J. Maarten Troost Quotes

There is no problem so big it cannot be run away from.

I think I survived by running away some. Running away to work.

That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life.

To some people I'll always be the bad guy.

He who flees proves himself guilty.

Some people run away from things.

Running away from something doesn't do anything except put distance.

I'm certainly never running away from the Seekers again.

Are you running away from something?

No problem is so big or so complicated that it can't be run away from!

I've heard people say I'm a Curry and that helped me get where I am. Sometimes I think it's the opposite.

I stay standoffish in a sense, in my own personal space, to be able to cope with whatever it is you've got to cope with.

I'm kind of used to people trying to define me or, you know, lying about me.

It is really hard when your life is scrutinized by people who don't know you and who don't really know what the situation is. So I avoid the good and the bad and just try to live in a world where I can insulate myself from whatever is out there.

You look at me: you see the tattoos, and I ride a motorcycle.

My go-to protective thing is isolation. It's turn off the phone, don't speak to anyone, lie in bed all day, and then maybe go out at night and do the same thing over again.

I am always running away from something.

They want to portray me as crazy, unhinged, unbalanced. OK, good, fine.

The fame thing made me run - it got out of hand and I needed to go away.

Maybe by nature and because of my past I protect myself. The minute I feel any tension I take myself away.

People call me fussy, but that's a fallacy.

When you come into this league, everyone tries to put you in categories - 'this is what he is' or 'this is what he can do.'

If you judge me only by my profession, you don't know me at all. Those people who do that? They'll never know me.

Over the course of many encounters and many years, I have successfully developed a standard operating procedure for dealing with big, nasty monsters. Run away.

Even today I meet people who think of me automatically as a tough, insensitive, coarse guy named Stanley Kowalski. They can't help it, but, it is troubling.