Janet Varney Quotes

I feel like I'm being watched. Always. Like, I want to tan topless somewhere, and I know I probably could never do that. Even if I'm upstairs in my bedroom, and the curtains are pulled, I feel like a paparazzo's outside on a boat somewhere, or somebody's peeping.

The people in Dominica and the small communities where I were had no idea who I was, and there's no better security than that.

I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded.

I don't really want people to see me. I'm not into stardom.

I've never liked the recognition, the questions, the publicity. I have often felt like running away and hiding.

Weird people follow you in the streets, you can't sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone.

It would be cool to be invisible, but I'm afraid of what people would say about me if they didn't know I was there. Some things are better left unknown.

Nothing terrifies me more than being social.

I was painfully shy as a child.

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.

When someone is looking at me, I feel they are looking at someone standing behind me, not at me.

I do not like attention. Oddly enough, I do everything I can to avoid it.

Sometimes I'm fine. It just depends on where you are and if someone sees you and takes down your licence plate number. But sometimes you go to places, and no-one knows and it's fine. It really just depends.

It's not living alone if you keep a rifle under the bed.

We're invisible. I've never been here with someone else. It's different being invisible with someone.

I don't want people to look at me.

I get very uncomfortable with people watching me.

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

Anonymity would be a fantastic umbrella. I don't like intrusion.

People come up to me all the time. If I'm with friends or in a crowd, I'm fine, but if I'm by myself, I get afraid because people are nuts.

I have a very ostrich mentality. I feel like I have my head in the sand so no one can see me.

I never felt terribly comfortable in the public eye.

I haven't had the whole 'famous' thing happen to me yet, and I hope I never will. I like to sneak away in the corners and hide a lot.

I'm usually too shy to write on planes because I assume that everyone on board is as nosy as I am and will look over my shoulder and read what I'm writing.