Emily Mortimer Quotes

I'm so loud, as if I know what I'm on about, but deep inside, I'm so insecure. Just a little girl.

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

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'm not very cool. I have a really hard time meeting people and stuff.

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.

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

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.

There's a difference between wanting to appear confident and actually feeling confident. I think there have been many times when I've overcompensated for how nervous or out of place I feel. I was like that at school.

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

I was just terrified in front of the camera. I couldn't even say my own name. I walked out of a handful of auditions. I mean, ran out in cold sweats. I was just so nervous and insecure.

I was not happy with myself as a human being when I was very young - I was afraid of people; I was afraid of talking, I didn't know how to express myself other than by being on stage.

I am an insecure person. I have my own insecurities about lots of things, but I am pretty secure as an actor.

I'm not a cool girl. I wish I was.

It is just down to confidence. When I haven't got any, I hate playing the game.

I hope people don't get tired of looking at me.

I always feel as if I'm a disappointment: that people want a grand dame in furs like Barbara Taylor Bradford.

I wasn't a naturally confident, extravert, outgoing person.

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.

My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.

I've always been insecure about my singing. That's why I've focused so much on my songwriting.

In my twenties, I was a bit of a worrier; it bothered me what people thought of me, what job I was doing.

Let's say that, in reality, I'm basically very shy when it comes to men.

I don't have the confidence to be a personality.

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.