Leslie Jordan Quotes

I've never had a very great public life.

At my very core, I'm pretty shy. I just happen to have a weird job.

I'm extremely introverted. I used to think it was shyness, but I got over that, so it must be door No. 2. It's still hard for me to be away from home much, and I have to make sure I get lots of time alone in my room when I'm touring.

I don't live with earplugs. I don't like the spotlight - but I like overhearing conversations.

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 wasn't always this introverted.

People tend to think that because I need all this time on my own in the studio, that I need time on my own, period. And that's not really true.

As a point of fact, I am not used to making frequent appearances in public, except at times when it is required.

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

I'm not such a public person.

I often feel that I have a split personality. I love more than anything to be in my study writing, but when it's time to do a book tour, I love that extroverted part, too - talking to people, reading, traveling, going out into the world.

My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

As I was writing, I realised I wasn't sufficiently extrovert to gather enough interesting souls with tall tales around me. I was no Louis Theroux. But neither was I interested in exploring my inner life in public, in the manner of a Jonathan Raban.

I've become more introverted as I've got older. I used to be an outgoing person who joked around a lot, but as the amount of energy I expend by sharing my music has increased, I like to balance it by spending time by myself and recuperating.

I used to be really insular, really introverted. I couldn't articulate myself.

I had this idea that being an introvert was a negative thing, that it had a negative connotation, and I really wanted, as a young person, to strive to be the life of the party and to be really outgoing and to have a million friends. And then I realized that an introvert isn't a negative.

I'm not great... in large groups of people, but I'm not shy anymore.

Stiles is a version of me that rarely exists in the real world. He's so confident and extroverted, and I'm much more restrained and internal.

I just don't get out as much as people think I do.

I am, by nature, pretty reserved. It was after I became an actor that I started interacting more with people from different walks of life!

There's a social element of me that's pretty reserved. High school was when I was starting to come out of my shell because of the theater community.

Just because you can leap off a drum kit doing a scissors kick while hitting a chord, people expect you to be an extrovert socially. But I'm not always comfortable with the idea of small talk at a party.

I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.

Extroverts never understand introverts, and it was like that in school days. I read recently that all of us can be defined in adult life by the way others perceived us in high school.

I was very, very shy in public and school, and quite loud and brash at home.