Ellie Kemper Quotes

I used to like doing karaoke until cell-phone cameras came along.

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.

I've had horrible days where you wake up with a zit, and you have to film, and it's terrible.

I'm uncomfortable publicizing myself as a model. I can only say over and over again, 'That's what I do,' and let people make fun of me.

It was once people began taking my picture every time I left the house - because it's an easy fashion shot - that I started getting a bit weirder about going out without any makeup on, and I think that's when I started wearing foundation every day.

My friends were amazed that I became a TV presenter. I was not a big talker at school - I never liked people seeing my braces, so I walked around with my sleeves pulled over my hands and my hands over my mouth in case anybody saw me smiling.

Everyday I have to get dressed. I can't just throw on something and walk out and say, 'I'm not going to see anybody today.' I see me.

I think I'm a shy, self-conscious person who thinks he's being looked at and tries to look okay. Not in a hottie, narcissistic way necessarily.

No one remembers it; none of my friends remember me having it, but I had really bad acne for, like, years.

Mary Katherine Gallagher is an exaggerated version of me, how I felt when I was little.

I have this fear of falling in front of large groups of people. That's why I tend not to wear heels.

It would upset me if someone watching a show was thinking about me, Milo, as an individual at the supermarket or at a concert, wherever, and they're not thinking about what the character is experiencing.

People usually want to show me their impression of me, which is always awkward.

I'm very shy about seeing my own face on the screen.

I was very conscious of my upper arms. I never wore sleeveless. I always wore a cardigan. I saw myself being super conscious of my appearance.

Everybody laughs at me because I don't really wear much make-up. I have to be forced and usually people buy make-up for me because they're like, this is ridiculous.

I am really conscious about what I wear and how I look. I am glad that media has acknowledged this. Over the years, I have really groomed myself.

People who've only seen me perform might assume that I'm confident and that being ignored wouldn't bother me - but it does.

When you see yourself on a 40-ft. screen. you go, 'Oh My God! I look so weird!'

I had a mustache for 10 years.

I hate eating food on camera - I always cringe afterwards!

You show up at high school, there's all these kids you don't know, and you're terrified that people will have some kind of wrong or unpleasant impression of you. You just don't want anything to ruin your public persona, because you actually have a public persona in high school.

What people are going to think of me, I can't really change that.

There was a time where I wouldn't go out of the house without at least putting mascara on.

I'm dancing with people I've never met before and there's definitely been times where maybe I haven't shaved or I hope I smell alright.