Amy Winehouse Quotes

When I was very young I never thought I was attractive, because I was a tomboy and I was always the biggest girl in the class.

I don't understand why people say that I am full of courage. I feel terribly nervous.

Men are always like, 'You're so intimidating.' I don't find myself to be. But whatever - I'm not going to try to be less intimidating. It's just a matter of finding a guy who's able to deal with it.

I feel intimidated by fashion.

There's never been a game plan, and I suppose I've had an uneasy relationship with my ambition. Someone who had been in my year at drama school once said to me that I was terrifyingly ambitious back then. Which was not at all what I felt at the time - I felt paralysed with shyness, though that evaporated.

I'm probably the most introverted extrovert you'll ever meet. Up until I got this show I was constantly told, 'She was really good, but she's just not cute enough.'

I wasn't attractive when I was growing up, and I don't think I am now.

Well, I'm clearly not ugly.

When I was younger, I think I intimidated people much more because I was far more insecure.

I am six feet tall. I am not supposed to be afraid.

I have a figure, and there aren't many girls out there right now who have that.

Actresses have more fear of being disliked. I, on the other hand, revel in it.

I think if I weren't so beautiful, maybe, I'd have more character.

Girls pour their insecurities into their looks.

I'm not an eye-candy kind of girl.

I just feel like growing up in Los Angeles, you learn, 'Well you're never gonna be the prettiest girl in the room, so just don't even try.' I mean, I care about being pretty, but it's not my most valued thing.

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 don't consider myself sexy. I'm kind of a nervous person in general. I'm socially awkward. I'm not tall and sensuous. I usually wear sweats everywhere I go. Oh, and I burp a lot.

I'm always described as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger', and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.

I was over-confident while growing up. I think when you look a certain way, you try and compensate by something else. I was always a strong child, was always confident, but looks never mattered to me.

Are you intimidated by me? Because if you're intimidated by me, that's something you'll have to deal with.

If I were very handsome, maybe I'd have been an actor.

Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.

We see these cute, perfect bombshells that make me feel like I'm not good enough, I'm not pretty enough. I don't think I could pull off playing a person like that, and do I want to? I don't know.

People think I'm goofy. I don't have that Angelina Jolie air to me. I wish that I did, and that's an insecurity of mine.