Ernie Banks Quotes

Touring is just not normal for me. My personality is to never ever talk to people if I can help it.

I don't like crowds or attention.

I was very shy - I didn't speak to anyone outside of my family until the fourth grade.

I tended to be the nerdy kid - stood at the back, watching other people having fun - I wasn't always necessarily a big part of the fun myself.

I can understand wanting to be invisible and mistrusting people and wanting to understand everything before you engage with the world.

I don't get as much female attention as you'd think, because I never go out.

I've never had friends, and I don't like to be around big groups of people.

I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.

As a human being, you know that there are some days when you'd rather not talk to anybody - but I can't really do that anymore without appearing rude.

I'm shy and can't for the life of me barge around and slap people on the back. I sit in a corner by myself and am tickled to death when someone comes over to talk to me.

When you are shy, you live a lot in your own head.

I have days where the only words I say are to the person making my sandwich at the grocery store.

I'm not very interested in people. I recognize it in myself - there is a basic indifference toward people.

We all fall into our habits, our routines, our ruts. They're used quite often, consciously or unconsciously, to avoid living, to avoid doing the messy part of having relationships with other people, of dealing with a person next to us. That's why we can all be in a room on our cell phones and not have to deal with one another.

I've always been relatively reserved with my social encounters.

I can go days without meaningful human interaction.

I might just stop talking again and not do interviews.

I don't go on lunch dates with friends. I hear about people having dinner parties, but I never do that. I'm not really human.

I was always such a people-watcher. I would sit on street corners alone and watch people and make up stories about them in my head. Then, all of a sudden, I was the one being watched.

I could go days, weeks, without talking to another human being.

People aren't throwing themselves at me, but I also don't go out very much. Like, when I do go out, it's for breakfast, so it's a little hard to throw yourself at me during breakfast.

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.

I simply wanted to get through college as quickly as humanly possible. I had no interest in extracurricular activities or anything that required me to be social. I was allergic to people.

When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.

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