The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
I think it's always good for gay people to come out, but it's also understandable why people might choose not to do so.
Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.
There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.
I'm self-loathing, introverted, and neurotic.
Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
Back in 1993, I was studying in Delhi, and I had a girlfriend. I had never touched a girl before that in my entire life. One day, I decided to go out with her to a garden. We were sitting beside each other, and I just glanced around to see if anyone was looking at us, and I put my hand over hers. I thought love started in this way.
I'm afraid that people who know me as I usually am will discover I have another side, a better and finer side. I'm afraid they'll mock me, think I'm ridiculous and sentimental and not take me seriously. I'm used to not being taken seriously, but only the 'light-hearted' Anne is used to it and can put up with it; the 'deeper' Anne is too weak.
I don't like to play live. And if I don't like to do it, why should I?
I don't like people; I don't let too many people into my life.
It's kind of scary making a faith-based film.
Perhaps I fear him because I could love him again, and in loving him, I would come to need him, and in needing him, I would again be his faithful pupil in all things, only to discover that his patience for me is no substitute for the passion which long ago blazed in his eyes.
When a man learns to love, he must bear the risk of hatred.
My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn't know.
I was so shy when I was younger. When I first went to Liverpool I didn't say a word for a year.
Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us.
Looking back on my early romantic life, I was more worried about what impression I made on my dates than what I thought of them. I would approach them as though they were job interviews, trying to wow the man so that he would ask me out again and I got the 'job.'
I was just genuinely shy. I'd always been a shy kid.
I'm very comfortable speaking to millions of people, but not comfortable in a small, intimate social setting. Like cocktail hour. I get very panicky.
I always think that I've embarrassed myself.
I'm a very nervous, shy person.
I'm an extraordinarily anxious person. I'm a typical actor: narcissistic and paranoid and all them things.
I'm a coward when it comes to matters of the heart. That is my fatal flaw.
The make-up and the costumes were me being scared. I needed to create a boundary between me and the audience. To project this bigger version of myself. Outwardly, it looked good, but inwardly, I began to feel horrible.
I always felt like the rug could be pulled out from under me at anytime. And coming from a racially mixed background, I always felt like I didn't really fit in anywhere.
