Carrie Ann Inaba Quotes

Being misunderstood - that's the thing that scares me. Because my life is about oversharing.

I always feel terrified whenever I put my work out there to be seen, to be scrutinized. I think it's a very vulnerable thing that we are asked to do.

I'm scared of saying something that may get taken the wrong way.

It's very scary to allow the world to see you.

I've always been slightly afraid of coming out with my record because it's so personal to me. Now it doesn't feel as frightening as I thought it would.

Being yourself, or being judged as yourself, is really scary.

I feel extremely vulnerable.

I'd be far too self-conscious and insecure if I suspected my editor might be a better novelist than I.

I'm insecure about things. I'm not afraid to say it, though. Even when my publicist is like, 'Go on the red carpet,' I don't wanna go.

'Writing' always means 'not writing' to me because I will do anything to put it off. I think this is mainly because writing anything down and then handing it over to a third party - especially in comedy - is such an exposing act that you naturally want to delay the process.

When you sit down and play your music for someone you respect, you get that feeling in your stomach of like: 'Oh my God...' You know if it's not great because you start to feel sick.

I was afraid to express myself for a while.

I don't want to think about how many people have thought or still think that I'm crazy.

When I was younger, I was afraid to be myself.

My greatest fear is to be misunderstood.

Songwriting is the most terrifying thing to me, because you are really laying your heart out there.

I still assume that, any day, I'm going to be exposed as a fraud. That, like I once heard Gene Hackman say, the acting police are going to burst in and take away my card.

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

I got more shy as I got older and realized people could be laughing at me or judging me.

I can't stand to ask anyone, 'How was that?'

You have to write about what scares you.

Professionally, I'm a perfectionist, and to allow people to see that maybe I wasn't always perfect or put together - that my actual personal life was very messy at times... it was scary to let people know that.

It's really hard for me to be open and be completely honest with a stranger.

Putting your work out there is scary!

I always get a little bit scared reading reviews.