Yalitza Aparicio Quotes

I can't do talk shows, I don't do them, just because I get really nervous and fidgeting and shaky.

I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.

I would gladly do it but I am suffering from social phobia. I cannot manage being in a crowd of people.

I don't like going on stage. Stages mean 'nervous' for me.

You know what, I'm a big coward and I'm really afraid of live audiences.

I am a person who dreads any kind of public exposure and any kind of public event. I spend all day, if I have to do a reading, preparing.

I get nervous even guesting on other people's shows.

I still get real nervous when I go in front of more than two people.

We blush very, very easily, and we get terrified of audiences.

I was always shy and had a huge fear of being onstage.

I'm one of those people that if I go to a party, I can't remember my mother's name because I'm so nervous in a social situation.

At one point in college I was so shy that I'd drop out of a class if asked to speak in front of other people.

I get very anxious and am scared in crowds and things like that.

People come up to me all the time. If I'm with friends or in a crowd, I'm fine, but if I'm by myself, I get afraid because people are nuts.

I don't know if it's irrational, and I would never say this before, but I think I'm a little bit agoraphobic when I'm in huge crowds of people. I mean, it's claustrophobic, probably - small spaces and large groups of people, anxiety rises for me.

I'm not good at interacting with people and am terrified to get onstage, so I just go up there, freak out and, most of the time, pack up and go home immediately after.

When I was a kid, and for many years after, I was your classic afraid-to-dance-type person.

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.

I will not do festivals. The thought of an audience that big frightens the life out of me.

I don't really like to play live. I don't like to be on stage. I feel very self-conscious.

Nothing terrifies me more than being social.

I was just terrified in front of the camera. I couldn't even say my own name. I walked out of a handful of auditions. I mean, ran out in cold sweats. I was just so nervous and insecure.

Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and my eyes averted. There's still that part of me that wants to hold my head up, make eye contact and smile.

Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.

I hated speaking in public. I would miss school just so I wouldn't have to do it.