Mike Huckabee Quotes

I was the fat kid, so as a defense mechanism, I was the jokester.

I was always the guy - out of insecurities, I was always making fun, even as a kid.

Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.

I made sure that instead of people making fun of me, like every comedian probably says, I made fun of myself first so they would get distracted and just laugh. I was pretty brutally picked on for a while growing up. It was always the really pretty girls, the hot girls and then there was me. So I had to do something to get any sort of attention.

Until I was about 14, I was a fat boy, or at least I looked like a fat boy. I think that being funny was a bit of a defence mechanism for me, so I ended up being a bit of a joker.

The only way I could get comfortable around people was to make them laugh. I was an obedient girl, and humor was my one form of rebellion. I used comedy to deflect. Like, 'Hey, check out my zit!' - you know, making fun of yourself before someone else has a chance to.

When you're small, you either are funny, or you get beat up a lot.

I don't like feeling vulnerable. I think my mum and dad's divorce affected me more than I let on.

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.

Everyone fears rejection.

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

I grew up very insecure. From the time I was little I used to hide under my mother's dress.

When I was younger, I used to be super, super shy. I still find myself being scared of things.

People think I'm so strong, but I'm very shy.

Because I was a shy and awkward child, I used humour to deflect attention. It was a controlling mechanism. Because I could use it to control my image.

I'm no different to anyone else; I want people to like me. I just don't particularly want them to understand me.

I got through with my ability to mimic others and make people laugh. I swaggered through life, but, in reality, I lived in fear pretty much every day. I acted like a completely normal person, and I suppose I was good at it. But, inside, it was a very different story.

As far as humor goes, I've always been a very insecure person and I've always wanted to be liked.

Nobody's just arrogant. I've met people who are embattled and dismissive, but when you get to know them, you find that they're vulnerable - that that hauteur or standoffishiness is because they're pedaling furiously underneath.

When you're an insecure teenager, you build walls and defenses and masks, and those are incredibly satisfying to perform and chip away at. I mean, when I was an insecure teenager, you'd have had no idea what I was insecure about because I hid it so well. Only confident people are comfortable wearing their vulnerabilities on their sleeve.

As a kid, I would push my shoulders forward in order to hide my heart from being hurt.

In my teens, I was very insecure. And so I invented Roger Moore.

We all have insecurities, but some of us are better at covering them up.

Sometimes the funnier you are, the more vulnerable and scared you are underneath it all. So I think, for me, comedy was always a defense. It was a weapon so that you can't hurt me.