Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

I am an extremely private person. I always feel that I come across as a caricature of myself whenever I do interviews.

At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrassed in front of our friends.

I've been shy twice. Once when I saw Matthew Bomer and once when I saw Adam Levine. I couldn't say anything, literally.

I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother.

I remember once acting really cool on a bus with this girl named Stephanie. When I got home, I realized that I had a really big zit on my forehead. If you have acne problems, you really shouldn't be acting like Don Juan.

I've generally got low levels of embarrassment.

For some reason, people look at me and laugh. I don't know why.

I need to make sure that when I'm running out to the drugstore I'm not wearing a Biore strip or something. Not that I expect anyone to recognize me, but on the off chance they do, I just don't want to embarrass myself.

For some reason, I was born without a sense of embarrassment or shame.

If you're OK with being clumsy, it's funny. But if you are super embarrassed, people are going to laugh at you.

I would be horrified to watch whatever I was doing on 'Party Of Five.' I'm sure I'm bad on it.

I'm even embarrassed at times when my friends come upon my pictures.

But, you know, it's still a drag to get your picture taken when you're eating a sandwich. It's a downer.

I remember watching myself on video and being so disappointed with myself because I was constantly moving around the place and laughing. I thought, 'I must be so much louder than I think I am. From inside it feels fine.'

You ask anybody what their number one fear is, and it's public humiliation. Multiply that on a global scale, and that's what I've been through.

I was a very shy child. I remember being in a kindergarten open house with my mother and children saying 'Hi' to me, and I still remember feeling this way - but I don't know why - but I wouldn't even say 'Hi' back. I was that shy.

As a kid it's adorable to have a gap in your teeth. But then, because of the shifting in my mouth, I started whistling through it, and as a 32-year-old woman, whistling while you speak in sort of annoying.

A lot of times people hide their quirks when they're first getting to know a person.

Baldness is visually enough of a stigma as it is without a big sweaty bloke on stage pointing it out.

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

One of my very greatest fears as a child was being ridiculed in public. And there it was coming true. As a television presenter, I'd been respected. People come up to you in the street and shake your hand and talk to you in a respectful way.

It's human nature to not say everything that's on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We're afraid of being embarrassed.

I'm uncomfortable publicizing myself as a model. I can only say over and over again, 'That's what I do,' and let people make fun of me.

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.'

My friends were amazed that I became a TV presenter. I was not a big talker at school - I never liked people seeing my braces, so I walked around with my sleeves pulled over my hands and my hands over my mouth in case anybody saw me smiling.