John Gordon Sinclair Quotes

Touring is just not normal for me. My personality is to never ever talk to people if I can help it.

I don't like to socialise much.

I am essentially a recluse who will have very little to do with people wherever he may be. I think that most people only make me nervous - that only by accident, and in extremely small quantities, would I ever be likely to come across people who wouldn't.

I don't do well in social environments.

It is difficult for me to make friends because of my nature.

I think I am very anti-social.

I usually feel that I prefer to hide from people.

I was so shy, I didn't have friends 'til 16 or something.

I don't make friends easily.

I'm shy. I'm not sociable. I'm very insecure.

I am really a very shy person. If I appear, it is because of the music, not because I want to be seen.

I don't get as much female attention as you'd think, because I never go out.

I've never had friends, and I don't like to be around big groups of people.

I'm shy and can't for the life of me barge around and slap people on the back. I sit in a corner by myself and am tickled to death when someone comes over to talk to me.

I'm an introvert at heart... And show business - even though I've loved it so much - has always been hard for me.

I was almost tragically shy, like, clinically. I should've been admitted somewhere. I think my parents knew, but maybe they didn't think much about it. It's hard walking the Earth shy. You miss out on a lot.

You're standing onstage in a sold-out arena with people singing your music, and you feel like the loneliest person in the world. Because here's a party that, essentially, it's for you. And you still somehow feel like you don't belong there. Those people all have their lives and go back home.

I'm a very shy person and I never tried to do theater.

I sense from people that they get frustrated with me for not being out and about. But I guess I'm a shy boy.

I'm a little more shy and not comfortable dancing in front of a large crowd.

Some people love being onstage and really open up, and I'm sort of the opposite of that. I don't crave the spotlight. I'm still not comfortable even talking onstage.

I am honestly very intimidated when I meet new people and they expect me to be the onscreen Vir. On stage, I say a lot of things I might never say in real life; I am never the life of the party. People are quite surprised to see that I am more of a quiet artiste off stage.

I had become shy of life's bustle in my solitary retreat and was apprehensive at the thought of facing the world.

It was very natural for me to want to disappear into dark theater, I am really very shy. That is something that people never seem to fully grasp because, when you are an actor, you are meant to be an exhibitionist.

I don't perform well in private. Socially, I mean. And I didn't as a child. Actors aren't necessarily outgoing, are they?