Jon Richardson Quotes

I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.

I don't care about a social life.

I'm not designed to interact with society.

I don't really have a social life.

I don't interact with people much.

I was a wallflower. I never talked to anybody. I was so afraid of people, I never said a word.

I lived alone, I didn't know anybody in New York, and I was definitely a recluse. It had been, like, two weeks, and I realized I hadn't said anything. I was laying in bed, and I was like, 'Hello?' I just talked to hear my own voice. And it was such a strange feeling.

Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone.

April 27. Incapable of living with people, of speaking. Complete immersion in myself, thinking of myself. Apathetic, witless, fearful. I have nothing to say to anyone - never.

I'm not too good when exposed to people

You know that book 'Quiet: the Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking', by Susan Cain? That's like my manifesto. The older I get, the more I think I could be a hermit.

When I was working on Eye of the Beholder, I played a character who is so aloof that my whole lifestyle became very aloof. If someone knocked on my door, there was a part of me that went into a rage, because I wanted to be isolated and alone.

I need, absolutely, to be alone.

I was an extremely reclusive and introverted boy.

I'm not very interested in people. I recognize it in myself - there is a basic indifference toward people.

In talking, shyness and timidity distort the very meaning of my words. I don't pretend to know anybody well. People are like shadows to me and I am like a shadow.

I was a shy, quiet kid. I was happiest playing by myself with my toys, rather than hanging around people.

I've never been a social person.

I don't like to socialise much.

I'm a loner. I like to be alone. I'm socially awkward.

My shyness probably defined the first 30 years of my life, really. It's a crippling thing. It can be very lonely knowing that you've got things to say, but you daren't say them.

Growing up, I wasn't the most vocal kid in the world. I feel like I learned through observation, and usually, when you're watching things, you're not speaking. That sort of metastasized in a way that I began to participate less and less in the world.

I have very few friends and don't talk much.

For those of us who aren't great with people, we figure that silence is always the safest bet. If you're an introvert, you spend so much of your time wishing that other people would just shut the hell up that you figure you're doing everyone a favor.

I used to isolate myself and be in my room by myself all the time.