Taylor Swift Quotes

I think I've developed, as many people do, this sense of, 'Don't say the wrong thing, or else people will point at you and laugh.'

I was always thinking the funny things but was always quiet and scared to be made fun of.

I think we all fear appearing foolish in public. We don't want to be laughed at.

What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.

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!'

Shyness is invariably a suppression of something. It's almost a fear of what you're capable of.

We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world.

There was a combination of shyness and just fear of looking stupid that kept me out of a lot of interesting creative conversations that I could have had at an early age.

It's frightening to be facing an audience. There is always the fear of what they think of you, what they are saying about you.

I get really self-conscious about people staring at me. It sounds so weird. As a performer, as an artist, these should be the things that I'm used to. But that's not the case. When people stare at me, I freak out.

The easily embarrassed doesn't learn

I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.

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.'

I used to be so afraid to say what I really think.

I think we all feel like misfits when we open our mouth sometimes, you know?

I get embarrassed by people. It's really awkward for me to have a chat with people who have been to see a gig.

Most men are petrified of standing out in any way or being thought superficial.

Well, that embarrassment gene, I don't really have a lot of it.

People are usually afraid to say what's on their mind.

I am shy - going to parties kills me.

I always think that I've embarrassed myself.

I'm kind of shy, to be honest. If I go to the pool or something, I keep my shirt on unless I'm getting in the water.

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.

People are so scared to really voice who they are. They want to be politically correct. Just scared to see what other people's perceptions are.