Michael McIntyre Quotes

I'd been shy since childhood, constantly full of self-doubt. And as an actor, I'd been so scared of failing that I made my career - and myself - a big joke.

There are several times when I walked into a room and just felt like such a sham. That's the problem with auditioning.

I'm insecure about things. I'm not afraid to say it, though. Even when my publicist is like, 'Go on the red carpet,' I don't wanna go.

I always feel scared and insecure on a film set. I don't know any other way.

Like everybody in show business, you think you're going to wake up one day, and it's all going to be taken away from you. I think we all share an insecurity in that way, everybody in show business - the ones I talk to, anyway.

I'm too insecure to have people hate me.

I'm as crippled with doubt as the next actor.

We're so insecure, comedians. 'Did you laugh? Do you think I was funny?'

I was not happy with myself as a human being when I was very young - I was afraid of people; I was afraid of talking, I didn't know how to express myself other than by being on stage.

People who've only seen me perform might assume that I'm confident and that being ignored wouldn't bother me - but it does.

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

Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.

As an adolescent, I was painfully shy, withdrawn. I didn't really have the nerve to sing my songs on stage, and nobody else was doing them. I decided to do them in disguise so that I didn't have to actually go through the humiliation of going on stage and being myself.

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

Everyone fears rejection.

I'm not the person in person that I am on stage.

I think you're not a human being unless you have doubts and fears.

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

It's difficult to speak with beautiful people. No matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise, you still want them to like you.

I'm an actor, so I am always scared. You never know if you are on vacation or that you have been retired and they just didn't tell you.

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 think it would collapse my heart if I was super famous. I don't have the nerve for it, I'm too anxious. I don't know how you're not obsessed with how people perceive you, because they're real people, you know? You can convince yourself that they don't really know you, and that's true, but how can it not hurt your feelings?

Maybe I should pretend like I'm not insecure, but I really am. This movie is going to come out and... will people like it? Will they like Rey?

The thing that helped me come to terms with performing was an anxiety, a desperation for acceptance. There was never enough positive motivation in my life.

I couldn't bear it if anyone knew I had hardly any self-confidence at all.