John Thorn Quotes

My biggest insecurity is that my personality is too much, and as I get older, it's just getting bigger.

I think we all feel like weirdos for different reasons.

The biggest effect celebrity had on me was that I stopped being open and receptive and started to walk around with my head down.

Look, I know what it feels like to believe you're 'different' in a bad way.

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.

Because I am basically so insecure and anxious and afraid, I never, ever in my life learned to reach out for help, ever.

I was very shy and socially awkward.

I hate smiling. It makes me feel weak and powerless and small. I've always been like that; I don't smile in any pictures.

Fame made me insecure and insular. I wanted to run away from being me.

I'm a total wreck. Afraid to let anyone near. Afraid they'll see the real me.

...self-consciousness is a man's worst enemy.

I never want to draw attention to myself, but that's all I do.

I was wracked with insecurity.

I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.

They say shyness is a form of egotism, and you are only shy because you care too much about what people think of you. And maybe its true, maybe I am just an egotist.

I don't know if I get recognized necessarily, though I do get looked at a lot - but I don't know if it's because of who I am, or if people just think I look weird.

I'm very insecure.

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

I never thought of myself as being handsome or good-looking or whatever. I always felt like an outsider.

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

I'm not coping very well with all the attention, if I'm honest.

I used to have acne when I was a kid growing up. You can imagine how serious that was in making you feel bad. And I had skinny bow legs. I mean, as a kid growing up, I was an insecure fella.

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

I feel, as a person, very uninteresting.

I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.