If I'm uncomfortable on stage, everybody can see it. I'm not very good at hiding it. I like long, loose jacket dresses - anything that I can literally have room to move in - not that I'm a very big dancer, but because sometimes I'm sitting down at the keyboard, and then sometimes I'm standing. It just has to feel good.
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Related I'm very unpredictable, but at the end of the day, I'm working. Sometimes things change in m... RAEKWON I'm not a very good swimmer, and every time I'm in the water, I'm constantly reminded of... TOM HOLLAND I'm kind of a morbid person. I'm very optimistic, but I also feel like I'm going to die ... BRIE LARSON I'm not very good at science or math, even though I pretend. And I'm not very good at teachi... RICK SMOLAN I feel angry that I can't be hypnotized. I'm not putting it down, and I'm not saying tha... THEODORE STURGEON I'm basically a cocktail jazz kind of pianist. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a... RAY MANZAREK I'm at the stage in my pregnancy where I don't feel pregnant. You feel very, 'Oh yeah, I... KELLY STABLES I'm very realistic. I know my boundaries - I know what I'm good at and what I'm not good... VICTORIA BECKHAM I'm 27. I feel like I get it. I'm OK with being sexy if I feel like it. Some days I'm br... NELLY FURTADO I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'... ELTON JOHN There's not a day that goes by that I'm not in pain. Multiple joints and things that I exper... BRUCE SMITH Do I feel like I'm 65? No. I feel like I'm 15. That's my problem. I'm trying as hard... RIC FLAIR Sometimes I'm so tired, I look down at what I'm wearing, and if it's comfortable enough ... REBECCA ROMIJN I'm not very good at going to parties and looking like I'm having fun. EDIE CAMPBELL When I'm not on stage, I'm kind of shy. If you see me and I don't say much, don't th... JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE I'm always very uncomfortable with people. It's something that I get upset with myself for, ... NANCY MARCHAND I just want to do good material. If I'm right for it, and it connects with me, and the material ... SAM UNDERWOOD I can be a bit impatient sometimes. If I'm really focusing on something, I can expect everybody ... SEBASTIAN COE Sometimes I feel like if I'm not getting people to boo me, then I'm not doing my job right. A.J. STYLES I get bored very easily. I have a voracious appetite and I do not feel alive if I'm repeating so... JEWEL I'm very good at what I do, and I don't turn my hand to something unless I'm very good a... DAVID BOWIE Cooking, to me, it's kind of therapeutic. It's completely different from music as well. I... PHILLIP PHILLIPS I'm not good with limitations. I tend to like to find my own. It hurts sometimes, but it's g... LEONOR VARELA I'm actually a very private person. Sometimes I'm in denial that I'm really famous. BRITNEY SPEARS I am a person who has to move. I'm like a shark - if it doesn't move, it dies. I'm in go... CHARO It's not like my old self - I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding beh... DAMON ALBARN I'm not shy. I'm quiet. With my close friends. I talk a lot. But if I'm at a big dinner,... RILEY KEOUGH At readings, audience members sometimes ask if I keep writing past the two hours if I'm on a rol... AIMEE BENDER I'm not glorifying it at all, I'm just basically telling you that sometimes I have suicidal ... ASAP ROCKY It's almost a joke how good I am at charades. Not to pat my own back, but I'm literally - I&... WILSON BETHEL I always feel like I wasn't the best trainer, because I'm really good at teaching people stu... DANIEL BRYAN I'm very low-maintenance, and that is a problem. I'm not demanding at all, and sometimes I f... ESHA GUPTA I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport... LAURA WADE That's the thing I'm worst at: resting. I have to be forced to do it. Sometimes I think of l... RONDA ROUSEY I'm a pretty good drummer. I'm pretty good at guitar, bass and piano. I can play accordion; ... BRENDON URIE If I'm in an uncomfortable situation, I think I can say something funny to defuse it. Sometimes ... JACK WHITEHALL You know, I'm not really any good at working out when people are flirting with me. And I think I... JOSH HARTNETT I internalize a lot of thoughts, and sometimes it seems like I'm not listening or totally zoned ... MAREN MORRIS I'm just me. I'm just very opinionated. I react to whatever I see. If it's good, it'... MEL B Being home alone at night makes me a bit nervous. If I'm at home alone, I have to sleep on the s... RAFAEL NADAL I'm too scared to perform onstage. I'm not very good with big crowds. ALEX PETTYFER I'm leaving the screen because I don't think I am very good in the pictures and I have this ... HELEN HAYES I'm very grateful, but at the same time, I'm glad all this happened when I'm 36 instead ... STURGILL SIMPSON I think I'm probably a very sad man wrapped in a very joyful package, and I think I'm very r... DAVE MATTHEWS I looked at myself, and I just said, 'Well, you know, I can sing, but I'm not the greatest s... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN I'm not good at being a picture-perfect pop star, happy all the time. If I'm having a bad da... CHARLI XCX Sometimes I'm really funny, sometimes I'm quiet, sometimes I'm shy, but I'm constant... ELLE KING I'm not good at watching stuff that I'm in at all. I should stop. I shouldn't watch some... ELLEN PAGE If I spread myself too thin, I'm not a good actor, I'm not a good mother, and I'm just r... KATHERINE HEIGL I'm a big believer in,'If anyone can understand my politics, I've failed.' If you ca... TAYLOR SHERIDAN I feel the most confident in whatever I'm feeling at that time. Sometimes it's leather pants... RUBY ROSE I'm not formal and I'm impatient. So I think my team would say that when she starts tapping ... ANNE M. MULCAHY I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards... FIONA SHAW With comedy, if you write something for me, I'm better at it. I'm not sure I'm so good a... ROBERT KNEPPER If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm h... ICE T It sometimes feels like I'm not doing anything. DAVID FRIEDMAN Definitely scatterbrained. I internalize a lot of thoughts, and sometimes it seems like I'm not ... MAREN MORRIS I'm not angry, I'm not an angry person, but I do sometimes like playing with the perception ... CALVIN HARRIS I'm blessed that I can leave it to the pros at work and red-carpet events, because I can't s... BECKI NEWTON They say I'm insane because I need to have so much creative control. They say I'm unmanageab... IGGY AZALEA I feel disconnected, like I don't know where I am, if I'm on my phone too much. I'm also... ZAC EFRON I'm not a very good yes man, and I'm not very easily controlled. BROCK LESNAR I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter. JAMES A. MICHENER I'm not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I'm doing. ... J. COLE I tend to avoid things like award shows and panels and interviews, not remotely because I feel I'... CHRISTOPHER LLOYD I'm just like you - I want to be a good human being. I'm doing my best, and I'm working ... MAYA ANGELOU I don't think I'm a good host. I'm not a good host. I'm terrible at hosting. That... CHELSEA HANDLER I've always said that one night, I'm going to find myself in some field somewhere, I'm s... DREW BARRYMORE I'm not very good at time off. I'm happier when I'm working. It's something to do wi... EMILIA FOX I'm not very good at strategizing. DAMIAN LEWIS Sometimes I'm wrong, sometimes not. But I'm an instinctual player. ASDRUBAL CABRERA I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means w... BARBARA KRUGER I'm very big into just feeling good and doing what I want; I'm not very calculated or though... JEN KIRKMAN I love to draw and paint. I'm very active in that way, but I'm not very good with the writte... MACKENZIE FOY My first impression when I made it through was 'Good, because I'm going to prove to you that... NAIMA ADEDAPO I think it's more interesting to see people who don't feel appropriately. I relate to that, ... RYAN GOSLING For a long time, because I'm pretty tall, I was scared to wear heels, but now I wear them all th... KELSEA BALLERINI I'm blessed to be able to work at something that I'm good at, and that I love. It's not ... EMMYLOU HARRIS I've got to tell you, I'm not really a tie man. I'll wear a tie if I have to: If I'm... TAMER HASSAN I actually think that I'm a rather optimistic and happy person; it's just that I'm not a... LINUS TORVALDS When I'm online, I'm alone in a room, tapping on a keyboard, staring at a cathode-ray tube. CLIFFORD STOLL I'm very bubbly, so when people meet me, they sometimes think I'm fake. I'm excited to m... LYNDSY FONSECA There's a really easy way of just kind of wearing make-up but looking like there's nothing o... CARA DELEVINGNE If I'm a lush at anything, it's food and drink. I'm not materialistic in any way, but I ... HUGH JACKMAN I look at it this way. I'm not putting age limits on what I can do. As long as I can do the job ... DAN MARINO I'm not big on snacks, but I if do, I like a few M&M's. GRANDMASTER FLASH Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of tell... SARA PARETSKY When I'm in Los Angeles, sometimes I hesitate saying that I'm an actor because people are li... CONDOLA RASHAD I'm not good at selling laptops. I'm good at selling ideas. NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE I'm like, bursting. I should be working. I don't want to take a break. It's funny, on se... KRISTEN STEWART I have the advantage of being pretty small, so if I'm flying myself, I'm flying coach. To sa... ANNA KENDRICK The problem is I'm not a good photographer. To be perfectly honest, I'm too shy. Not aggress... BILL CUNNINGHAM I don't know what I'm really good at. I'm really good at sittin' by the pool. I have... ALEX O'LOUGHLIN You know how sometimes you hear a chord played on an organ and you can feel it vibrating in your bon... LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON If it's a good song and it fits me, that's what I'm going to do, I'm not out there t... GEORGE STRAIT Sometimes I eavesdrop on people. I could rationalize it - oh, this is good anthropological research ... MINDY KALING I'm not sure I always feel like I'm in the seat. Sometimes I'm only holding on by one ha... DAVID MORSE I have social anxiety. It's easier up on stage because there's security in being there. When... SIA I'm a big fan of working out on my own. I put my headphones on and I'm pretty good at self-m... CHRIS EVANS I'm not a chef. I haven't created any new technique in the kitchen. I'm not a rocket sci... RACHAEL RAY
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LAURA WASSER It's very lucky to be able to do a job where I get to sit about writing plays all day and going ... LAURA WADE I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport... LAURA WADE I think the interesting thing about the word 'posh' is that it is so relative; it's quit... LAURA WADE Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wou... LAURA WADE It's not a meritocracy until everyone starts with the same opportunities, is it? LAURA WADE Your plays are always personal. You can't help seeing yourself in the serial killer you've j... LAURA WADE 'Posh' is not really political. I didn't want to aim a brickbat at the system. Or to bas... LAURA WADE I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting... LAURA WADE Apparently the show happens even if I'm not there. Who knew? LAURA WADE And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written... LAURA WADE In my final year at Bristol University, I wrote a play called 'White Feathers.' It was produ... LAURA WADE I'm always drawn to writing things that feel like uncharted territory. LAURA WADE I am interested in the way advances in medicine and palliative care mean more people now have the op... LAURA WADE I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever se... LAURA WADE I don't like writing with real people in mind. LAURA WADE I think it's disingenuous to believe that being born into a privileged world means you feel like... LAURA WADE It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright. LAURA WADE Quite often, little germs of ideas have come from something that I've observed or someone's ... LAURA WADE If you want, you can have a coffin made out of cardboard or wicker or papier mache. There's one ... LAURA WADE Writing a tribe is fun. They have their own language, their own slang; they repeat it, and it become... LAURA WADE A fascinating breed, Old Etonians. Impeccable in their social skills and very portable - you can put... LAURA WADE I really don't know where my interest in death comes from. Maybe I've just got a twisted ima... LAURA WADE I'm not posh at all. I grew up in Sheffield but never managed to pick up the accent - which was ... LAURA WADE I think we love watching rich people behave badly. It has a sort of grisly fascination for us. LAURA WADE Hollywood is something imagined... acting is something crafted. LAURA VANDERVOORT I still want to do a romantic comedy or a western or a gritty independent film... there's so muc... LAURA VANDERVOORT I don't know what it is about me. I don't know if there's something strange... but I con... LAURA VANDERVOORT I started doing martial arts when I was about 7, and I got my second degree black belt when I was 19... LAURA VANDERVOORT I don't necessarily want to know what people are saying when I'm not around, especially if i... LAURA VANDERVOORT I grew up doing martial arts, and I'm a second-degree black belt. LAURA VANDERVOORT I've done a lot of sci-fi, so I was a little hesitant because you get pigeonholed into that genr... LAURA VANDERVOORT I always do my own stunts, as much as possible. I'm a little stubborn about it. LAURA VANDERVOORT I've played such serious characters that no one sees me the way I actually am, which is complete... LAURA VANDERVOORT A lot of people think that reptiles don't feel, and they do. I think everyone should keep in min... LAURA VANDERVOORT Cycling was the sport of our family - we did it all the time, five days a week. LAURA TROTT I've been asked to do 'I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!' and I do get asked to... LAURA TROTT I never really had a job, because I've been cycling from such a young age: there was never reall... LAURA TROTT Elimination race is my thing. I really enjoy that event. LAURA TROTT For all the benefits of being in the public eye, there is the odd downside, too. Twitter goes mad so... LAURA TROTT Cyclists need to help themselves and should not jump red lights. I would ride in London, but I certa... LAURA TROTT When I first started out in cycling, if there were two girls there, that was successful; but now, if... LAURA TROTT The best way for women to get into cycling is to go out in a group, to feel like you're part of ... LAURA TROTT My mum was my inspiration. As cliche as that sounds, she was the reason that we started. She chose c... LAURA TROTT I don't feel like an idol to anybody. I don't feel anybody should look up to me. LAURA TROTT I said back in 2010 when I was rubbish at the European championships, 'If I never win an omnium ... LAURA TROTT It's nice to actually look done-up, because people see a different side of me, the more girly si... LAURA TROTT I think when I first started cycling, it wasn't that popular with kids. I felt almost embarrasse... LAURA TROTT It's all well and good having a women's Tour de France - which I think we need and I think w... LAURA TROTT I am very superstitious. I trod on a wet towel before winning the Junior World Championships, and no... LAURA TROTT I was thinking on the rollers today that, before a race, if I could just pick my brain up and put it... LAURA TROTT Cycling has never felt like a job. To get paid for something that you absolutely love is amazing. I ... LAURA TROTT I wasn't really taught about the value of money. I just learnt it as I grew up, but I do remembe... LAURA TROTT I can get really nervous before a race. People will think this is mad, but sometimes I have got to t... LAURA TROTT I get asked to comment a lot on inequality in cycling, but for me it has never been an issue. Everyt... LAURA TROTT People find it hard to fit exercise into their working-day life. Nine to five jobs take up most of y... LAURA TROTT For 10 days after the Olympics, I couldn't go back to my house because people were sitting outsi... LAURA TROTT You could give the best audition ever and not get the role or not get a callback because you just we... LAURA SPENCER Auditioning is an entirely different part of what we do as actors. LAURA SPENCER When you get to the point where you know the material so well and you know the character so well tha... LAURA SPENCER I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classe... LAURA SPENCER Children are not a right, they are a privileged obligation. LAURA SCHLESSINGER A typical complaint of married women with children is that their job stress tired them out so that t... LAURA SCHLESSINGER People from the most horrendous of childhoods can have good lives, but it comes down to a very seemi... LAURA SCHLESSINGER I think it was much better when you got on your horse and rode two miles to talk to your neighbor. LAURA SCHLESSINGER Psychology doesn't like to talk about evil. It likes to talk about bad childhoods. But I very mu... LAURA SCHLESSINGER I climb mountains. LAURA SCHLESSINGER I pretty much preach, teach and nag. LAURA SCHLESSINGER Well, the truth is that a lot of people lie about their health, they lie about the finances, they li... LAURA SCHLESSINGER My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchi... LAURA SCHLESSINGER One thing I've been happy as peach pie about - because I'm all about the children and the ha... LAURA SCHLESSINGER This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with ... LAURA SCHLESSINGER It's humbling and enthralling to know your legacy when you're alive. LAURA SCHLESSINGER Women seem not to understand, or underestimate, the profound power they have over their husbands. LAURA SCHLESSINGER I love revenge. LAURA SCHLESSINGER If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you s... LAURA SCHLESSINGER Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its ow... LAURA SCHLESSINGER Men are very emotionally dependent upon women from the day they are born to the day they expire. LAURA SCHLESSINGER Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A me... LAURA SCHLESSINGER My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current. LAURA SCHLESSINGER I generally don't use an iPod for track work, as I'm focusing on heart rate and times. When ... LAURA ROBSON I played my first match aged six. Neither my opponent nor I knew how to score, so our parents had to... LAURA ROBSON I don't remember my first race, but I do recall various school sports days where I became way to... LAURA ROBSON If there is noise against you, then you try to make it seem it is for you. You just have to try to f... LAURA ROBSON I don't just want to be someone who hits the ball 100 per cent every time. You can play with fre... LAURA ROBSON Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all. LAURA ROBSON If I don't play well, then it's not the end of the world, because we all learn in tennis tha... LAURA ROBSON I think there are so many phenomenal runners. I grew up watching Cathy Freeman, Kelly Holmes, and Mi... LAURA ROBSON There's a puppy store near where I live. They know me by name in there because I go so often. LAURA ROBSON Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts. LAURA RIDING If you find something to tell, tell it to your truest, though that make little to tell; the truer yo... LAURA RIDING I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad ma... LAURA RIDING Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which... LAURA RIDING The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The... LAURA RIDING I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I kn... LAURA RIDING I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thi... LAURA RIDING To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of ar... LAURA RIDING Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for... LAURA RIDING We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of our... LAURA RIDING I think for a long time I wasn't really out to myself growing up in Omaha, Neb., to a Catholic c... LAURA RICKETTS My hope is that we will inspire more lesbians to get politically engaged. For too long, lesbian wome... LAURA RICKETTS Being a woman and being gay is really a unique position in our society. I know in my experience of a... LAURA RICKETTS I don't really like politics, to be honest. But it's other people making decisions about my ... LAURA RICKETTS When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parent... LAURA RICKETTS We all have different perspectives on the world. I'm a woman. I live in Chicago. I'm gay. LAURA RICKETTS I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I... LAURA RAMSEY I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different. LAURA RAMSEY The Internet is so big that no one can control anything, really. LAURA RAMSEY When you go in and guest-star on a TV show, they already have their family - everybody pretty much k... LAURA RAMSEY You can always turn a bad kisser into a good one. LAURA PREPON Free love sounds great. LAURA PREPON I moved to Milan when I was 15. I was always looking for something; I never really felt like I belon... LAURA PREPON I like to think I'll just be walking down the street one day and stop and meet someone, like, ... LAURA PREPON In any character I ever play, whether she's good or bad or whatever, my most important thing is ... LAURA PREPON When you're in prison, and we're left to our own devices, you're stripped of everything,... LAURA PREPON I'm obsessed with 'Homeland.' It's not even okay. LAURA PREPON On a lot of shows that I've done, we had the same directors, which was cool. But then, it's ... LAURA PREPON I've realized how important it is to have women in your life. You get to a certain age where you... LAURA PREPON There's nothing you could say that would shock me. LAURA PREPON The fact that anyone would find me sexy is very, very flattering, but ridiculous. I so don't bel... LAURA PREPON Even in real life, I'd rather hang out with guys. LAURA PREPON I am so like Donna it's funny. And most of my friends are guys too. LAURA PREPON