Carrie Ann Inaba Quotes

I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.

I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It's always been an awkward kind of thing for me and so when I hit the stage I just sensed freedom. I sensed, 'Here's a place that I can have all the experiences of life and not feel uncomfortable about it.'

I am really a very shy person. If I appear, it is because of the music, not because I want to be seen.

I was always an exhibitionist. I liked it when everyone laughed. But I didn't do plays in high school. I was too nervous.

It's so much easier for me to get up and be someone else than expressing my own thoughts and feelings. There's definitely something about creating a cloak of a character that helped me deal with my shyness.

In social situations, when I'm surrounded by people, I become very shy. But if there's a camera in front of me, I feel free.

My parents called me the WB frog. Because when I was onstage, I would do this whole song and dance, but if my parents had a family friend over, I would just go hide in the bedroom.

I always did music privately as a hobby, I think partly because I was nervous to do it in front of other people.

Growing up, I was so shy, but it was weird because I was the complete opposite on stage. I was just free to be myself.

I was a very shy and introverted person, and it was hard for me to talk to people and make relationships.

I kind of do this awkward body language because, growing up, I had a really hard time expressing myself vocally.

One place that I really feel comfortable is being a comedienne. I'm very socially inept. There's so many things that I can not do in life, and this is, like, the one thing that I have mastery over. It's my world. And anybody who's coming to the show, it's like they're coming because they know that this is my world.

In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.

I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead.

I'm very shy, and I shy away from people. But the moment I hit the stage, it's a different feeling I get nerve from somewhere; maybe it's because it's something I love to do.

I'm not comfortable being around too many people. I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff. So most of the characters I play are people who don't always feel comfortable beyond their small circle of friends.

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

I'm actually pretty shy in real life. But I guess in front of the camera, I focus.

I'm a very shy person and I never tried to do theater.

I get embarrassed a lot of times getting attention, but I like being onstage. Do you know what I mean? If I'm in a crowd of people and they're all looking at me, I will feel embarrassed. It's a strange dichotomy.

I kind of keep my personality in my pocket a lot. When I start to do stand-up, that's not my true personality either. It's the personality of a guy who hasn't been able to say what he wanted to say.

Some people love being onstage and really open up, and I'm sort of the opposite of that. I don't crave the spotlight. I'm still not comfortable even talking onstage.

I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much more alive at home, I think.

Me being a shy kid, very closed off, showing vulnerability in a character was sort of a safe space on stage. It's always been in my toolbox, there for me when I need it.

It was very natural for me to want to disappear into dark theater, I am really very shy. That is something that people never seem to fully grasp because, when you are an actor, you are meant to be an exhibitionist.