It's about trying to step out of being patterned and closed off and reclusive, which I've always had a problem with. It's about attempting to be normal and just go out and be around other people and hang out. I have a tendency to sometimes be pretty closed off and not see people for long periods of time and not call anyone.
There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.
In relationships, I'm usually the one who's like, 'Oh, I don't need this right now. I don't need commitment. I can do well on my own. I'm independent,' and all this stuff, and I realized recently that that was making me really closed off to relationships and just closed off to anyone no matter who they were.
I'm not super open to new people. I have a small group of people I trust. I'm very intuitive, so I'm good at feeling out how people are, like if they have bad intentions. Sometimes I'm very closed off, which annoys me, but I think it's for the best.
Sometimes I definitely shut people out. I can be that sort of girlfriend who crosses her arms, shakes her head and says, "Nope, I'm not telling you what's wrong. I'm fine."
I think any woman who has lost a child and certainly lost more than one child, there's going to be a part of them that they keep closed off forever.
I'm the kind of person who doesn't let anyone in easily.
Two girls called me closed minded. I tell them that they are so open-minded their brains leaked out.
Steve Buscemi, in between takes, becomes like a clam. It's hard to get a word out of him. It's very funny.
I am ill at ease with people whose lives are an open book.
Each time I changed, it was as if, on purpose, I didn’t want anyone to know too much about me, which of course now I regret, because I closed myself to everything. But it was my way of dealing with things.
Some people are like that - closed - they can't learn from anyone. Us, for example, we can't learn anything, neither I from you nor you from me, nor from anyone, nor from anything, nor from what happens.
He's very concealed, Polanski. We became very close friends, but I don't think I ever saw him drop his guard. I didn't see him upset or anything like that, we just did the work.
I think that being open, in general, is really important. If you're not, you close yourself off to experiences.
I definitely can relate to being down and closed-off at certain times in my life.
The film industry not only in India but also Hollywood is insular. It's inward-looking.
Most of the time, I don't really give people a chance. I have a wall up. I'm always protecting who I am. Thinking about my brand. I make it hard on people. Sometimes, it's a good thing. Sometimes, it's a bad thing.
I'm a happy-go-lucky character. I'm not that miserable. But I can never let anyone into my world.
There are people that have closed themselves off so much because they've been hurt so much in their lives.
I'm a very secretive person. That's how I grew up. My father was very secretive.
I feel like people who are guarded and shut off, I feel like they should have to wear a button that says, "shut down", "guarded" or something.
I think that U.K. audiences, in general, are very closed off. Very judgmental.
My father was hard to know and gave little indication that there was much to know. He claimed he remembered almost nothing about his childhood.
They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.
But if you are going to wear blinders then you do not know the world.
