Isaac Marion Quotes

It is strange: I love to be in front of the audience, but I have this opposite side that is afraid of meeting people, that doesn't want to talk. I feel it's like having a little hard stone inside me of problems, doubts, and shyness.

I worry that's what people are going to think about me if they kind of go backwards. But if that didn't happen to you, I'll feel better.

Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say

Every time I perform in front of people, no matter how well it goes, the next day, I feel humiliated.

I like talking. I didn't know at the time I would have to worry so much about my hair.

I worry that I can come off smarmy. I wonder if I was listening to myself if I'd want to kick my own ass.

The last thing in the world I should have done was go into the theater because was inordinately shy as a young man. I couldn't open my mouth. At a party, I was the one stuck up against the wall. I was embarrassed about talking. I felt that I couldn't talk well.

Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.

I sometimes lack confidence in public, although I am proud enough inwardly.

It's hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I'm talking to them.

I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I'm annoying, and a phony.

When the attention is on me, off-camera, I get uncomfortable - sort of shy and at a loss for words, as you can probably tell?

I know I mispronounce things constantly, because maybe I read more than I talk, but I don't know the proper way to say a lot of things, even though I know what they are. But then I know I look like a moron.

I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera.

My egotistical concern was less that I would fail to relate to my classmates than that they would know nothing of my uniquely tortured life's course and, thus, me.

I can be shy when I talk to women. I'm a shy dude.

I guess I am actually quite shy, and I've always felt very self-conscious during interviews.

I am very self-conscious a lot of the time.

But inside, I'm going, 'Oh my God, is my zipper up? Do I have a booger in my nose?' That's my inner monologue.

Everyone's projecting onto you, or you feel like everyone is judging you. I feel like I'm being judged a lot of the time. You become really self-conscious.

The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an ordeal for me.

You know why I fear people's judgment? Because I know they're judging. I know they are.

At parties, I'll start talking and notice everyone is looking at me and feel dumb and say, 'Forget it,' and then start eating things.

I am shyer than most people think.

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.