Louis Theroux Quotes

I think that when somebody tells you something of value, a lot of the time there's this thing that happens, and I don't know if you find it, where they go exactly for the word or the moment or the thing that you were hoping they wouldn't notice, or inside didn't feel 100 percent secure about. If they point it out, then that really sends you the message of, "Okay, I was trying to override my own instincts about it, and I guess I shouldn't."

I'm not in the what-people-feel business. It is not my place to guess.

Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.

I don't think I'm a chameleon. I can feel where people are coming from, what makes them tick, where they are vulnerable, what makes them feel good about themselves. I get just as much out of it as they do. I love connecting.

Clearly I'm able to read emotions. But I do feel... What is it? Awkwardness. I'm not a slick dude. That's what it comes down to. The nakedness, the guilelessness... that's quite real.

I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.

The constant monitoring of our emotional landscape and personal interactions is a bizarre concept. But it is one that could help many people.

I think that I have a sensitivity toward people, and that is a strength.

Indeed, I am repeatedly astonished by the number of really good writers who understand human beings so well on paper but don't know how to deal with them in real life.

I am a really sensitive person.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

Women, the way I see it, are very evolved people. They're more mature, they're more aware of their feelings, in touch with their feelings. They're connected to things that matter more in life. They know what's important. Men basically run around like idiots until we meet somebody who can show us that those things are important.

As I've gotten to know myself over the years, I realised I'm kind of a sweet, sensitive guy, a shy guy, and communication is not something I'm so good at.

Why has everything got to be about feelings these days? In the old days, no one knew what anyone was feeling and, what's more, they weren't expected to.

A lot of my friends and the people who know me know I'm a feeling person. I feel, deeply.

I am a sensitive person.

Feel provides an important channel of information.

Sensitivity doesn't necessarily make you easy to get on with.

I have a real hard time with inter-personal relationships. I find it really taxing. Especially, like, friendships and being in bands.

I am a very sensitive person.

I'm a very sensitive person.

As for 'drawing you out,' please believe I don't do such things deliberately, with an object -- It's only that I am, as a rule, far more interested in people than they are in me -- But it makes me a nuisance, I know: only an innocent nuisance.

I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person.

I find people confusing.