Amy Adams Quotes

My problem is people seem to laugh at me, but the one that laughs harder than anybody is me.

Dummy Dum Dum was my nickname for years at school. I was the strange one of the family, the one who couldn't remember his name.

I had a bilateral lisp, and I was overweight. I was the kid who played with the flowers on the ground in the outfield during baseball. I was that kid.

I'm kind of a goony guy, a dweeb or a geek.

I'm the fastest walker, and everyone makes fun of me for it.

It embarrasses me to flaunt anything good written about me or my books. I don't know what we're supposed to do about that.

I'm just a big old nerd. I'm not that cool guy at all.

I'm not really the cool dude at all.

Kids always like the villain or the guy who's different.

I like to just be humble. The more interviews, the more embarrassed I kind of get.

Playing the nerd isn't necessarily the most ego-boosting role.

When I've mentioned my screen wife is Helen Baxendale, so many people have burst out laughing. My self-esteem has been crushed by it.

I am not afraid of being a pariah.

It's not easy to be the weird kid or the rebel.

When you roast yourself, it makes everybody else comfortable.

Standup is a place where, as long as it's funny enough, you can say your most embarrassing things, shameful things and disappointing things.

I can't imagine putting my name on a t-shirt. For someone to wear my name? Me? It's ridiculous.

I used to be super self-conscious about my height. I mean, going everywhere and someone just looking at you - you're never not in the spotlight.

I don't know why, but I'm more intimidated by sharing my singing than just performing as an actress.

I've been told I looked like I swallowed an elephant or a pig, whichever was more fitting that day.

I had very bad acne growing up. I had braces for six years, from the fifth to the 11th grade. I didn't look in the mirror and feel like someone who should be on TV.

I have no shame when it comes to making people laugh. I don't care what I look like.

People would say: 'Look what he has on his face, look at his head. What is this scar? It's so ugly.' Wherever I went, people would look at me. And not because I was a good person or because my name is Franck or was a good footballer, but because of the scar.

I was not a very... um... not a very popular girl. I think a lot of it was, you know, no boo-hoo about it - but I looked pretty strange for the first few years of my life.

I was lucky to spend so long on 'Blue Peter' and 'Newsround' and if you are a bit giddy, like I am, a bit daft, like I am, and you are the kind of person who makes lots of public mistakes, like I do, then it's sometimes hard for people to take me seriously.