic, and forever closed to strangers.

I build a wall around myself. I'm hard to get to know. Any trait you have, it gets worse as you go along.

I know I can be very standoffish.

I just don't have this magnetic personality that everyone is drawn to. I don't make friends easily... I'm just not one of those people.

I'm not fit company for man or beast.

I suppose I'm a bit mean. My face on camera doesn't lend itself to happy nice guys. I think it's just that my bone structure looks menacing.

I usually kept everybody at arm's distance.

I'd be the first to say that I'm a distant individual. I have a tendency to come across as being aloof and dismissive.

p.61 He [Roark] was usually disliked, from the first sight of his face, anywhere he went. His face was closed like the door of a safety vault; things locked in safety vaults are valuable; men did not care to feel that. He was a cold, disquieting presence in the room; his presence had a strange quality: it made itself felt and yet it made them feel that he was not there; or perhaps that he was and they weren't.

I'm easy to hate.

His mouth is for export and his head has no entrance.

I generally hate the luxury modern apartment with too many things out of sight and so clean you cannot touch.

I can be more cold than people would like me to be.

I'm exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.

I don't have no friends. I don't want no friends. That's how I feel.

That's the poisoned chalice: when you're shy, people assume you're arrogant.

People come up to me and they're usually nice, but as it goes on you realise that some people aren't nice. Some people are not nice at all.

Nixon was kind of a loner, he had a cold personality.

I don't particularly have a wide social circle.

I am quite shy and people think I'm aloof.

I don't like cold people at all. It makes me feel really insecure.

It's true that I'm not cozy. I'm more reserved.

Reagan is not one that wears well. Reagan on a personal basis, is terrible. He just isn't pleasant to be around. Maybe he's different with others. No, he's just an uncomfortable man to be around...strange.

These people are not kindly people.

Some people kind of are afraid of me.