Joey Soloway Quotes

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.'

The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.

I'm so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.

Yes, and I had pimples so badly it used to make me so shy. I used not to look at myself. I'd hide my face in the dark, I wouldn't want to look in the mirror and my father teased me and I just hated it and I cried everyday.

When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.

I cringe inside when anybody gives me something. I don't know why. I just get embarrassed.

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.

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.'

I'm super shy, especially at parties.

Walking into a room filled with people you don't know but who know you brings out your worst vulnerabilities.

I'm painfully shy.

Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.

I'm quite sensitive to people noticing me. There are times when I'm relaxed, then others when it does make me self-conscious.

I never sing out loud because I'm afraid people will go, 'Shut up!'

I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people.

I'm usually too shy to write on planes because I assume that everyone on board is as nosy as I am and will look over my shoulder and read what I'm writing.

I have this complex that if I walk into a place wearing a colorful shirt someone will stop me and say, 'I'm sorry, but the Latin band comes through the other door.'

Strangers still leave me self-conscious.

I put on the fat suit and went outside and walked around. I was really nervous about being found out, but nobody would even make eye contact with me. It really upset me.

I wasn't into anything at school. I used to get really embarrassed. I used to get asked to do performing things, and I'd go to all the rehearsals, and then I'd pretend to be ill on the day I had to actually perform. I was very unhappy at school.

I have a fear of being boring.

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.

Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and wonder how I do these things. I can embarrass myself so badly that I literally get a hot prickle down the back of my neck.

Some people play very, very well just so they won't get embarrassed.