Unwillingness to Participate Quotes

If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.

I'm not very sociable. If I get invited to a glamorous event I probably won't go. That world does not really appeal to me.

And that's not something I'm willing to support, it's not something I'm willing to build and it's not something I'm willing to live under.

I do this thing at every party: I go to a party, I stand around for, like, 45 minutes, and then I turn to my wife and say, 'I think we should go home.' And then we leave, and then I wake up the next morning and say to my wife, 'We don't go out anymore.' It's a great trick.

I couldn't think of anything worse than going to a fancy dress party. So, if somebody invited me to one, I'd go as the Invisible Man and not turn up.

Now, two years have passed and the situation is completely different: no one wants to organise this match.

People come to me to say I don't sell; Brazilian media say I don't give interviews. Nobody is obligated to do anything.

I'm just not comfortable with that society stuff. I mean, we were just invited to the White House, but my husband won't take me because he knows I don't want to go.

I hate partying. If I'm forced to go to a party or a social gathering, I go in at 9:30 and leave at 10 P.M.

I don't do karaoke. I don't dance, even at weddings. I'm the grumpy one sitting down drinking wine.

If I actually invited someone to make a documentary about me, and I said, 'Anything goes', and then I refused to answer any questions, that would be inconsistent.

Some people criticise me for not being animated enough, for sitting in stands and not showing any passion. I come down, get involved in a couple of situations and all of a sudden, it's a slightly different angle.

I am very short-sighted, and if I don't like a situation I take my glasses off.

I never wanted anything to do with the theatre as a child. I was dragged there under duress.

I am in denial about sport. I refuse to accept that I watch it. I am not the kind of man who watches sport.

I didn't realise how much I was alienating people. I would constantly refuse to go out when friends would call. At one point, I didn't realise I was at home for a week.