Danielle Steel Quotes

At parties, I'll start talking and notice everyone is looking at me and feel dumb and say, 'Forget it,' and then start eating things.

I'm not confident in social situations; just going up to someone in a bar and saying 'Hi' is going to be even more difficult because they won't know the real me. They will just know me as a fictional person I play on the screen.

I used to feel so shy speaking to girls. It was even worse when they were around their crew because they would diss me.

I've had to deal, a lot, with my own sense of intimidation at meeting famous people - especially actors, but really any famous people.

I sometimes lack confidence in public, although I am proud enough inwardly.

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 you see something that's so excellent it can be intimidating to walk into it no matter how many people you know.

Perhaps I scare people. I don't know why.

I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well.

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.

When I am talking to people who I feel don't like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.

No one wants to be a source of anxiety to everybody they know.

Everybody's looking at me expecting me to shrink up and die.

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

I don't want people to look at me.

I've always had a problem saying what I feel for fear of having someone dislike me.

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.

In my twenties, I was a bit of a worrier; it bothered me what people thought of me, what job I was doing.

I always hope people will like me, and I'm always afraid they will think I'm a fraud. I try harder than perhaps I should to make people like me, then it backfires. They think I'm a buffoon.

To be honest, I find going out pretty scary and intimidating. Got all those people checking you out, with only one purpose: hooking up. I'm quite the dork, I'd rather sit home and play Scrabble. But that doesn't get you a girl, does it?

When I first got to Cannes, I was very insecure about everything, so I put on this extravagant facade. Can you blame me? I was 19.

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

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.'

The crowd intimidates me, its breath suffocates me. I feel paralyzed by its curious look, and the unknown faces make me dumb.

Part of me feels that I'm letting people down by not being as interesting as my books.