Karan Mahajan Quotes

I do have, at different times, a certain kind of self-consciousness in the world, an insecurity.

For years I would sit on the side when my friends swam in the water. There is no feeling worse than that, to be afraid of what people will say about you, or to be embarrassed by who you are and what you are.

I'm very insecure.

I always think that I've embarrassed myself.

Many people are insecure of many people.

Sometimes I'll be confident and go into a shop and say, "Hello, yeah, all right," and then the next day, if someone looks at me or talks to me, I just don't know what to do. If you're walking down the street with a baseball cap, you might be fine. But if you're in a pub and you see someone look at you, you think the worst thing in the world now is if they come over. It's a really weird feeling.

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

Yes, and I had pimples so badly it used to make me so shy. I used not to look at myself. I'd hide my face in the dark, I wouldn't want to look in the mirror and my father teased me and I just hated it and I cried everyday.

Westerners, more than most Asians, are prone to feelings of fear, self-hatred, and unworthiness.

The last thing in the world I should have done was go into the theater because was inordinately shy as a young man. I couldn't open my mouth. At a party, I was the one stuck up against the wall. I was embarrassed about talking. I felt that I couldn't talk well.

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

I grew up very insecure. From the time I was little I used to hide under my mother's dress.

I have a dread of sounding pretentious and try not to talk too much about what I do.

Am I about to feel really, really stupid?

I'm a bad interview because I want to always feel like I'm being totally honest, but at the same time, I'm absolutely paranoid. That combination results in a lot of spaces.

I always feel scared and insecure on a film set. I don't know any other way.

Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.

I've always been really shy. I was always afraid of any kind of confrontation.

I have this complex that if I walk into a place wearing a colorful shirt someone will stop me and say, 'I'm sorry, but the Latin band comes through the other door.'

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.

I'm always described as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger', and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.

Americans are always a little bit insecure.

I was shy. I was more than shy.

I'm really insecure about everything.

I'm not the guy who bursts into the room. I'm the most insecure person you'll meet if you get to know me.