Jonny Wilkinson Quotes

Even the small amount of infamy I have makes me uncomfortable - on a personal level and on a professional level.

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

There are people who can't stand me, they say, 'God, he makes me sick', or, 'He's creepy', but it doesn't affect me too badly.

I was sad Jon Ronson, who wrote in the Guardian and has made a TV show for Channel 4, took against me.

It's difficult to talk to people... I walk into a room and I'm Danielle Steel, and whatever I say is going to be taken apart.

When I am talking to people who I feel don't like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.

When you're talking about a really horrible personal thing that happened to you... and it doesn't get laughs... I feel really exposed and like I've overshared with some strangers.

No one wants to be a source of anxiety to everybody they know.

I certainly wouldn't feel safe telling people I was writer.

For a long time, I would go out of my way to have a personal appearance on the verge of an insane person, because it was closer to how I felt, but I looked so dumb. So, I just stopped. It was like, 'I'm just going to look like a banker.'

It's difficult to feel that people are looking at you in the street. I don't like the fuss.

I used to think... that people would think badly of me for various stuff they read. But now I accept it's just part of the deluge of stuff that comes every day.

Believe me, when an actress is told that her very name is synonymous with bad acting, she's had it.

Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.

When you're walking at the airport, you're expected to smile at people because they know you... I find that tough. I'm only trying to protect myself. So I don't take my eyes off the floor. People can take that as attitude. But it's actually shyness. Yes, it is a bad habit. But it's a defense mechanism.

I was so afraid of upsetting people, and not being liked for saying something that was not to everyone's taste.

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.

I was just sitting in Target, just getting over my cold. I blew my nose and I see these people looking at me and kind of whispering and pointing. Finally, I went, 'Is everything okay? Did I do something wrong? Do I have a booger on my face and no one's telling me?' I'm just not used to it.

Baldness is visually enough of a stigma as it is without a big sweaty bloke on stage pointing it out.

It's terrible the way words get attached to you like barnacles.

It's really hard to go out knowing that you are going to be the center of attention just about anywhere you go and that it's not going to be in a positive way.

I think people hate me pretty much across the board, which is nice. I mean, it's a pretty evenhanded loathing among a certain amount of the critical population, which used to be about 80 percent. So now I've gotten to the point where I just don't worry about it that much. It used to be very upsetting, now it's only mildly upsetting.

I was desperate really for people not to accuse me of coldness. It was taboo.

I just feel like if I start opening the door to talking about my university experience, then people just kind of... own everything. There was a lot of stuff a couple of years ago saying that I was bullied at Brown and awful things like that, none of which were true.

I don't think it's good for anyone to be in the public light - for negative reasons.