Carice van Houten Quotes

I have a very ostrich mentality. I feel like I have my head in the sand so no one can see me.

I'm actually quite a shy person and it's becoming clearer to me. Sometimes I would like to disappear, maybe only for an hour.

I'm shy. I'm not sociable. I'm very insecure.

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'd been shy since childhood, constantly full of self-doubt. And as an actor, I'd been so scared of failing that I made my career - and myself - a big joke.

I'm a very nervous, shy person.

I was regarded as the school freak which further reinforced a lot of inhibitions and doubts I had about myself. I was a shy, frightened teenager for a long time.

I was a nervous kid, not great socially.

I went through all my twenties thinking that I wasn't good enough.

I'm a complete coward in real life.

In the romantic sense, I'm pretty useless with guys. If I see somebody who I'm attracted to, generally I just think, 'Oh well, he's not interested in me.' The only time that I talk to guys is when they talk to me first.

I do have an outsider's complex of getting made fun of. I was made fun of as a kid, and I don't have the stomach for it.

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

I was terribly shy when I was growing up, I really wasn't confident with other people and I think I was always afraid of up or not being this very cool, amazing person that I wanted to be.

I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.

I wasn't the most confident kid in school and college.

I purposely kept covered up because I didn't like people looking at me.

I became very timid, very retreating. I wouldn't talk to anybody. I didn't look you in the eye. I just had that kind of personality as a kid that basically puts a target on you.

I would leave halfway through a photoshoot, because I couldn't bear looking at myself or being in front of a camera. I used to feel disgusted in myself.

When I was a little girl, I was incredibly shy. My hope was to blend in, to fit in, to not be noticed in any significant way. I was deeply insecure and unsure of myself.

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.

One of the things that has inspired me so much is knowing that I felt like I could never measure up.

For so many years, I thought I wasn't good enough.

I used to always hide my hand, I still do. I don't really like talking about it. Sometimes I still hide it and not even realize that I'm doing it.

A bloke once yelled out: 'You've got chubby knees.' I was 19. I've had a real complex about my knees ever since.