Bono Quotes

I still get nervous on dates. I'll be sitting at dinner with a guy and I have to excuse myself and go to the bathroom because I can't breathe.

I'm so nervous. I've always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.

I get nervous around famous people.

Mari remembered what she had read in the young girl's eyes the moment she had come into the refectory: fear. Fear. Veronika might feel insecurity, shyness, shame, constraint, but why fear? That was only justifiable when confronted by a real threat: ferocious animals, armed attackers, earthquakes, but not a group of people gathered together in a refectory. But human beings are like that,' she thought. 'We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear.

I'm very Canadian. I want everyone to love me, and I just get nervous.

Shyness is a curious thing, because, like quicksand, it can strike people at any time, and also, like quicksand, it usually makes its victims look down.

I was and I always shall be hampered by what I think other people will say.

Her chief dread in life, at this period of her development, was that she would appear narrow minded; what she feared next afterwards was that she should be so.

For paranoia about 'what other people think' : remember that only some hate, a very few love - and almost all just don't care.

Sometimes I'll be confident and go into a shop and say, "Hello, yeah, all right," and then the next day, if someone looks at me or talks to me, I just don't know what to do. If you're walking down the street with a baseball cap, you might be fine. But if you're in a pub and you see someone look at you, you think the worst thing in the world now is if they come over. It's a really weird feeling.

You're always nervous about how a film lands with an audience.

At some point, you realize that people might be laughing at your jokes because they're afraid not to laugh.

I remember my first meeting with Guillermo Del Toro - he couldn't have been warmer, but I always had a kind of immaturity about me dealing with people that were in charge. Not really knowing how to conduct myself. And I got on the floor and curled up into a ball under a desk, which is so weird - as I was doing it, I was like, "Oh, my god, you're a freak. Get up. What are you doing?" And I looked at him like, "I'm so sorry," and he's like, "No, it's natural. Why wouldn't you want to do that?" He's just the most giving person and made me feel not like a freak.

I am terribly shy, but of course no one believes me. Come to think of it, neither would I.

My heart goes out to anyone who is making his first appearance before an audience of human beings.

You can tell how nervous I am by how fast I am talking!

I'm behind you." I spun to see Derek. "I can't win," he said. "You're as skittish as a kitten.

I'm always nervous before a job! I always think I'm going to be fired, I always think I can't do it. I always think I'm going to disappoint somebody, myself included.

I was so self -conscious, every time football players went into a huddle, I thought they were talking about me.

Part of the problem is that he lacks confidence. He is nervous.

I get nervous before everything - dates, filming, awards shows.

The greatest prison people live in is the fear of what other people think.

I'm a total wreck. Afraid to let anyone near. Afraid they'll see the real me.

I can be such a people pleaser, and so worried about what people are thinking or feeling insecure.

Many people allow their need for other people's approval to control their lives. They spend their lives worrying about what others think of them.