Mark E. Smith Quotes

The minute I stop singing, I'm back to being shy. I'm soft-spoken because I never really talked to people. I didn't learn to do it.

I was a very shy and introverted person, and it was hard for me to talk to people and make relationships.

I've always had a problem saying what I feel for fear of having someone dislike me.

I'm a shy person. I don't know if it's in my DNA to share with the world.

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.

There have been people in my life who have told me I have to put myself out there more. But it's so hard for me to do that.

It's so much easier for me to get up and be someone else than expressing my own thoughts and feelings. There's definitely something about creating a cloak of a character that helped me deal with my shyness.

I have no problems exposing to any extent. However when I gave my first bikini shot, it was quite tough facing the public out there.

It would probably break my heart to hear that people didn't like me. I don't look on the Internet.

Most times, your blessings are also your curses. And for me, I have this ability to express myself so clearly with pen and paper, but when it comes to expressing myself verbally, I put up a big wall.

Everyone fears rejection.

I think that all of us are 5-year-olds and we don't want to be embarrassed in the schoolyard.

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

I couldn't bear it if anyone knew I had hardly any self-confidence at all.

When I was younger, I used to be super, super shy. I still find myself being scared of things.

What you want to do is, you want to get away from people being afraid to show their work, which is the first thing, because they don't want to be shot down.

I kind of keep my personality in my pocket a lot. When I start to do stand-up, that's not my true personality either. It's the personality of a guy who hasn't been able to say what he wanted to say.

Look, I don't care if anyone likes me when it comes to my work. But I can be massively insecure in other parts of my life.

I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree.

I don't like talking about myself. I don't like talking about my personal life.

I'm not great at talking about myself.

I think I hid my singing talent from a lot of my friends at school because I didn't want to alienate anyone. If everyone was singing along in the car to a Madonna song, I didn't join in because when we're younger we're afraid of sticking out or showing off, when in fact we should own those things that make us really unique.

I was very shy. I'm still shy.

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

Living with a stammer is difficult. It's a daily uphill struggle with emotional baggage weighing you down. You can't be the person you want to be.