Jackie Mason Quotes

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 really hate being self-conscious—and being conscious of being self-conscious

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.

You know why I fear people's judgment? Because I know they're judging. I know they are.

I'm paranoid of people hating on me.

I walk on eggshells, and I care too much about what people think, and I'm afraid to ask for things.

For years I would sit on the side when my friends swam in the water. There is no feeling worse than that, to be afraid of what people will say about you, or to be embarrassed by who you are and what you are.

I worry that's what people are going to think about me if they kind of go backwards. But if that didn't happen to you, I'll feel better.

I was horribly self-conscious; I wanted everybody to look at me and think me the most fascinating creature in the world, and yet I died a small hideous death if I saw even one person throw a casual glance at me.

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

What’s insidious about the fear of what others will say is that you rarely hear them say it. You imagine what they’d say. You imagine they care that much about you. The fragility of our own egos gets the better of us

Sometimes I'll be confident and go into a shop and say, "Hello, yeah, all right," and then the next day, if someone looks at me or talks to me, I just don't know what to do. If you're walking down the street with a baseball cap, you might be fine. But if you're in a pub and you see someone look at you, you think the worst thing in the world now is if they come over. It's a really weird feeling.

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 don't avoid anyone but I always think some people hate me.

The last thing in the world I should have done was go into the theater because was inordinately shy as a young man. I couldn't open my mouth. At a party, I was the one stuck up against the wall. I was embarrassed about talking. I felt that I couldn't talk well.

What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.

Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.

I have this complex that if I walk into a place wearing a colorful shirt someone will stop me and say, 'I'm sorry, but the Latin band comes through the other door.'

I mean, sometimes I hate interviews because I always feel like I sound stupid.

I'm one of the world's most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.

I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera.

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

My greatest fear is to be misunderstood.

I am mostly a pretty worried person. In conversations, I am always worried about what to say.

I always think that I've embarrassed myself.