Fear of Embarrassment Quotes

I don't like to play live. And if I don't like to do it, why should I?

Too many men are afraid of being fools.

It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.

I am not likely to die of bashfulness but neither am I prepared to be crucified to attest the perfection of my art. I dislike to hear of any stray heroics on the prowl for me.

I was just genuinely shy. I'd always been a shy kid.

I've always been insecure about dancing. I was when I was in high school.

We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world.

I don't like to bring attention to myself. I don't like to make a scene.

It's bloody annoying being shy. I'll spend a whole evening at a party asking everyone else about themselves. I'm not being self-deprecating; it's because I'm too shy to talk about myself. So people come away from the evening actually having learnt nothing about me.

Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.

One of my obsessions in life is that we have the tools to manufacture moments and real things, but it's overwhelming and there's a lot of fear and you think maybe you'll be rejected or embarrassed or somehow hurt emotionally. So we don't do the things we know we can do, but we can make people feel better and make people happier with compliments or just being positive and that sort of thing and sending it their way.

I was a really shy kid.

But even so, I still get nervous before I go onstage.

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

My parents called me the WB frog. Because when I was onstage, I would do this whole song and dance, but if my parents had a family friend over, I would just go hide in the bedroom.

I was very shy. I'm still shy.

I was a very shy child.

I'm scared of audiences.

I got kind of scared when I thought they wanted me to do something... I didn't want to be naked on the front of a magazine unless everybody would know it was a joke. I wouldn't want to be naked even then.

I was quite a shy child - not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.

I'm super shy, especially at parties.

I am always driven by the terror of humiliation.

I've never told anyone this. But I suffer from terrible stage fright. True. You can't tell though, can you? Unbelievable, the panic. I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig. It'd make me vomit.

I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there's more people in the audience than I'm used to.

I do not love performing. I get really scared.