Chris Bosh Quotes

When you lose work, the meaning and purpose of life are taken away from you, and isolation can set in.

I tried to be really tough when I was younger. I felt I had to stand up for myself. I never felt like I fit in.

Nobody notices me. Nobody thinks I'm me. But then I look less like me than most of the people coming to our concerts.

Loneliness and rootlessness are just symptoms of an insecurity that assails us all when hitting this midlife moment. The world appears intent on blanking you out.

I worry that I am not really a person anymore: I'm more of just a writing machine. I wonder what that has done to either my life and or my art.

I always have an adjustment period where I'm so happy to be home, but then my sense of purpose is totally gone.

Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.

I was a very, I think, lonely kid, very introspective. I felt very much at odds with my environment and my culture... Probably a genetic flaw. I can't really explain it.

It's tough being me.

If I'm honest I don't think the world would miss me if I never acted again.

I liked myself better when I wasn't me.

I think we all feel like misfits when we open our mouth sometimes, you know?

Everyone has strange teenage years. It's not like I can claim some particularly unique set of high school horrors. I think I was just an awkward kid who never felt comfortable in his own skin. I think I was alone a lot by circumstance and then by choice.

There is a shyness about me, and I really need to get out more.

I think it hurt my performance because I stopped being me. That won't ever happen again.

You create a world away from home and make new rooms for yourself. But when you arrive back home in your old rooms, the world you've made for yourself ceases to be real. Everything seems to crumble. Anyone who's been sent away to boarding school can understand that.

At some point in our lives there's something about every one of us that makes us feel like an outsider, I believe.

Try to imagine a character like Batman whose whole life has been about fighting crime, whose whole existence and identity is his war against criminals, and he wakes up one morning to discover there are no criminals. What happens to him?

I went through a period of pulling away from everything - acting, people - not sure if I would ever have a voice in this business.

I still feel like no one knows who I am. I still feel anonymous.

Growing up, I didn't feel cool; I didn't fit into any crowd.

I don't ever feel like anybody knows who I am.

I can relate to having those people in your life that you feel are moving on to this great, big, normal life and you're like, 'What's wrong with me?'

I felt like, 'How do I fit in?' But then I never fit in. The whole time, I've never fit in.

Took me a long time to know I was a nobody from nowhere.