David Hockney Quotes

I really hate being recognised. I'm quite a shy person, and I'm not very good at talking to strangers. So when people come up to me in the street, I just find it quite awkward. I don't really know what to say to them.

People are really terrified of me. I don't know why, I'm very nice, but people are very intimidated by me.

When I am at a straight club, which is like once a year, if a man even looks in my direction, I verbally attack him.

When you're walking at the airport, you're expected to smile at people because they know you... I find that tough. I'm only trying to protect myself. So I don't take my eyes off the floor. People can take that as attitude. But it's actually shyness. Yes, it is a bad habit. But it's a defense mechanism.

It's difficult to talk to people... I walk into a room and I'm Danielle Steel, and whatever I say is going to be taken apart.

People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.

No matter where I go, I always feel unwanted eyes following me. It's a dirty world out there.

I'm glad I don't live in Primrose Hill any more. I couldn't even walk through the park. You never invite that kind of attention.

I used to feel so shy speaking to girls. It was even worse when they were around their crew because they would diss me.

Some people have no respect whether you are with your family or not. That's the hardest part. I was shopping in a grocery store in Seattle looking for stuff for Nicholas. This guy kept following me with his cell phone video on.

The thing I worry about for myself is I spend a lot of time alone, and another person comes around and you're like, 'What are you doing here? Get out of here.'

I don't like going out where it's really, really crowded.

I don't go to places where I'm going to get mobbed.

I'm a nice guy, but people want to kill me.

You can't have a conversation with someone who's intimidated by you all the time.

I don't mind having people over, but it's weird how much more withdrawn I've become than being social in public places, I guess.

It is troublesome sometimes when people get up in your face in public, you know? And say, 'How could you, how dare you?' Well, they don't know me.

People are always backing up when I'm just going to shake their hands.

You don't need a rope to pinch a stranger's butt.

Men think they already know me. But as they get closer and closer, they become that 14-year-old again. A lot of men do stammer and blush a little bit.

Perhaps I scare people. I don't know why.

I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.

How could these people in the public eye not be afraid of me, but my whole town was?

When I am talking to people who I feel don't like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.

I am not made to be pulled into the public as a person. I feel threatened there.