Louis Theroux Quotes

I think people can tell when you're pandering to them, and they feel insulted. I think that one thing that is really nice about the work that I do is that I can just sort of make mistakes or try out different ideas or be inconsistent and be vulnerable.

I don't know what people think of me. If they think I'm super confident, that's wrong because I still have insecurities like anybody else.

Sometimes I feel a bit socially disconnected in terms of being a little bit gullible about how people interrelate emotionally.

I love 'I'm British But...' It's such a sweet, innocent, open-hearted film, and it has the sort of openness that I still aspire to with everything I do. It wears its heart, head, everything on its sleeve.

I'm so uncomfortable, especially in emotional situations, having to say sentences that don't feel right. As an actor - or really, as any kind of person sensitive to it.

I am a very open person, and I'm always nervous of being misconstrued. Sitting in the middle of a restaurant makes me nervous. I feel like I'm being judged. And it's funny that I should feel that way.

I probably am more shy than people realize. But I'm shy when I leave a studio and I am just myself.

I'm not sure that I am able to feel embarrassment.

I always feel kind of awkward when I look at pictures of myself. Watching videos of myself is really uncomfortable.

The one thing I'm very aware of is I've never been particularly good at relationships.

As I've gotten to know myself over the years, I realised I'm kind of a sweet, sensitive guy, a shy guy, and communication is not something I'm so good at.

As parents know, little children are, by their nature, without guile. They speak the thoughts of their minds without reservation or hesitance as we have learned as parents when they embarrass us at times. They do not deceive. They set an example of being without guile.

I have to say that I am embarrassed about how emotional I am.

Perhaps I'm just over-sensitive.

I don't really experience much embarrassment.

I'm not very good with words, weirdly.

I am showing my emotions sometimes, and I can't help it. That's the way I am.

I am an honest person, and that includes showing my emotions - good or bad.

In my experience, it tends to be a real reflection of someone's intelligence, confidence and sensitivity when they can just be real.

Writers - human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.

I think that when somebody tells you something of value, a lot of the time there's this thing that happens, and I don't know if you find it, where they go exactly for the word or the moment or the thing that you were hoping they wouldn't notice, or inside didn't feel 100 percent secure about. If they point it out, then that really sends you the message of, "Okay, I was trying to override my own instincts about it, and I guess I shouldn't."

I never want to be pretentious.

I remember once acting really cool on a bus with this girl named Stephanie. When I got home, I realized that I had a really big zit on my forehead. If you have acne problems, you really shouldn't be acting like Don Juan. I should have been contrite - and apologized for exposing her to the angry pimple.

I am actually very in touch with all of my emotions, from joy to pain, and I am free with them.

It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.