Joel Edgerton Quotes

Singing in public makes me very uncomfortable.

I get embarrassed a lot of times getting attention, but I like being onstage. Do you know what I mean? If I'm in a crowd of people and they're all looking at me, I will feel embarrassed. It's a strange dichotomy.

I'm a little more shy and not comfortable dancing in front of a large crowd.

I get embarrassed by people. It's really awkward for me to have a chat with people who have been to see a gig.

I'm reasonably easygoing. Messing up my lines or making a fool of myself is where you find my fears. Like a lot of English people, I'm prey to embarrassment - the dread that everyone's sort of sniggering at you, that you're going to look like an idiot. I think that sort of halts us all.

I never really wanted to be a singer, because I was a super-shy kid. Singing made me feel awkward, and I was really insecure.

I find just being on set embarrassing. Mortifying. And that's with all my clothes on.

My parents called me the WB frog. Because when I was onstage, I would do this whole song and dance, but if my parents had a family friend over, I would just go hide in the bedroom.

It's frightening to be facing an audience. There is always the fear of what they think of you, what they are saying about you.

I get really self-conscious about people staring at me. It sounds so weird. As a performer, as an artist, these should be the things that I'm used to. But that's not the case. When people stare at me, I freak out.

I am really a very shy person. If I appear, it is because of the music, not because I want to be seen.

All of my friends are really good dancers, which was initially why I never danced - we'd go out, and they would kill it, and I'd be like, 'Yeah, I'm just gonna sit at the bar.'

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

I'm a very shy person and I never tried to do theater.

I'm not a very gregarious person. I can't bear attention being called to me in a public place, which is ridiculous in a business that pays you to be noticed.

It was very natural for me to want to disappear into dark theater, I am really very shy. That is something that people never seem to fully grasp because, when you are an actor, you are meant to be an exhibitionist.

I'm always shy and timid when I write in front of people.

I hated singing and getting up in front of crowds.

I have a fear of being boring.

I find actors a little bit too self-conscious.

I don't like getting up in front of people and being the loud one when everybody's out quiet and you're the only one talking. I'm not a fan of that. I'm fine when I get in front of a camera, I don't care. You'll never see me on stage. Not at all.

I'm not a natural performer or exhibitionist. When I was younger, I hated the focus, and it made me feel strange.

I have never been able to sing in the shower, much less in front of anybody.

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