Christopher Lloyd Quotes

Sometimes interviews are fun and good conversations, but stuff like photo shoots and appearances at places where you have to meet a lot of people - I was never really made for this kind of stuff.

I have a lot of admiration for people willing to face the public, but I'd prefer not to.

Television forces people to be larger than life. I would be too shy.

I'm really not comfortable doing interviews in a group, in press conferences. One-on-one, I'm all right, but those press conferences at the All-Star Game, I just don't... I feel better when I'm by myself.

For me, there's no dichotomy between being shy or a performer, because I think it's more a way of slightly presenting a version of things to the world.

I don't really like seeing myself on TV doing interviews.

Taking off my shirt has become a part of my life, whether it is at award ceremonies or reality shows. As long as people enjoy it, why not?

Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.

I don't think that just because you go on stage you are an exhibitionist.

I don't consider myself to be incredibly confident, or really lacking in confidence. When you're on Jonathan Ross' or Graham Norton's show, inevitably there's something to sell. And there's a live audience; you're sat between Cameron Diaz and Tinie Tempah - I don't really see it as 'me.' It would be odd if it was.

Am I an ego on legs? No I am not. Do I want to be seen out there all the time saying everything? No, I don't.

I still can't believe that I went on 'The Colbert Report' myself; for the appearance I wore a lot of makeup, my hair was curled like a poodle's, and I could barely breathe in my Spanx undergarments. But, hey - an authoress has to lean in, right?

When I was younger, the red carpet used to terrify me because it's not about playing a part: you're not in a film pretending to be someone - you are yourself. It's intimidating.

In real life, you just work for the ordinary self, but in the front of audience you become the superself. That's a completely different thing.

I don't have the looks to compete at a bar, and I'm not that funny. So the last thing I want is to be in a situation where that's what I'm competing on. I'd rather be on OkCupid or Match, where I can write a 300-word essay about myself that's really good.

I hate doing interviews. I get really bored talking about me.

I don't want to have to be like a Scarlett Johansson - who I have nothing against - but I don't want to have to go on talk shows and pull out every SAT word I've ever learned to prove, like, 'Take me seriously, I am intelligent, I can speak.'

I just don't think I've ever been comfortable at public functions and selling myself as an entity.

Inherently, I'm not a huge extrovert, so I actually find interviews and all the glamour to be a bit challenging sometimes.

I don't really rate press conferences. It's not as though I leave the room fist-pumping my way down the corridor after a good one.

I don't mind being the center of attention as a character but in real life it's not for me.

I don't leave the house without thinking of how to represent myself.

Actually I don't choose to expose myself in public. I choose to compete; the other side just comes with the package.

People always think I hate doing interviews. I don't. I wouldn't do them if I didn't like them.

I don't get nervous talking about my films, but if I'm the subject, it's hard.