I'm a serious-minded and intense little devil, terribly gauche and so tense I don't see how people stay in the same room with me. I know I wouldn't tolerate myself.
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PAOLO SORRENTINO Amongst my friends, I am known as the most cynical person they know - I'm incredibly cynical. I ... NIGEL COLE I don't do the L.A. scene. I stay focused and very myopic. I don't feel I need to prove myse... TAYLOR KITSCH I don't think of myself as funny. I think of myself as rather grave, actually. And I'm suspi... HUGH LAURIE I'm not doing no more 'Flavor of Loves.' I'm trying to grow. I don't want to sta... FLAVOR FLAV I'm not a pretty person. I don't like pretty, so I don't feel badly. Most of the world i... IRIS APFEL I don't call myself a very good Christian, but I think I know one when I see one, and I also thi... MADISON SMARTT BELL I'm cool with the way I look, I'm not an ugly dog, but I don't see myself as a stud or a... SEANN WILLIAM SCOTT I Googled 'What do rich people buy?' Because I don't feel like a rich person, and I don&... J. J. WATT I wouldn't let a biopic be made on me. That's because I don't believe in them. I don'... 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