Fear of Judgement Quotes

I still see myself on TV and think, 'Oh my God, I'm on a television, and there are millions of people watching,' and I get really nervous and embarrassed and insecure.

I don't think I made it clear where I was mentally when I appeared on 'X Factor.' There was so much pressure and a lot of judging. But I wanted to take a chance on the show because I wanted to make something of myself. 'X Factor' seemed like the only way out.

I always think that I've embarrassed myself.

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

'Places to Go' is something that I would never normally write because I would usually be worried with what people would think about me.

I'm very self conscious in a bikini, and I would never get my tummy out onstage.

I'm scared of audiences.

I'm always shy and timid when I write in front of people.

Me just being myself in public or on TV is the biggest nightmare in the world.

I'm hugely affected by what people think. It could be a million people saying, 'Great.' And then one person writes, 'What the hell is this kid doing?' and starts slagging me off, for some reason, and then I have to join in the blog and sign in under a different name and go,'Why don't you like him?'

I'm less genial than people think, but I'm too timid to seem nasty.

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 have a fear of being boring.

I've always been kind of uncomfortable just on the beach in a swimsuit. I'm never my most confident in a bikini on the beach, especially when you know people are looking at you, and they expect one thing because of what they see in the magazines, and you might not look that way. It's always been a scary thing for me.

I've always been such a private person. Even stepping into social media was a new world for me.

If I'm brought the wrong order at a restaurant, I don't send it back, because I don't want the waiter to get mad at me.

In many ways, I think I've always overcompensated. I was always almost too careful, because I knew if anybody ever found any way to doubt my work, then they'd start picking my life apart, too.

I was terrified about putting out 'Weekend.'

I think one of the things that writers and creative artists generally have to deal with is the censors that we have in our heads, the voices that we have that say you better not tell that and don't tell that, and people will think you're not a good girl, and your grandmother's going to be mad at you and all of those things.

Singing in public makes me very uncomfortable.

Stage fright is my worst problem. A voice is very intimate. It's something of your own. So there's always this fear, because you feel naked. There's a fear of not reaching up to expectations.

I'm reasonably easygoing. Messing up my lines or making a fool of myself is where you find my fears. Like a lot of English people, I'm prey to embarrassment - the dread that everyone's sort of sniggering at you, that you're going to look like an idiot. I think that sort of halts us all.

Although Salinger had long since cut me out of his life completely and made it plain that he had nothing but contempt for me, the thought of becoming the object of his wrath was more than I felt ready to take on.

There was a time where I wouldn't go out of the house without at least putting mascara on.

I always had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at.