Emily Carr Quotes

I'm not scared to look like a complete fool in front of people. It's just not one of my insecurities.

If we are not regularly deeply embarrassed by who we are, the journey to self-knowledge hasn’t begun.

I don't care about me being vulnerable or embarrassing situations.

I was never a hundred percent comfortable with the women I was hanging with because I was afraid they'd find out that I'm still the same person I was in junior high. With Idina, I didn't have to be ashamed of the nerd inside that came out.

Everyone you idolize wakes up scared to be themselves sometimes.

Being yourself is one of the hardest thing because it's scary you always wonder whether you'll be accepted for who you really are.

To me, beauty is confidence. I think I’m pretty confident in the decisions and the choices I make in my personal life and career, but the same time I also let my fans know that, just like them, I have insecurities. I have moments when I don’t feel good about myself. I think people can forget that, at the end of the day, I’m just a normal girl dealing with lots of the same issues as them.

We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

When you're hiding behind a character all the time, as soon as you have to be yourself, you feel kind of terrified.

The worst thing to me would be that you put on the face you think people want to see, and then they don't like it and you think, Would they have liked the real me?

One of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that's such a downer, and people hate that topic. It's not that vulnerability is the upside, but it's better than shame, I guess.

I find it very hard to take myself seriously.

Fame terrifies me. I can say that with honesty. You're terrified that, when people know the real you, they won't like you.

I mean, I haven't been around very long. I can't expect everyone to have seen 'The House Bunny'. Oh God. I am having such waves of internal embarrassment, which now I'm admitting on a tape recorder. This is so one of the things I should keep in my head.

I have my share of insecurities, hopes and fears.

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.

It's a bit embarrassing watching myself, but I couldn't get someone else to play me, that would've been stupid.

I am not good at first or second impressions, and you have to spend some time with me to know me. Also, I don't want to put my best foot forward and prove something, as that is not me. I would rather be me and have you like me for who I am, instead of being someone else.

I'm usually pretty insecure.

I just like talking, and I'm really truthful. Sometimes things come out of my mouth, and I think, 'Maybe I shouldn't have said that,' but at the end of the day, I am who I am! When I'm not acting, I'm going to be fully Hayley Hasselhoff, and that's what you're going to get. And I enjoy that.

We all feel disabled in some way. We all feel imperfect. It's hard to be looked at for various reasons.

I mean you pull the curtain away, and you see I'm just as insecure and neurotic and scared and vulnerable as anybody, you know.

I try to be unafraid of making a fool of myself.

Sometimes if I tell people, 'I'm afraid that I'm really a fraud,' or 'I have a lot of self-doubt,' they go, 'Oh, no, you're kidding.' I go, 'No, I'm really honest.'

Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.