Syd Quotes

Sometimes I don't want to stand around a room full of strangers, chitchatting about nothing, so I'll come late to a party - and leave early. Though now that I'm saying this in a magazine, I'll probably never be invited to another one.

I don't like to go out a lot. It's trouble.

The thing I worry about for myself is I spend a lot of time alone, and another person comes around and you're like, 'What are you doing here? Get out of here.'

No one tells me what they think because they're either intimidated by me, or they don't want to upset me.

I don't like to be noticed. The older I've got, the more reclusive I've become. I've got late-onset shyness. People are lovely. When they see me in the street, they don't ask for anything from me. They just say: 'I thought it was you, and I just wanted to say how much I enjoy your books,' but I can't seem to cope with it anymore.

There was a point in time where the thought of people even talking about me made me anxious. Physically.

Well, I don't go out much socially. I don't enjoy going out.

I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.

I try to avoid people as much as possible. They might change my life!

I am afraid I am totally hermetic to social games in general.

I don't like going out. I'm more of a watch TV, hang out, Netflix kind of guy. I don't like leaving; I don't like talking to people. It gives me anxiety.

If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can't control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I'm just not going to go outside the house. I'm going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.

Martina's gone with people who don't want to be out, and it drives her crazy because she'd rather be open.

At the root of the shy temperament is a deep fear of social judgment, one so severe it can sometimes be crippling. Introverted people don't worry unduly about whether they'll be found wanting, they just find too much socializing exhausting and would prefer either to be alone or in the company of a select few people.

People pretend to know me when they don't. I feel uncomfortable when I feel like I don't remember someone.

I don't have a lot to share with other men. My heart sinks when I get into a taxi and someone starts talking to me about football.

As evidenced during my failed audition, I'm a thorough introvert who would completely hate living in a 'Real World' house. I would have taken my Ikea comforter to the confessional room and never come out.

I don't really even go out that much now except to walk my dogs, because I don't want to be recognised.

I'm not really very comfortable being hit on at all.

I get so nervous. I happen to be socially awkward and shy. I spent a lot of my time as an adult not going places.

I don't do a lot of dating. I guess it's kind of like everyone is always trying to set me up with somebody, so we go out and hang out at a club or somewhere. I think dates are weird.

I find parties difficult. I like a dinner party, but I find being at parties difficult, so I choose not to go to parties.

From my childhood, I am like this. I never go parties and attend functions.

I was the kind of kid, I'd sit in the back row of the class with my head practically under the desk. I was incredibly afraid of people and very shy.

I don't do stairs. And I don't do groups.