Alex Lawther Quotes

I was a very defensive kid 'cause I was really sensitive underneath and didn't want people to know. So I came off as very tough and very angry.

Nobody's just arrogant. I've met people who are embattled and dismissive, but when you get to know them, you find that they're vulnerable - that that hauteur or standoffishiness is because they're pedaling furiously underneath.

When you're an insecure teenager, you build walls and defenses and masks, and those are incredibly satisfying to perform and chip away at. I mean, when I was an insecure teenager, you'd have had no idea what I was insecure about because I hid it so well. Only confident people are comfortable wearing their vulnerabilities on their sleeve.

I always thought that feminine, softer side was just too vulnerable to put out there, because then it's like you're opening up a door for everybody to come in, and you don't know who's going to come in that door.

I'm more insecure than I ever let anyone know; sometimes you protect yourself with this kind of armor that people see more than they see you.

People think I'm so strong, but I'm very shy.

I was a timid little guy when I was a kid. I used humor as a defense; I became the class clown. But deep inside, I felt real vulnerable.

We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world.

I'm a total wreck. Afraid to let anyone near. Afraid they'll see the real me.

I don't like feeling vulnerable. I think my mum and dad's divorce affected me more than I let on.

People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think.

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.

I started to build barriers between myself and others to protect myself.

In order to feel loved, be respected and stay connected, we humans have a tendency to lie. We lie about who we are, what we want, what we need, what we have done or will do. Perhaps 'lie' is too strong a word. Let me say that what we do is withhold the truth.

With wives, men hide behind the air of bravado, which is basically a defence mechanism, I think. Clever creatures, women. Very clever.

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved.

I couldn't bear it if anyone knew I had hardly any self-confidence at all.

You see, every day, that the people who are seemingly so confident and seemingly so in love with themselves are the ones who are the most insecure and hurting the most inside.

My biggest fear is looking weak, girly, and pathetic.

Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel it's necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.

Sometimes macho language is to mask things people are not ready to deal with.

When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.

So many people hide inside their clothes.

I never had any friends beyond a certain superficial level. We hate to admit weaknesses. We were raised to want to get ahead, to be good and clever and successful. You're just ashamed to open up.

I moved around so much when I was younger that I sort of had to have this type of exterior; you know, I was afraid of getting hurt.