Kate Garraway Quotes

Even when I was young, I cared too much about what other people thought, especially girls.

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've gone through my whole life caring deeply what people think of me.

I get all dressed up with that Marianne Faithfull face, and the next thing I know, I'm blurting out things that I shouldn't, trying to get attention when, really, I've got everybody's attention already.

I guess I am actually quite shy, and I've always felt very self-conscious during interviews.

I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.

It's exhausting trying to impress someone and be a version of yourself that might be attractive to them.

The need to impress others causes half the world's woes.

And I think that, of course, there is some dysfunction of needing to be liked or noticed or to feel part of things, something going on there for most actors. For some there's not and I think they really struggle with it.

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

I just want everyone to like me. That's my main flaw.

If anything, I want to please people too much.

Creative people are very insecure people because they don't know whether people like them or are in awe of them. That insecurity always comes out. It makes them a better actor, I feel.

When you first are in front of the camera as a young person, you'd be surprised at all the insecurities you can get.

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.

The only thing I can do is act, but it's not something I even feel comfortable doing. It costs me a lot, because I'm a shy person, even if I don't look it.

Despite my confidence and self-belief, I've always wrestled with feelings of insecurity. To be honest, I think most people in show business are insecure.

Well, the truth is I'm very scared for people to dislike me. I have conflict-avoidance.

When I like someone a lot, I get scared that I'll let them down. My fear of sucking is worst when I feel like someone thinks I'm good.

That's why you find a lot of entertainers are insecure, because it's the perfect camouflage for insecurity.

Some people play very, very well just so they won't get embarrassed.

One of my biggest problems is that I'm always so influenced by what other people are thinking about me.

I have always admired people who are comfortable not being liked because I am the opposite of that. To the point when I was little, it was crippling.

Actors, by very definition, we want people to pay attention to us, and so usually, that comes in the package of insecurity. So if we're not comfortable, we don't really show you a lot.

I'm paranoid of people hating on me.