John Grant Quotes

I was always the guy - out of insecurities, I was always making fun, even as a kid.

It used to hurt me when people said I was hiding in Wales.

Everyone fears rejection.

Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.

People think I'm so strong, but I'm very shy.

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

I'm too insecure to have people hate me.

The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an ordeal for me.

I've always been quite an insecure person.

I'm a very self-conscious person.

A lot of things you do to cover up insecurities can be just as harmful to you as anything else.

I was painfully self-obsessed and self-aware. I wanted people to love me but at the same time I was terrified of them.

I could come in the gym to train with the boys and they'd think I was alright, but I'd go home and sit there crying.

I'm as highly insecure as a human can be.

What makes me deeply vulnerable? Probably the thing I suffer most from and have the most uncontrollable reactions from is still social anxiety.

I'm shy. I'm not sociable. I'm very insecure.

I don't like feeling vulnerable. I think my mum and dad's divorce affected me more than I let on.

I promote my own self-hatred.

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.

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

I think comedy comes more from a low sense of self-esteem, and I certainly have that.

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.

I think I'm extremely vulnerable and that in some ways I seek out rejection. Never feeling like you're getting that pat on the back from dad is probably at the heart of that.

I've spent my life being embarrassed.

I am very harsh on myself. I can point out a list. My nose is very strange. I have a very round face. I sound so ungrateful. Obviously I'm being hard on myself. Whether it's body dysmorphia, or whatever it is, I can always find something wrong.