Paloma Faith Quotes

I don't want people to look at me.

I'm even embarrassed at times when my friends come upon my pictures.

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

I have a fear of being boring.

I was afraid of having to present my big nose to strangers.

I had this notion that everyone was staring at me and judging everything about me, from my appearance to the way I talk and everything.

I was possibly shy. I don't know why some people are shy and some aren't. Some people blush very easily.

I hate being recognised on nights out.

I am very shy by nature and I won't even have told people about my birthday, had I not been an actor.

I was a really shy kid.

I never want to draw attention to myself, but that's all I do.

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

I was a painfully shy person in my pre-acting days.

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

When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.

I hate to look at myself in a mirror, and I never go and see films.

I've spent my life being embarrassed.

I'm shy and can't for the life of me barge around and slap people on the back. I sit in a corner by myself and am tickled to death when someone comes over to talk to me.

They say shyness is a form of egotism, and you are only shy because you care too much about what people think of you. And maybe its true, maybe I am just an egotist.

It's difficult to speak with beautiful people. No matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise, you still want them to like you.

When I was a teenager, if anyone recognized me for anything I did, it would ruin my day. I couldn't handle it. It was some sort of neurotic phobia. I guess I was paranoid that people would treat me differently, or in an unfair way, because of my job.

All of my friends are really good dancers, which was initially why I never danced - we'd go out, and they would kill it, and I'd be like, 'Yeah, I'm just gonna sit at the bar.'

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

There's this unspoken club where you say to each other: Oh God, if they only knew how ordinary I was, they wouldn't be interested. That includes movie stars and politicians.

Shyness is just egoism out of its depth.