Quotes About Inhibition

I can secretly sing. But I am extremely shy when it comes to singing in public.

In general, I probably have a shy nature. So the idea of poking out with my music is probably not something I want to do.

I was very shy about acting. I thought you had to be confident. I was confident with my friends, but I would never think of acting in front of anyone else.

I was possibly shy. I don't know why some people are shy and some aren't. Some people blush very easily.

On the first recording, I wasn't singing out that much; I was shy with my singing.

If I fancy someone but can't tell them because I'm shy, I'll think, 'It's fine. You're not going to die. Maybe just tell them or whatever.'

I occasionally buy a bikini, but I'm too shy to wear it.

I'm a very shy person, and I never tried to do theater. I've been asked many, many times by the most incredible authors in America to do theater. And I always said no, not knowing what it is to be on the stage and to do theater.

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

I'm kind of shy, and I think that I take that out by performing in front of a lot of people. That's how I get out my shyness.

There was a combination of shyness and just fear of looking stupid that kept me out of a lot of interesting creative conversations that I could have had at an early age.

What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.

It's so much easier for me to get up and be someone else than expressing my own thoughts and feelings. There's definitely something about creating a cloak of a character that helped me deal with my shyness.

Silence is the residue of fear.

Growing up, I held back a lot in fear of looking silly or thinking I wouldn't make it.

A lot of people cannot dance because they are inhibited. 'Oh, I can't dance' or 'I have two left feet' or maybe someone has commented on their dancing a while back. When you enjoy something, you might be doing the simplest of moves, but they still look so beautiful.

Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.

Fear saps passion.

Chatter is your mother and father's well-intentioned expressions of caution, seeking to shield you from hurting yourself. Chatter is your teachers' equally well-meaning attempts at socialization, training you to follow the rules. Chatter is your friends' regular-Joe buddy-talk, trying to make you like them and follow the rules of the pack. Chatter is Resistance.

I would like to be free of the part of me that dares too little and fears too much.

Passion paralyzes good taste.

camera is a kind of passport that annihilates moral boundaries and social inhibitions

Tears are words the mouth can't say nor can the heart bare.

As an actress I feel that if you start to impose your own inhibitions, then you are not doing your job.