Kara Lindsay Quotes

I've had to deal, a lot, with my own sense of intimidation at meeting famous people - especially actors, but really any famous people.

I'm hopeless at small talk and have a problem making eye contact.

I'm shy. I am. I mean, if I get around, you know, in a room of a bunch of people especially I - you know, I don't know or - it takes me a while to warm up. I'm - and the real me, I'm not as witty as, you know, as the comic Wanda. The comic, she's had time to work on some things.

When I was younger, I think I intimidated people much more because I was far more insecure.

I was painfully shy for a long time. I mean, that's something I really had to work my way out of. And I really think it was because, after the 2008 Olympics, I spent a whole year bartending. It was the one thing that really forced me to be just not so scared to start conversations with strangers.

I get nervous before everything - dates, filming, award shows. I just don't want to say something stupid. But as soon as I step out on that stage, or as soon as I show up to a date, it all goes away, and I just have a great time with whoever I'm with.

I just don't think I've ever been comfortable at public functions and selling myself as an entity.

I've gotten better at not making people feel uncomfortable with my shyness.

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 have a tendency to trail off in conversations. I don't look up at people sometimes when I talk or cook, and those are all pretty bad no-no's being in front of the camera.

I'm prepared to try to talk to a very beautiful girl. I learned a fantastic secret, which is that the most beautiful woman in the room is not being spoken to because she's too intimidating. They're not looking for somebody beautiful; they're looking for somebody to amuse them.

I'm not very cool. I have a really hard time meeting people and stuff.

I've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.

I was very much a late bloomer. That's not to say that girls didn't express interest in me from time to time, but I just, I did not know how to respond to that.

I'm not the person in person that I am on stage.

I am very shy. When I go to a charity ball, I don't mind if people look at my sleeves. I mind terribly if I have to say something.

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

I don't like to be me. I'm not so comfortable being me on screen because then I'd be a presenter. I'm not Jimmy Fallon.

I'm not that smooth.

At school I was very shy. I wasn't funny really.

I've gotten over my shyness from many years of doing public events.

Am I an ego on legs? No I am not. Do I want to be seen out there all the time saying everything? No, I don't.

In a way I feel completely frightened of dealing with other human beings at all, yet here I am sticking my face in front of a movie camera all the time.

I was painfully shy when I was a kid. I always thought when most people were born, part of the toolkit was teaching you how to relate to other people - and it was just left out of my toolkit.

I sometimes lack confidence in public, although I am proud enough inwardly.