Angela Yee Quotes

I feel like in an interview situation, it's a kind of intimacy that I can understand and handle - versus in real life, when I'm much more of a bumbler and have a hard time.

I'm constantly struggling in interviews to engage and finish sentences, because I am being asked personal questions from somebody I don't know.

My greatest fear is speaking in public.

I get butterflies before I go out to say hello at a party.

You're required to be outspoken in journalism, and in television you're exposed anyway, because everyone watches it.

As a point of fact, I am not used to making frequent appearances in public, except at times when it is required.

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

I'm not great at small talk.

I do get bottled up in interviews. You're thinking about what you're saying, and suddenly you get all tangled. So people think I'm sullen, or that I don't have much to say. But my friends will tell you: a lot of times I talk too much.

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

Sometimes interviews are fun and good conversations, but stuff like photo shoots and appearances at places where you have to meet a lot of people - I was never really made for this kind of stuff.

I don't like to interview people in front of their friends; they clam up.

I found I could perform in front of 200 people, but I would still feel nervous having a one-on-one conversation.

I would like to believe that I still am a shy person; I am very introverted. I have a problem communicating.

It's not that I never do interviews or that I find them traumatic. It's just that I'm basically not that comfortable doing them.

There are days where I can go into a room full of people, talk to every single person, and feel completely at ease, and feel like making every single person laugh, and feel like everyone's having a great time. There are other times where I go into a room of people, and I literally want to run and hide.

I don't want to go on a talk show and talk about stuff I don't know about.

The desire to perform impedes conversation.

The largest fear in the world is to speak in public. We fear of stumbling, or public humiliation, and so we're fearing a face-to-face rejection. So, we'll say things in a text or e-mail that we would never say face-to-face. So, relationships are coming together faster and breaking apart faster, and they're a little bit more disposable.

I was just painfully shy. I couldn't talk to anyone. Going up in front of class, I would have to mentally prepare myself to raise my hand.

I can't even talk to someone and make eye contact.

I wouldn't feel comfortable talking to someone I didn't know very well and, beyond that person, a readership of X millions, about things I think are private.

For most people, tweeting is scary.

I personally don't feel like I'm really different with the mask on or not, but I don't really like to take interviews or go talk to other people or in front of other people.

I don't talk in front of people.