James Purefoy Quotes

Acting is embarrassing.

I'm too shy to do kissing scenes.

I still see myself on TV and think, 'Oh my God, I'm on a television, and there are millions of people watching,' and I get really nervous and embarrassed and insecure.

In 2004, I went onstage for the first time. They put a mike in my hand and pushed me out the door into the crowd. I did the three songs I had recorded and got out. It was the worst day of my life.

I never sing out loud because I'm afraid people will go, 'Shut up!'

I'm worried because of my mother, she's going to see my performance and she's quite hard. She's going to see me naked. And my Dad, woah. Yeah, they're going to see me like a woman, you know?

When you're on stage singing, you're naked. Your voice is something very intimate, and that's why I'm scared every time before I perform. It doesn't matter if I'm singing for a king or a queen or the Pope, it's enough to be in front of anybody. I suffer, but I can't do anything about it.

I feel like I could never walk around a film half-naked. I definitely wouldn't want to see that.

Pretty much every time I try something different or do something in front of a live audience, I truly think they might throw peanuts at me.

Watching people see your picture for the first time is such a public agony.

I don't want to embarrass myself on TV!

I have this fear of falling in front of large groups of people. That's why I tend not to wear heels.

I had a dream I was onstage naked and I forgot how to play the songs.

I hate being up onstage with a microphone.

Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.

In general, I'm pretty shy and nervous about a lot of things. For me to get on stage for the first time took so many times at an open mic before I finally got on stage and did it.

Everybody asks me what it was like to be in my underwear for my network television debut.

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 can feel very brave through all the action scenes in front of the people who are on the set, but when a girl comes close to me my face turns red because I'm so shy.

The first time I went out under the spotlight, I was proper freaked out.

I get embarrassed a lot of times getting attention, but I like being onstage. Do you know what I mean? If I'm in a crowd of people and they're all looking at me, I will feel embarrassed. It's a strange dichotomy.

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'm even embarrassed at times when my friends come upon my pictures.

And I was very shy as a kid; if you sang me 'Happy Birthday,' I would cry. Quite shy. So the idea of being an actor, much less a model, was just out of this world.

The first time I ever got up on a stage, I did a comedy poem. I don't know how I got there in the first place because I was very, very shy.