Kathryn Hahn Quotes

Just being a normal person and having a social life involves a lot of dishonesty for me.

Don't we all just really try to fake it well?

I've been pretending to be a man that I'm not my entire life. I've been pretending to be strong when I felt weak, confident when I felt insecure and tough when really I was hurting. And I can tell you right now that it is exhausting.

Before I came out, I had a lot of anger. For years people would ask, 'How are you doing?' and I'd say, 'Good, fine.' It's show business, and that's what you have to show.

Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?

People are sad. People are broke. People are worried about money, people are worried that they're not enough and not amounting to anything and they don't feel good about themselves. People have rough times, and everybody's pretending it's not true, and we need to break that veneer.

If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.

Some days, for some reason, I can't go anywhere, and I'm like, 'That was a mistake,' and other days no one will even notice me.

When not deeply engaged in creative activities, or numbed out by the TV, I felt empty. My heart hurt. I often felt hollow or as if I were some sort of wispy ghost, barely existing.

The hardest thing in the world is to watch someone you love really not be able to get themselves together and really struggle on a level so bad when it seems and it appears that they have it all.

When you're happy, and you're smiling people don't like that. That's why I smile all the time.

I'm a very creative person, but that side of me was suppressed because I was academic. I was depressed at school, and I didn't know why.

I've always been comfortable with my gayness, but I was intimidated by the social anxiety.

Fame made me insecure and insular. I wanted to run away from being me.

There are times when I'm kind of anti-social, I'm just really shy, and I don't feel like I fit in, and I then attribute that to some emotional state that's crippling me.

I used to isolate myself and be in my room by myself all the time.

I could come in the gym to train with the boys and they'd think I was alright, but I'd go home and sit there crying.

I spent the first 33 years of my life with secrets, and lots of them. I spent a great deal of energy worrying over what people thought and obscuring the things I was ashamed of... trying to appear what I thought was normal.

Pretending to be 'normal' is a lot harder than you think.

I was deeply unhappy, but I didn't know it because I was so happy all the time.

What makes me deeply vulnerable? Probably the thing I suffer most from and have the most uncontrollable reactions from is still social anxiety.

I may never have a normal life again.

I'm always sad.

Online, I'm this loud, outrageous, confident guy who acts like nothing bothers him, and he has the whole world at his fingertips. In reality, I'm a shy, quiet guy who would rather spend his nights lying in bed watching Netflix than being a valuable member of society.

It's about showing up. And sometimes I don't do it. I almost always regret it, but sometimes I don't do it. Sometimes I walk into a situation where I'm intimidated and I want to be liked and I want to fit in, and I don't choose authenticity. And it's always pretty miserable.