Meg Tilly Quotes

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

People compliment me and if I ignore them, it doesn't mean I'm rude. It just means I'm embarrassed.

I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.

I never seem to get past - I feel like a stupid guy from the Midwest.

I never want to be a showoff or attention getter or something that, truthfully, is kind of repulsive to me, but I get uncomfortable.

I've always been uncomfortable, so to speak, when the focus is on me.

I feel shy when people are fussing on me.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. Even those of the intelligent who believe that they have a nostrum are too individualistic to combine with other intelligent men from whom they differ on minor points.

Without insecurities, I think one becomes a little bit of an idiot.

When somebody used to compliment me, I'd spend 10 minutes trying to talk them out of it.

It's obviously flattering when somebody likes something one is doing. But at the same time, I get embarrassed about it. It's the 'I'm not worthy syndrome.'

I guess I don't take compliments well.

I'm really bad at self-promotion.

I'd been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that's part of being shy.

I am sure of very little, and I shouldn't be surprised if those things were wrong.

I think that phrase is the most horrible phrase in the English language - 'I don't know.' It's terribly embarrassing.

I try to be as unsexy as possible.

The wise man is one who knows what he does not know.

Most great writers suffer and have no idea how good they are. Most bad writers are very confident. Be willing to be a child and be the Lilliputian in the world of Gulliver, the bat girl in Yankee Stadium. That’s a more fruitful way to be.

The only thing about myself I know for sure is that I don't know anything.

I knew at the time my haircut was pretty damn god-awful, so I was just hoping that I wasn't one of the joke ones. And they put me through to Hollywood and I thought, "Well okay, maybe I'm still one of the joke ones but at least I'm not terrible?"

I'm so pretty, it's hard for me to think of myself as intelligent.

I'm not good at talking about myself.

Actually, I'm not super-kickass at a lot of things.

They only are wise who know that they know nothing.