Scarlett Thomas Quotes

I always feel as if I'm a disappointment: that people want a grand dame in furs like Barbara Taylor Bradford.

Sometimes I'll be sitting on Facebook at home and see all these people getting married, having kids, having that life that I was told I should have. And sometimes I feel like I'm doing something wrong. Am I the stupid one here? Am I not doing what I'm supposed to do? And that's also equally as stressful.

Oh, there's a teenage girl inside all women. It comes out mainly when we walk into a room filled with other women and immediately feel self-conscious. I do, anyway. I'm always convinced I'm going to fall flat on my face or something.

The amount of people that I feel like... I'm not being self-demeaning, but I actually feel like I'm not as cool as them, you know what I mean?

I hope people don't get tired of looking at me.

In my twenties, I was a bit of a worrier; it bothered me what people thought of me, what job I was doing.

It's really hard to see yourself and to recognize that you are a human being like everybody else. You just think everybody's judging you.

I always feel like I'm missing out on something, that someone is having more fun than I am, so I take measures to make sure that is impossible.

All of my friends are really good dancers, which was initially why I never danced - we'd go out, and they would kill it, and I'd be like, 'Yeah, I'm just gonna sit at the bar.'

I always felt slightly grubbier than most American people. I was never quite as groomed as everyone else, never quite as fit as anyone else. I didn't have my protein shake and my vitamins.

There's a difference between wanting to appear confident and actually feeling confident. I think there have been many times when I've overcompensated for how nervous or out of place I feel. I was like that at school.

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.

My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.

I feel weird when I go to the movies and everybody's faces are perfect.

I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.

As a teenage girl myself, I've gone through times in my life where I've felt insecure about who I am and have tried so hard to fit in with everyone else.

I always think everyone else is funnier than me. I look at other comedians and I say, 'I wish I was that good.' People think I'm funny, and I say, 'I'm not.'

I still think I'm not as good as anybody else.

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

I think I'm a somewhat nervous bee who just wants to conform. Which, I guess, is common in bees.

Realize that everyone that you think is perfect feels like they're not good enough, too.

I think I've developed, as many people do, this sense of, 'Don't say the wrong thing, or else people will point at you and laugh.'

I used to worry that if I wasn't having a dynamic life, then I wouldn't have anything to talk about.

I'm one of those people who, even if I'm invited somewhere, I still kinda feel like I'm not supposed to be there.

If people have very big personalities, I find myself feeling I have nothing to offer.