Zoe Perry Quotes

I've gotten over my shyness from many years of doing public events.

For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with.

I'm petrified of facing the camera. Even to shoot for a photograph is an ordeal. But it's important to break free of your inhibitions at some point in your life.

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

The truth of the matter is that I used to be much more - as it were - shy. Now I don't care!

Unless I try, I'm never really going to be at ease with myself.

I've played so many jobs where I'm fearless, but it's far from me. I wish I were like that in real life.

I was painfully shy for a long time. I mean, that's something I really had to work my way out of. And I really think it was because, after the 2008 Olympics, I spent a whole year bartending. It was the one thing that really forced me to be just not so scared to start conversations with strangers.

Right now I have more confidence in myself. I grew up.

I have more self-confidence than I did when I was in my 20s.

I never have been insecure, because I see what a waste it is. I know there is a solution to insecurity. I don't tend to be thrown by problems that don't have solutions. And insecurity has a wealth of alternatives.

I'm a much more chill person now that I know who I am and know my own voice, so I don't really get nervous with live TV at all.

I used to be very shy. When I first started, I had to go to a casting, and I had to go in a bikini. I thought I was too skinny. But I went in and got the job! And that's how I started.

Maybe it has something to do with turning 30. I don't feel as shy or nervous or self-conscious. I have more confidence that I can handle what life brings me. I don't feel scared to have an idea and express it.

We must provide leadership ... that erases self doubt.

I was a milksop as a kid. I had no confidence, no guts. I felt I was going to be someone else someday - someone who didn't have my weaknesses.

Self-confidence is something I've always lacked in. But finally, at some point, I just decided to be honest.

Being on 'America's Got Talent' has really helped me expand my self-confidence on the stage and anywhere - I'm more comfortable, and it's just really helped, and I'm glad about that.

I had big problems with stage fright in the past. I think, slowly, as I've gotten better at it, I've started to enjoy it. It's made me a more confident person in my normal life. I can open up and be myself in situations that used to be abject terror.

I'm getting more confident the more I play.

One thing I learned about that I always knew about myself - that I always been afraid of myself.

When I was younger, I barely talked. I was scared of people. I had to learn how to cultivate that confidence.

Every time I step onto the stage, it's not only proving to the audience that I'm capable but to myself.

Self-confidence is the most important thing, and this comes from identifying your goals, knowing your limits and roping in all the help you can get.

I regret that I do not have the dignity of Ricardo Montalban, the class of Dean Martin, or the humor of Bill Cosby. I do have the heart of a lion.