Shaun Evans Quotes

I try not to think too much about what the audience is thinking and what they think I should do. I'd be self-conscious if I did. Anyone becomes mannered if you think too much about what other people think.

I have a dread of sounding pretentious and try not to talk too much about what I do.

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

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

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.

Anyone becomes mannered if you think too much about what other people think.

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.'

We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.

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

I think all of us feel like we're a bit on show, all the time.

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.

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

I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I'm annoying, and a phony.

When the eyes are on you for the first time, you can't believe that people aren't criticising you.

I still get nervous on dates. I'll be sitting at dinner with a guy and I have to excuse myself and go to the bathroom because I can't breathe.

Even now, I have traces of the good little girl. When I am not performing, for instance, I am really very quiet and ordinary.

For a long time, I was almost ashamed of being an actress. I felt like it was a shallow occupation. People would be watching my every move.

The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people are gonna say about your life and your work.

I find actors a little bit too self-conscious.

I'm reasonably easygoing. Messing up my lines or making a fool of myself is where you find my fears. Like a lot of English people, I'm prey to embarrassment - the dread that everyone's sort of sniggering at you, that you're going to look like an idiot. I think that sort of halts us all.

I get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women.

I'm, like, the most terrible person to go to a party with in the world, because I just can't enjoy it. I'm just thinking all the time about what it means and what the implications are.

I think it really holds you back having to think about your image.