Shannon Purser Quotes

As a kid, I would push my shoulders forward in order to hide my heart from being hurt.

My unhappiness protects me from life.

I choose to live without hope to protect myself from disappointment. It's very effective!

Sadness is also a kind of defence.

There are always reasons for people's behaviour, and it's easy just to dismiss them and assume that we already know their story, especially if they're no good at showing their emotions. Life gives you all these knocks, it's so easy to form a shell to protect yourself. I've done it myself.

It's easier to shut yourself off outside than reveal your inner thoughts.

People might think I'm very hard, what with my black make-up, my hair over my eyes, etc. My innocence didn't always help me, but it did preserve something in me that maybe others don't have anymore. I'm inside my bubble, you could say, and thankfully so, because I don't think daily life is always great. It protects me.

Sometimes the funnier you are, the more vulnerable and scared you are underneath it all. So I think, for me, comedy was always a defense. It was a weapon so that you can't hurt me.

I have created a shell around me, in the good and the bad moments.

Bluster - it fortifies me against the outside world. Take away the words, and I am lost.

If I'd kept my heart better armored, where would I be now?

The best way to not get your heart broken, is pretending you don't have one.

By keeping her heart protected, she'll never ever feel rejected.

For 13 years, I struggled with education and have only just realised that I was actually struggling to protect myself from it. I was trying to protect my soul.

Once you encounter people who are really testing the limits of kindness, that's when you start to build up a shield and close yourself down.

Anyone who has had their heart broken learns to keep a little safety area. Even now in my relationship, I have something I can call my own in case something goes wrong. You need a place to retreat to.

I love it when talented actors can bring characters to life. Anybody who wears their feelings on their sleeve and has a harder, crusty shell - like I do - is definitely protecting an inner sensitivity.

I am a light person. I think of myself with a shield, a protective shield around me. And I think of bad things bouncing off it. Boom, boom, boom, ba-boom, ba- boom!

If I feel vulnerable, I get angry.

I seem to be failing in my intention to be as boring as I possibly can be for self-protection.

People choose to shut themselves off and build a load of defense mechanisms and not let anybody in because it's easier that way. You don't get hurt, and there's less risk involved if you build this hard shell.

Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.

If someone has gone through a lot of emotional pain, including the loss of loved ones, that person may try to build a shell around his or her feelings to protect him- or herself from the pain.

I had to grow a very thick skin very fast. I think that's where the GC came about.

Guard thy heart on this weak side, where most our nature fails.