Oscar de la Renta Quotes

We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.

It's always uncomfortable for me when I take off my shirt. No one else is taking their shift off. Why is everyone else in these movies bundled up in layers of clothing and I'm taking my clothes off all the time?

I'm a very nervous, shy person.

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

I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera.

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

I am mostly a pretty worried person. In conversations, I am always worried about what to say.

I always think that I've embarrassed myself.

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

Perhaps I scare people. I don't know why.

I was embarrassed about modeling. When you're at school and you're modeling, it sounds very glamorous, but I didn't want to do things that no one else was doing. I didn't want to be the odd one out. I wanted to be part of the gang.

At parties, I'll start talking and notice everyone is looking at me and feel dumb and say, 'Forget it,' and then start eating things.

When people have recently asked me my profession, I have not dared to reply.

In high school, I was scared to dance.

I think I've developed, as many people do, this sense of, 'Don't say the wrong thing, or else people will point at you and laugh.'

I can't stand to ask anyone, 'How was that?'

I'm one of those people who, even if I'm invited somewhere, I still kinda feel like I'm not supposed to be there.

I don't know how any film can bother you. It doesn't have to do with multi-starrer films. If you are insecure, you can feel insecure being the only girl also.

Truthfully, I'm incredibly shy, and I'm very awkward around boys.

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.

Asian males have not been appreciated for what they are. They have always been dissed for what they are not.

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

I'm so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.

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.

I hate going into a room with people in it and the feeling of them staring. I find every moment excruciating.