Guarded Behavior Quotes

You say you're a comedian, you always have to be on guard.

I think that, in comparison, New Yorkers and Northerners are so guarded.

I miss hanging out with my friends, getting in a little trouble. I have to be so guarded now.

I'd always maintained an image so that people wouldn't approach me.

I was a Versace perfume girl at Saks Fifth Avenue, and Rihanna actually came up to the counter and asked for something. And she wouldn't even take her sunglasses off! She was so mean to me. Not mean, but, like, guarded. I don't blame her, though.

I am happiest in public, working in my world. Then I can be the star. That I can do. When I am not working, I am more guarded, set apart. It's not my life, that. I like interactions, but interaction that is not forced.

Inevitably, anytime we are too vulnerable we feel the need to protect ourselves from further wounds. So we resort to sarcasm, cutting humor, criticism - anything that will keep from exposing the tenderness within. Each partner tends to wait on the initiative of the other for love, only to be disappointed but also confirmed as to the rightness of the accusations made.

You can't let everybody know your hand.

I shall be as secret as the grave.

This may come as a surprise, given the nature of my job, but I am very guarded and contemplative. I'm not a naturally boisterous person.

I don't think I'd have any friends if I didn't obscure at least 99% of my thoughts.

Don't let anyone see your vulnerable spots. Once they knew how to hurt you, they would do it again and again.

We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured. We must not expect a lively young man to be always so guarded and circumspect. It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does.

I'm definitely a closed book and that's extended through most of my life, not just football.

I can't be so guarded up all the time. I know it's not healthy.

Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.

You play your cards so close to your chest," said Shadow, "that I'm not even sure they're really cards at all.

He [Nico] regarded Jason, as if waiting for an attack. 'If the others found out-' 'If the others found out,' Jason said, 'You'd have that many more people to back you up, and to unleash the fury of the gods on anybody who gives you trouble.

We fear our neighbor's hostile mood because we are afraid that this mood will lead him to penetrate our secrets.

I move in silence. I don't like puttin' too much of me out there to be dissected, analyzed.

An artist's responsibility is a lot. I can't deny and escape from the responsibility. You have to be very guarded about your personal behaviour, future plans, etc.

A lot of men think that if they smile for a second, somebody will take advantage of them, and they are right.

And guys don't get attached, guys don't give themselves over completely, and guys lie. That's why they should be handled with great trepidation, not trusted, and held at arm's length whenever possible.

-- and it occurred to me that people who don't talk about themselves are limiting their own potential. They think they're guarding themselves for some sort of abstract dange, but they're actually allowing other people to decide who they are and what they're like.