Ron Perlman Quotes

The reason it's hard for me to tweet is I don't want to pronounce anything, and Twitter is for pronouncing.

With what all these people are saying, do you think that anybody wants to be around me? They all think that I did this on purpose? That I knew that I was positive, for so many years? I feel now that I'm going to be attacked if anybody sees me or if I go to the office.

It would probably break my heart to hear that people didn't like me. I don't look on the Internet.

You say something, things you would rather forget, and then they are out there. It makes me anxious and I don't know why people are interested in me anyway. If I had my way, I would rather exist in a little hole and not speak to anyone.

Even at age 10, I already knew that I was different from most people. My anxiety disorder was still years from being diagnosed, but it affected me quite deeply. I was too afraid to speak out in class, too nervous to make real friends.

Maybe I should pretend like I'm not insecure, but I really am. This movie is going to come out and... will people like it? Will they like Rey?

I wake up every morning at, like, seven or eight because I think that there's a bad story about me, and I have to check. My worst fear is waking up and finding something bad about me on the Internet.

Well, the truth is I'm very scared for people to dislike me. I have conflict-avoidance.

I get so nervous. I happen to be socially awkward and shy. I spent a lot of my time as an adult not going places.

I think I have a deep-seated fear of being misunderstood. Or being misjudged.

I think I've developed, as many people do, this sense of, 'Don't say the wrong thing, or else people will point at you and laugh.'

It's frightening to be facing an audience. There is always the fear of what they think of you, what they are saying about you.

People are always telling you you're done. Someone's always telling you that, especially now in the day of social media.

I'm not a social media person; I don't know what's going on unless somebody tells me.

I have a worry of people not liking me. I get scared walking into a room first, so I have to have people walk in before me so then people are distracted. It's hard.

People are scared to have a strong opinion because, with social media, almost everyone lives the life of a celebrity.

For most people, tweeting is scary.

I've always been such a private person. Even stepping into social media was a new world for me.

I get really self-conscious about people staring at me. It sounds so weird. As a performer, as an artist, these should be the things that I'm used to. But that's not the case. When people stare at me, I freak out.

For years I would sit on the side when my friends swam in the water. There is no feeling worse than that, to be afraid of what people will say about you, or to be embarrassed by who you are and what you are.

I don't like going out. I'm more of a watch TV, hang out, Netflix kind of guy. I don't like leaving; I don't like talking to people. It gives me anxiety.

Technology celebrates connectedness, but encourages retreat.

I don't really go to YouTube or, especially, participate in Facebook. I just really don't want to know that many people!

People are lonely. The network is seductive. But if we are always on, we may deny ourselves the rewards of solitude.

Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy. If you’re afraid you don’t commit yourself to life completely; fear makes you always, always hold something back. You shouldn’t be alone. It’s killing you; it’s undermining you. All the time, every day, you should be somewhere with people.