Quotes About Confidence

The on-stage Gracie may look poised, but the real Gracie is shy, a little self-conscious, and, before every performance of my life, panicky.

When I was little, I was very loud and loved performing in front of people. I was fearless. When I hit puberty, I became very shy and self-conscious. I still get nervous sometimes before shooting and definitely before big auditions.

I went to stage school with a neighbor to build confidence because I was quite shy.

There's a negative connotation to ambitious women, and I think that we should be able to be proud of being ambitious and not shy away from that, if that... is what you want to do.

At school, I was a shy lad and still am. But acting gives me licence to be up there, demanding the focus. It's the one time in my life where I don't have to shout to be heard.

I was always really shy so I'd never try to get a guy's attention.

My 7-year-old daughter is not shy of telling me she can draw better than me, and she's right.

Lots of shy people dress a bit too much. It's just kind of an armour. People say the same thing about me.

I just liked music, and I really liked rock guitar. I didn't think I was going to be a rock guitar player, because I was a girl. I would've been too shy to play with guys.

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

Even though I feel I am a bit reticent and shy, performing arts like dancing and acting is like my alter ego.

I think lots of actors are very nervous and shy. I know lots of them who are, and some who aren't of course.

I always had an inferiority complex, like I wasn't good enough. I was shy. But dancing gave me so much joy, and I was good at it. I felt like a whole person because I could dance.

I wasn't your normal plus-size girl who would dress in all black and hide in the shadows. I was very out there. But I was very shy and insecure about certain things.

I'm not a natural story-teller. Put a keyboard in front of me and I'm fine, but stand me up in front of an audience and I'm actually quite shy and reserved.

I was extremely shy. I am still shy, but I won't show it on stage.

The Lux girl is every girl as far as I'm concerned. She can be shy, confident, boisterous, elegant, or clumsy.

My mom didn't ever think I would take to acting because I was a very shy, very reserved kind of child. But obviously, something changed!

I think that a man should not be shy; you should say what you really think and feel - put it out there.

I'm not as shy as everybody makes me out to be.

Until I was about 14, I was so shy.

I'm not shy. I'm modest, but I'm very outgoing.

I've never hidden the fact that I used to be shy, even when I was 30. However, I might have been self-conscious on the inside, but I was never inhibited about my body.

Sexy? Me? I'm too shy.