John Simm Quotes

I started to build barriers between myself and others to protect myself.

Personally, when things upset me, I get quiet and closed off. I have nothing to say, and a chill sets in while I think about what's going on.

If I feel somebody is getting volatile and taking things in other way, I better stay away from that person.

I build a wall around myself. I'm hard to get to know. Any trait you have, it gets worse as you go along.

You get a lot of people requesting photographs but I tend to keep myself to myself, pull my cap down.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can't be locked up with anyone for too long.

More and more, I find myself turning away from everything relating to contemporary society. I don't know how healthy it is, but I am creating a very private bubble that I live in.

I try to avoid talking about my personal life, but I certainly don't get angry about it - I just don't talk about it.

I am still very independent in my real life, and that's why I'm always trying to get out of relationships prematurely.

Each person creates boundaries and walls around the self - this often keeps even happiness at bay.

I don't like people; I don't let too many people into my life.

I usually feel that I prefer to hide from people.

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 don't know what's the matter with me, why I'm so adept at distance, why I feel so remote from things, why life feels like a rumor.

It used to hurt me when people said I was hiding in Wales.

I have always been a bit of a recluse, but I really was after the heart thing. And everyone knew.

People have all sorts of expectations which you can't meet. Me, I'm so reclusive I stay away from such things as much as I can. I never go anywhere.

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

Anger is useful only to a certain point. After that, it becomes rage, and rage will make you careless.

I'm never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You get angry at people when you feel that their acts are important. I don't feel that way any longer.

He lay back, put his arm over his eyes, and tried to hold onto the anger, because the anger made him feel brave. A brave man could think. A coward couldn't.

I began to draw an invisible boundary between myself and other people. No matter who I was dealing with. I maintained a set distance, carefully monitoring the person’s attitude so that they wouldn’t get any closer. I didn’t easily swallow what other people told me. My only passions were books and music

I want to undo this. To make it right. But I have no idea how. I don't seem to know how to open up to people without getting the door slammed in my face. So I do nothing.

And I am in retirement from love.

The only way I can cope with me and my environment is to have this kind of wall around me. I'm exhausting myself.