Nikki Glaser Quotes

There was a combination of shyness and just fear of looking stupid that kept me out of a lot of interesting creative conversations that I could have had at an early age.

It's human nature to not say everything that's on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We're afraid of being embarrassed.

When I was a kid, and for many years after, I was your classic afraid-to-dance-type person.

What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.

In fact most of what we call anxiety is overconcern about what someone thinks of you.

I was and I always shall be hampered by what I think other people will say.

I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness ... Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.

Eleanor Roosevelt was painfully shy, painfully shy. So she overcompensated. In the same way that Nancy Reagan felt unattractive and unlovable and so everything had to be - hair had to be perfect, and the makeup and the clothes. Because she thought, "They don't think I'm pretty."

I cured myself of shyness when it finally occurred to me that people didn't think about me half as much as I gave them credit for. The truth was, nobody gave a damn. Like most teenagers, I was far too self-centered. When I stopped being prisoner to what I worried was others’ opinions of me, I became more confident and free.

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

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

Lots of shy people dress a bit too much. It's just kind of an armour. People say the same thing about me.

I think we all fear appearing foolish in public. We don't want to be laughed at.

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

Shyness is just egoism out of its depth.

I was just genuinely shy. I'd always been a shy kid.

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

I never sing out loud because I'm afraid people will go, 'Shut up!'

Shyness is invariably a suppression of something. It's almost a fear of what you're capable of.

The only thing I can do is act, but it's not something I even feel comfortable doing. It costs me a lot, because I'm a shy person, even if I don't look it.

I was shy. I was more than shy.

I'm outgoing when I have to be, but usually, I'm kinda shy. I always think people don't want to talk to me. Some people might take that as being stuck-up, but I'm just shy.

It's bloody annoying being shy. I'll spend a whole evening at a party asking everyone else about themselves. I'm not being self-deprecating; it's because I'm too shy to talk about myself. So people come away from the evening actually having learnt nothing about me.

I'm not shy in the spotlight. I might seem austere and even arrogant, but far from it, I'm actually shy.

You know what my greatest personal stumbling block is? My shyness.