Julian Barratt Quotes

I always thought I was a little shy, especially compared to my brother and my sister, but I guess I was always the kid doing performances in the front room.

I don't think that just because you go on stage you are an exhibitionist.

I'm actually pretty shy in real life. But I guess in front of the camera, I focus.

I think I was very shy and introverted when I was younger, and yet, when I got in front of the camera or went out on the town, I was able to go out half-naked and do anything.

Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I'm not the most outgoing person.

I don't think I'm particularly shy. I just don't like being front and center as myself.

Even as a kid I wasn't, like, a natural entertainer, where I would gather everyone around me and then sing or something at family parties.

Growing up, I was so shy, but it was weird because I was the complete opposite on stage. I was just free to be myself.

I am really a very shy person. If I appear, it is because of the music, not because I want to be seen.

At my very core, I'm pretty shy. I just happen to have a weird job.

I'm not the person in person that I am on stage.

I still have shy qualities but nobody would believe that, just because we're in the forefront and I can talk a lot of mess and I can run my mouth.

I was a shy kid with a broom handle that I pretended was a microphone.

I'm hideously shy as myself, but on stage I can run around naked and bite the heads off fish.

Everyone always wants to say I'm shy. I don't think so, but there's a disconnect with my fans. I want my fans to see me - that's what they never do.

In real life I'm very low-key. A wallflower. One of the reasons I went into comedy and acting was that I was sick of being shy.

I'm quite shy. Television presents an amplified version of yourself. When I'm on camera I'm pumping more adrenaline, I'm being a bit more engaging than I am in everyday conversation, but that's normal, isn't it? Otherwise nobody would want to watch.

People think that I'm a really outgoing person because of how I am on stage. But I'm not. I'm really shy.

I don't leave the house without thinking of how to represent myself.

I really liked drama and being in plays, so when I was playing a character onstage and I could act like somebody else, then I wasn't scared or nervous, but I didn't like meeting new people when I had to be myself. That was scary.

When I'm not doing the show, and the work has stopped, I walk into a restaurant and I'm shy; yet, when I'm in the show, when people come up with their phones and want to take my picture, I can handle it because it's almost like I'm wearing an armour.

I'm a writer. I'm naturally introverted, so being the public face of something, I don't think I do it well.

I am happiest in public, working in my world. Then I can be the star. That I can do. When I am not working, I am more guarded, set apart. It's not my life, that. I like interactions, but interaction that is not forced.

If you're a stranger, and you've never met me before, I'll probably be more reserved and quiet. If you're my friend, you probably see the same stuff that you see me do onstage.

I think, like, in real life, I'm actually quiet, and I mumble a lot. But that's not very lucrative.