Sarah Silverman Quotes

Of course I had friends, but it was very limiting because there was always a chance that at every corner, someone would be laughing at me or waiting to beat me up. I had a very lonely childhood because of that.

Even at age 10, I already knew that I was different from most people. My anxiety disorder was still years from being diagnosed, but it affected me quite deeply. I was too afraid to speak out in class, too nervous to make real friends.

Doubt is the brother of shame.

I grew up very insecure. From the time I was little I used to hide under my mother's dress.

When I was younger, I used to be super, super shy. I still find myself being scared of things.

Am I about to feel really, really stupid?

I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people.

It's true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found the company of others, especially other boys, quite terrifying and upsetting.

I always think that I've embarrassed myself.

I was a very shy child. I remember being in a kindergarten open house with my mother and children saying 'Hi' to me, and I still remember feeling this way - but I don't know why - but I wouldn't even say 'Hi' back. I was that shy.

I was the kind of kid, I'd sit in the back row of the class with my head practically under the desk. I was incredibly afraid of people and very shy.

I didn't tell anyone in school that I was going to be in 'Skins.' I was terrified of them putting me down.

As a child, I was afraid of everything. My parents were shy, the kind of people for whom it is an ordeal to go and buy some bread or whatever.

For years I would sit on the side when my friends swam in the water. There is no feeling worse than that, to be afraid of what people will say about you, or to be embarrassed by who you are and what you are.

I have experienced loneliness at many, many points in my life and felt this profound sense of shame about it - all the years when I was a child that I struggled with feeling lonely when I was scared to go to school and petrified of walking into the elementary school cafeteria because I was worried I wouldn't have anyone to sit with.

I was really self conscious as a kid, I felt terrible - like a prisoner in my own body.

I'm so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.

Yes, and I had pimples so badly it used to make me so shy. I used not to look at myself. I'd hide my face in the dark, I wouldn't want to look in the mirror and my father teased me and I just hated it and I cried everyday.

Don't forget, I was the soft, pudgy kid in school that everyone made fun of.

When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.

I think the idea of losing your hair is still very potent, emotional thing.

Westerners, more than most Asians, are prone to feelings of fear, self-hatred, and unworthiness.

I've spent my life being embarrassed.

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.

It's a terrible way to live, to be closeted, to always be worried about being found out. To live this double life is really trying.