Jason Segel Quotes

Well, that embarrassment gene, I don't really have a lot of it.

I've never hidden the fact that I used to be shy, even when I was 30. However, I might have been self-conscious on the inside, but I was never inhibited about my body.

I've generally got low levels of embarrassment.

I think that all of us are 5-year-olds and we don't want to be embarrassed in the schoolyard.

I do embarrassing things all the time, but I don't really get embarrassed. It's like I'm unaware of my embarrassing things.

I'm shy in my personal life.

I was very shy. I'm still shy.

People tell me I'm intimidating and I've got to come to terms with it.

Knowing what you want is not a shortcoming. Let people deal with their own anxieties.

I don't know what people think of me. If they think I'm super confident, that's wrong because I still have insecurities like anybody else.

If you feel like an idiot wearing neon yellow shorts, you shouldn't wear them.

The easily embarrassed doesn't learn

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

When I was 17, I was so shy I could barely speak or introduce myself to anyone.

A lot of people cannot dance because they are inhibited. 'Oh, I can't dance' or 'I have two left feet' or maybe someone has commented on their dancing a while back. When you enjoy something, you might be doing the simplest of moves, but they still look so beautiful.

I don't think anything can help me socially, to be honest: I have this terrible personality. I don't really know how to describe it... maybe I'll go with surly.

I grew up walking out with no music. I wish I had the bottle to dance on but I can't dance.

What is the evolutionary value of blushing? It seems not to be to our advantage to do it, to involuntarily reveal our inner emotions. If we're trying to manipulate or lie, actions in furtherance of individual goals as opposed to the goals of others, blushing would not seem to be helpful. And yet everyone blushes, except the psychopath.

In my circle of friends, I've always been loud and funny and talkative. But as soon as I step out of that circle, I get very quiet and introspective. I don't want the spotlight on me.

I felt all the things that other teenagers felt. I was insecure in lots of ways, over-confident in others. I was very emotional. Excitable.

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.

I'm a shy person. I don't know if it's in my DNA to share with the world.

No-one really feels self-confident deep down because it's an artificial idea. Really, people aren't that worried about what you're doing or what you're saying, so you can drift around the world relatively anonymously: you must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from that idea that people are watching you.

I can feel very brave through all the action scenes in front of the people who are on the set, but when a girl comes close to me my face turns red because I'm so shy.

I don't get embarrassed.