David Levithan Quotes

For a long time, I was almost ashamed of being an actress. I felt like it was a shallow occupation. People would be watching my every move.

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.

When the eyes are on you for the first time, you can't believe that people aren't criticising you.

People who've only seen me perform might assume that I'm confident and that being ignored wouldn't bother me - but it does.

I hope people don't get tired of looking at me.

I am really a very shy person. If I appear, it is because of the music, not because I want to be seen.

I worry that I can come off smarmy. I wonder if I was listening to myself if I'd want to kick my own ass.

I felt all the things that other teenagers felt. I was insecure in lots of ways, over-confident in others. I was very emotional. Excitable.

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.'

We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.

Shyness is just egoism out of its depth.

I am a very open person, and I'm always nervous of being misconstrued. Sitting in the middle of a restaurant makes me nervous. I feel like I'm being judged. And it's funny that I should feel that way.

I tend to be hypercritical of my performances. That's why I hate watching them with people I know.

I am not comfortable telling people I am trying stand-up because to me that implies confidence. I'm - well, I'm not.

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 can't watch myself on screen without dying a little bit inside. And there are lots of moments when I think, 'What am I doing as an actor? I can't act!'

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.

I don't understand anyone thinking I'm sexy at all. I don't get it because, growing up as a kid, I wasn't. I was like a dork, fat, so for me it's really weird. I became famous in Australia when I was 18, and I was still a little bit chubby.

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.

The only thing I can do is act, but it's not something I even feel comfortable doing. It costs me a lot, because I'm a shy person, even if I don't look it.

Despite my confidence and self-belief, I've always wrestled with feelings of insecurity. To be honest, I think most people in show business are insecure.

When I first began, the technicians, camera and makeup men made me feel so self-conscious that I began to have the biggest inferiority complex about my looks.

The 'public' scares me, but people I trust.

When the attention is on me, off-camera, I get uncomfortable - sort of shy and at a loss for words, as you can probably tell?

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