Douglas Preston Quotes

Half of acting is you're very intimidated, overcoming your fears, letting yourself be vulnerable in front of people and that sort of stuff.

I get very uncomfortable with people watching me.

My wife watches me like a hawk.

It's different when you're an actor and playing a part, but when it's just you, you feel immensely vulnerable have strangers prodding and prying.

Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to me or touch me casually, I may get intimidated and bite you. So please be careful.

We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.

People in extreme conditions are suddenly naked, realer than normal, perhaps even more alive.

Eisenhower had the clearest blue eyes. He would fix them on you. In my every interview with him, he would lock his eyes on to mine and keep them there.

I would prefer to be a little nervous, because when you stop being nervous is kind of when you stop caring.

The nature of honesty is that if someone has information or knows something about you that you don't want heard, then they have power over you.

If anybody ever finds out where your district is, they'll beat you.

I do not wish to afford my political enemies ... an opportunity to mortify and insult me.

Follow me around.... I'm serious. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.

I've never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.

I think it does, a little, hurt to be photographed.

I think it is scary anytime anyone is coming at you asking questions.

I get naturally uncomfortable when I'm put under a magnifying glass.

My own perception of Malcolm was one of something that bordered on fascination because I was looking at him and reacting to him as a subject.

Sometimes it's easy to do brave things in front of a thousand people, but it's hard to do them in front of a handful. It feels so much more exposing.

In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others.

Eyes are bold as lions,--roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near. They speak all languages. They wait for no introduction; they are no Englishmen; ask no leave of age or rank; they respect neither property nor riches, neither learning nor power, nor virtue, nor sex, but intrude, and come again, and go through and through you in a moment of time. What inundation of life and thought is discharged from one soul into another through them!

The Blue album, there’s hardly a dishonest note in the vocals. At that period of my life, I had no personal defenses. I felt like a cellophane wrapper on a pack of cigarettes. I felt like I had absolutely no secrets from the world and I couldn’t pretend in my life to be strong. Or to be happy. But the advantage of it in the music was that there were no defenses there, either.

You listen to people so that you can imagine them, and you hear all the terrible and wonderful things people do to themselves and to one another, but in the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to.

Do you think I just turn my secrets out for everyone?" He is unfazed. "I didn't know they were secrets," he says. "Or I wouldn't have asked.

I don't keep any close friends. I don't keep any secrets. I don't need friends. I just tell everybody everything, that's all.