Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes

I have a high degree of sensitivity, always have. I was very shy as a child. I don't know why that was.

Putting myself into categories is fun, and I think it also gives me insight into my own nature. When I see myself more clearly, I can more easily see ways that I might do things differently, to make myself happier. Categories can be unhelpful, however, when they become too all-defining, or when they become an excuse.

I'm basically a professional nerd, and I'm still not cool. I'm around people who are cool sometimes, and I know I'm not them. But that's OK; I don't care.

I'd change nothing in my career path. I was never built for being a handsome teenage star. That's just not in my psyche, I think. I would have hated to have grown up famous.

I didn't overcome my shyness. I am still shy.

I'm a very shy, introverted person.

I wasn't the cool kid in school, but I wasn't the lame one. I knew I wasn't cool, so I called myself lame, and that's what made me cool in front of the cool kids.

But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime. I know everything worth knowing about myself--" ~Something Wicked This Way Comes

People have asked me about playing outsiders. I don't consider myself an outsider. Maybe that's why I'm interested in that. I'm not really sure.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

I can't stand outside myself and be anybody else.

My personality doesn't interest me.

Many introverts feel there's something wrong with them, and try to pass as extroverts. But whenever you try to pass as something you're not, you lose a part of yourself along the way. You especially lose a sense of how to spend your time.

It's not that easy to find someone I can relate too. I'm tough to crack because I'm shy.

I am a very shy, introverted guy.

I realised that to compare your insides with other people's outsides leads to unhappiness.

I think I'm happy with who I am. I don't know if I learned that from other girls or just people in general.

I've got my feet firmly on the ground, I can't see life changing too much. I reckon more girls will talk to me at college and more people will look at me, but they know me for who I am.

No-one has ever called me a cool dude. I'm somewhere between geek and normal.

I guess I was popular in high school.

I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn't say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don't know myself at all yet.

I grew up being very shy, very much a bookworm, and I remember desperately wondering how to be accepted by the popular kids.

I definitely have come out of my shell a lot more. When you question who you are, you can't be proud of who you are. Now that I'm trying to peel off those layers and really understand who I am, I don't have anything to be shy about.

I always considered myself really non-confrontational and shy and introverted.

I was very shy and withdrawn as a child, but people know me as these assertive women. They are not me.