Jennifer Lawrence Quotes

If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill can be paralyzed and made unfruitful by it, one has to be very grateful to fashion

I can be shy when I talk to women. I'm a shy dude.

I hate not managing to speak clearly. I really hate it. I get a feeling of claustrophobia - like I'm locked in my own head - if what I've said hasn't reached someone.

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

In my twenties, I was a bit of a worrier; it bothered me what people thought of me, what job I was doing.

The last thing in the world I should have done was go into the theater because was inordinately shy as a young man. I couldn't open my mouth. At a party, I was the one stuck up against the wall. I was embarrassed about talking. I felt that I couldn't talk well.

I'm a bad interview because I want to always feel like I'm being totally honest, but at the same time, I'm absolutely paranoid. That combination results in a lot of spaces.

Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.

It's hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I'm talking to them.

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

I was shy. I was more than shy.

I'm a very self-conscious person; I think we all are, but I'm especially not very comfortable in my body. I always feel really weird and awkward on the street or on the stage. It has nothing to do with circumstances; it's just an ongoing psychological state, like white noise.

I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera.

I always think that I've embarrassed myself.

I hate having to pose for photos. It's just so embarrassing. Everyone is expecting you to know what to do because you're an actor, but I haven't a clue.

Growing up, I was a target. Speaking the right way, standing the right way, holding your wrist the right way. Every day was a test, and there were a thousand ways to fail, a thousand ways to betray yourself, to not live up to someone else's standards of what was accepted, of what was normal.

But inside, I'm going, 'Oh my God, is my zipper up? Do I have a booger in my nose?' That's my inner monologue.

I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.

I never really wanted to be a singer, because I was a super-shy kid. Singing made me feel awkward, and I was really insecure.

The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an ordeal for me.

You know why I fear people's judgment? Because I know they're judging. I know they are.

I think I'm a somewhat nervous bee who just wants to conform. Which, I guess, is common in bees.

I think I've developed, as many people do, this sense of, 'Don't say the wrong thing, or else people will point at you and laugh.'

All my life - middle school, high school - I've always been worried what are people going to think.

I am shy and self-conscious and awkward, so I think that's why I became a writer.