Todd Barry Quotes

I wish that people had an opportunity to watch me 24/7, like on 'Big Brother.' You'd see a person who is quiet and reserved and very analytical - a huge observer.

When I first read the words 'introvert' and 'extrovert' when I was 10, I thought I was both.

I think for the longest time I used to be kind of embarrassed that if I hung out with someone that had a really, really strong personality, I would end up accidentally catching myself talking like them.

I've always tried to figure out what people think of themselves and what they think they're projecting.

I've read a lot of different versions of myself - and all of them are true because it's all opinion, and they're as accurate as it can ever be. But I don't think that I've been deft at hiding parts of my personality.

Character is that sum total of moments we can't explain.

My actual personality probably lies someplace between the two.

I just think the more we're observed by other people, the less we can observe them in order to play them and find their true condition.

I have to remind myself constantly to not be antisocial, because I stay to myself a lot. I'm a lot more introspective than my characters.

I just love to impersonate people, and I impersonate people because I find them fascinating.

I don't think my life would be significantly poorer if I don't impersonate Nick Clegg. Life is short enough without sitting up night after night listening to tapes of him.

It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

I'm an introspective person. I'm not an extrovert.

I'm not extremely outgoing, but I'm average, I think. When people meet me they'll say, 'Oh you're not that shy...' I never said I was! I see where they're coming from because my biggest single was about being shy at a party - I get it. But it's not 100% accurate.

I have this idea of myself as this quiet, observant, thoughtful child, which my parents roundly contradict. They claim that I was loud and bossy and dancing all the time.

I'm not proud to be me, I'm not excited to be me, but I find that I am me, and like most other individuals, I send out little signals; I tell everyone else how everything looks from where I am.

I'm actually much more shy and self-conscious than people's perception of me.

I like to think I'm a listener, and I'm fascinated by observing people - I suppose you just lock that in.

I am an introvert. I should get that out there now.

I've learnt that, sometimes, how others see you is not the same as how you see yourself. I've learnt about how you can be multitasking - and sometimes other people see that you're multitasking. And that's not very nice for them.

If you're very open to watching the world go by, with people's different tics, you absorb it all without realizing it and find ways to put something into your character. I'm not sure I'm always aware I'm mimicking someone.

I think in Mrs. C, I certainly played myself. A very compulsive, sweet person.

It's hard for me to characterise myself. I think I'm balanced. Some people might say I'm cold-hearted.

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.

The first half of life is spent mainly in finding out who we are through seeing ourselves in our interaction with others.