Neil Cross Quotes

I don't trust anyone... It's something that I have to live with, and I have to find the balance of who I want in my life and who isn't good for me.

Fear has been my biggest friend. Fear of the unknown. Whenever I've been afraid, I've been very self-protective.

It's hard for me to trust people, and especially girls it's - I don't really like doing the whole opening-up thing with girls.

I don't think you can protect anything in your life, let alone your image.

If you are insecure, then you can't be friends with anyone.

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

I'm a woman who carries around all these layers of fear and vulnerability.

I wish I had put myself out there a little bit more and experienced people more instead of protecting myself.

I never trusted anybody at all. I don't know why it was so hard, I just didn't.

I have lived so long among people who do not understand me, been so long accustomed to refrain and disguise myself for fear of being laughed at, that I have grown as difficult to come at as a snail in a shell; and what is worse, I cannot come out of my shell when I wish it.

There are stars who are proficiently paranoid enough to hide what they really think. I can't.

No one has got close enough to use or abuse me, and even if they did, I wouldn't get too emotional about it. The only thing I ever get emotional about is my family. I am kind to everyone but I trust no one. That keeps me from getting hurt.

I always thought that feminine, softer side was just too vulnerable to put out there, because then it's like you're opening up a door for everybody to come in, and you don't know who's going to come in that door.

I'm often troubled by a very strong instinct to share everything that's going on with me. I want to feel that connection, even with people I don't know. Then this other voice says, 'That's not prudent. People will use what you've said to hurt you.'

Protect yourself like you would your cubs - as a grown woman, you're no one's cub anymore.

I won't put myself in a position where I'm vulnerable.

I wish I trusted people more. But when I meet someone, the first thing is, 'What does this person want?' And I put up a defense mechanism. But I've always been that way.

I don't want to think about how many people have thought or still think that I'm crazy.

I'm no different to anyone else; I want people to like me. I just don't particularly want them to understand me.

It's easier to shut yourself off outside than reveal your inner thoughts.

I was a timid little guy when I was a kid. I used humor as a defense; I became the class clown. But deep inside, I felt real vulnerable.

I was very unique as a child, dressed a certain way, acted a certain way, didn't fit in with everybody. So I immediately got picked on, especially around the age of 12 and 13, when you start going to junior high and start mingling with the older kids. To counteract that, strictly for self-defense, I wanted to get bigger.

The only way I could get comfortable around people was to make them laugh. I was an obedient girl, and humor was my one form of rebellion. I used comedy to deflect. Like, 'Hey, check out my zit!' - you know, making fun of yourself before someone else has a chance to.

If you are a card-carrying human being, chances are that you share the same fear as all other humans: the fear of losing love, respect and connection to others. And if you are human, in order to avoid or prevent the pain, trauma and perceived devastation of the loss, you will do anything to avoid your greatest fear from being visited on you.