John Darnielle Quotes

I'm a private person and hate making friends.

I'm antisocial - there's no question about it.

I don't like crowds or attention.

I can lack communication with people. I shy away from everybody. I always want to be alone.

The biggest problem I have doing my acting is having to interact with other people. I think if it wasn't for my wife and my kids, I'd probably be a hermit.

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

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

I'm not such a public person.

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.

Basically, I am an anti-social person.

I'm very introverted. Easily a few days could go by where I would not really leave the house or talk to anybody other than my partner.

I usually feel that I prefer to hide from people.

I have been a loner... even when I was working, you would hardly see me at any parties - unless once a year, if I have to attend some big function.

I'm basically as shy a person as I was when I once worked in an office in London in the late Sixties. I like my own company. I didn't need a lot of friends.

I don't socialise. My social life is minus zero.

I can't even lie: Sometimes, I be antisocial.

I don't go around making conversation, I just kind of stick to myself.

I don't want to be looked at. I really want to be a home body.

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

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 was an extremely reclusive and introverted boy.

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

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.