Roger Allam Quotes

I often don't see what I've done, or I cringe when I watch myself.

No, it's not comfortable; I hate watching myself. You don't like when you hear your voice on your voicemail; imagine having to see yourself 30 feet wide and 30 feet big.

I'm not that bothered about press nights as an actor or, particularly, by what people say about me, because I see myself as a reasonably small cog.

I always feel kind of awkward when I look at pictures of myself. Watching videos of myself is really uncomfortable.

I can't stand watching myself on TV.

I hate watching myself on camera. I guess a lot of people feel that way, though.

I hate watching myself, as do a lot of actors.

Normally I can't watch myself at all, and watching myself makes me cringe, and I cover my face, and it's very hard to watch.

Maybe I am just a jerk.

I don't want to be the center of attention, which is ironic. I hate having all eyes on me - unless it's for my job, and my job is playing football. I'm not that attention-hungry.

I definitely don't think of myself as being an influence.

I don't look at myself as one of the best pitchers in the world.

It's really hard to see yourself and to recognize that you are a human being like everybody else. You just think everybody's judging you.

I always have a very strong sense of shaming oneself, and you can do that a lot in the public eye, so it's best avoided at all costs I think.

It's very difficult when there are pictures taken on the red carpet. I find those things so terrifying that another persona just kicks in. I don't recognise myself.

It's funny, because I never think of myself as Little Miss All-Together.

I don't see myself as the perfect person at all.

To see yourself on the big screen, you're big, you hate your voice, your vocabulary. You say the same words, you speak bad.

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

We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.

Every article I've read about myself always winds up concluding that I am not, in fact, completely stupid.

I find it very hard to take myself seriously.

I tend to be hypercritical of my performances. That's why I hate watching them with people I know.

I say really stupid things sometimes. When I go back and watch some of my old interviews from when I was younger, I just cringe.