Aaron Johnson Quotes

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

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

I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don't know who or what, maybe myself.

I'm notorious for giving a bad interview. I'm an actor and I can't help but feel I'm boring when I'm on as myself.

To see yourself on the big screen, you're big, you hate your voice, your vocabulary. You say the same words, you speak bad.

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.

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

The hardest pill for me to swallow has been receiving recognition, getting dressed up, going to events. That's the part that has always terrified me. You can see dozens of photos where I have zero hair and makeup and I'm wearing my own jeans and T-shirt, because I was not that interested in that side of it.

I don't regard myself as an entertainer. I don't think that's where my talents lie. It always feels a bit uncomfortable.

I personally don't feel like I'm really different with the mask on or not, but I don't really like to take interviews or go talk to other people or in front of other people.

The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.

I like jokes and one-liners. I enjoy entertaining and making people laugh, being the funny man. But when I'm launched into unfamiliar environments I shut down, and as I relax then my character emerges.

People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.

As an adolescent, I was painfully shy, withdrawn. I didn't really have the nerve to sing my songs on stage, and nobody else was doing them. I decided to do them in disguise so that I didn't have to actually go through the humiliation of going on stage and being myself.

I have no issues with my identity.

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

Insecurity is a natural part of human nature, and there are times we feel our stories are not worth telling, so we turn to the people we admire for strength. If we dress like someone everyone thinks is cool, perhaps we'll be seen as cool.

Well, the real Eric Bogosian is pretty self-conscious of himself.

It took me a long time to be alright with smiling onstage.

I'm not sure people even think of me as an actor at all.

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

It'd be really nice to wake up looking like, I don't know, Jake Gyllenhaal and think, 'Let's try this on for a day and see how it feels.'

I think that as soon as you think of yourself as a famous person or anything like that, you're objectifying yourself in some weird way.

As a little girl, I was always shy, but in front of the camera I wasn't.

Everyone is insecure. I think, really, it comes from, like, a desire to want to be in control of how you're represented.