Bob Mortimer Quotes

People are usually afraid to say what's on their mind.

My shyness probably defined the first 30 years of my life, really. It's a crippling thing. It can be very lonely knowing that you've got things to say, but you daren't say them.

Who, with tame cowardice familiar grown, would hear my thoughts, but fear to speak their own.

The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally.

I'm terrified of losing my voice.

I'm scared of saying something that may get taken the wrong way.

I have lived so long among people who do not understand me, been so long accustomed to refrain and disguise myself for fear of being laughed at, that I have grown as difficult to come at as a snail in a shell; and what is worse, I cannot come out of my shell when I wish it.

And so I missed those best years and I find it difficult for me, in groups, to be comfortable.

There's something about being rejected - when I go out without my friends, I'm reminded of how I'm actually quite antisocial. I don't look like a guy who feels like that, but it's very hard for me to start up a conversation. At a party, I'm lost.

Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.

I kind of keep my personality in my pocket a lot. When I start to do stand-up, that's not my true personality either. It's the personality of a guy who hasn't been able to say what he wanted to say.

Oh my God, I never really tweet, but there's a moment every day I write one and then delete it.

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

You're always tellin' me to go out more, Go ahead, get out and see the world, But then I think, why should I? I'd rather stay home and cry.

The only thing I can do is act, but it's not something I even feel comfortable doing. It costs me a lot, because I'm a shy person, even if I don't look it.

I was afraid to express myself for a while.

I'm not the guy who bursts into the room. I'm the most insecure person you'll meet if you get to know me.

I was painfully shy as a child.

All of my jokes were about not being able to meet anybody. I didn't have any insight into anything - even my own insecurities.

Because I am basically so insecure and anxious and afraid, I never, ever in my life learned to reach out for help, ever.

You hear people say, 'Well, I was going to say this, but I knew I couldn't get through it without crying.' Well, like, think of all the great things we didn't hear because of that.

I'm a silly little needy person sometimes, and I crouch in a room all alone and think of all the people that I wish were with me.

It's not that I don't like other people - I do. I just don't like me.

I was a wallflower. I never talked to anybody. I was so afraid of people, I never said a word.

I was painfully self-obsessed and self-aware. I wanted people to love me but at the same time I was terrified of them.