Gerard Butler Quotes

I'm not a very good lover. I'm so nervous about my sexuality.

I'm an extraordinarily anxious person. I'm a typical actor: narcissistic and paranoid and all them things.

Why is failure the first thing I think of when I find myself in this sort of situation? Why can't I just enjoy myself? But if you have to ask the question, then you know you're lost: self-consciousness is a man's worst enemy. Already I'm wondering whether she's as aware of my erection as I am.

I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.

I remember secretly going off and crying. All of a sudden I'm being blocked and have to be intimate in a scene, and I'm going, 'I can't even look people in the eye very well. How am I ever going to do this?'

I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it.

When I was a teenager, if anyone recognized me for anything I did, it would ruin my day. I couldn't handle it. It was some sort of neurotic phobia. I guess I was paranoid that people would treat me differently, or in an unfair way, because of my job.

I'm a bad interview because I want to always feel like I'm being totally honest, but at the same time, I'm absolutely paranoid. That combination results in a lot of spaces.

When you're young and beautiful, you're paranoid and miserable.

I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I'm annoying, and a phony.

I'm used to people being a mile away. That suits me. It's more nerve-wracking playing in front of people who are two feet away from me.

Despite my confidence and self-belief, I've always wrestled with feelings of insecurity. To be honest, I think most people in show business are insecure.

I still get nervous on dates. I'll be sitting at dinner with a guy and I have to excuse myself and go to the bathroom because I can't breathe.

I have social anxiety. It's easier up on stage because there's security in being there. When I'm off stage I'm trying not to be a manic freak. I'm quite shy.

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

I get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women.

I am skittish about relationships, as most of the marriages I've seen up close have been ruinous for one or both parties.

I'm too shy to do kissing scenes.

Everyone's projecting onto you, or you feel like everyone is judging you. I feel like I'm being judged a lot of the time. You become really self-conscious.

I always do get a little bit paranoid when I get a lot of attention. But I get used to it.

I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well.

I'm definitely scared by commitment.

I'm deeply insecure. I ask my wife all the time, 'Was that OK? Are people lying?' I'm not as happily oblivious as I'd like.

I'm paranoid of people hating on me.

We're so insecure, comedians. 'Did you laugh? Do you think I was funny?'