Joel Stein Quotes

I don't like going to the gym because I don't like being with people I don't know in that intense environment.

I get uncomfortable in large groups of people and loud music.

I'm not very good at going to parties and looking like I'm having fun.

A room full of hundreds, let alone thousands, of people is not my most fun thing in the world.

I'm quite claustrophobic, and I don't like everyone crowding around and shouting the same questions.

I don't feel safe around a lot of people.

I can not stay at the place when a stranger starts talking to me. I will try to cut the speech as quick as possible and move away. I had to break this inhibition before becoming an actor.

I hate being recognised on nights out.

I don't enjoy being on social media or at events.

One of the main reasons I don't like leaving the house is because I might find myself face to face with a Canadian.

Into the dark night Resignedly I go, I am not so afraid of the dark night As the friends I do not know, I do not fear the night above As I fear the friends below.

One day I shall write a little book of conduct myself, and I shall call it Social Problems of the Unsociable. And the root problem, beneath a hundred varying manifestions, is How to Escape. How to escape, that is, at those times, be they few or frequent, when you want to keep yourself to yourself.

You wouldn't know it, from some of the things I've said over the years, but I like people. I do. I like people, but I like them in short bursts. I don't like people for extended periods of time. I'm all right with them for a little while, but once you get up past around... a minute, minute and a half, I gotta get the fuck out of there.

Do you hate people? I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.

It's a hard, lonely feeling, to be completely yourself in front of strangers.

I hate solitude but I am afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself and to turn it into a dialogue would be equivalent to self-destruction. The company I need is the company which a pub or a cafe will provide. I have never wanted a communion of souls.

I see people, as they approach me, trying to make up their minds whether they'll 'say something about it' or not. I hate if they do, and if they don't.

With me, my main vision for life was to avoid as many people as possible. The less people I saw the better I felt.

The more that I work with people that I don't know, the more I invite somebody in who's potentially going to really hate being there.

I am rarely bored alone; I am often bored in groups and crowds.

Let us stay at home: there we are decent. Let us not go out: our defects wait for us at the door, like flies.

I hate phone calls so I believe in a telephone armistice. To me, the idea of calling someone unprompted is basically saying, 'Hey, stop whatever you're doing and talk to me right now.

Not everybody hates me. Only the people who've met me.

I have one problem, I don’t hate people. They disgust me and I want to get away from them. I do not have hatred. I have an escape mechanism.

I didn't like being alone. Being alone was slightly better than having to deal with people, that's all. Or so I'd convinced myself.