I think for a long while you're yourself, or who you think you are. And then you become something which is somebody else's and it is their view of you. So I'd be on a programme because I'm a celebrity and I'd think: 'I'm not a celebrity –– I'm me.'
Occasionally I can deal with that quite happily. You just act it. But other times it got to me and I thought 'I'm not being able to be myself.' I think that's the key to a lot of my anxiety. And the work I do is actually trying to remember who I am and what I can do rather than become a sort of figment of what people want me to be. People say: 'You're a great star; you're a national treasure; you've done all this brilliant stuff.' It just embarrasses me. It's not the way I feel about myself.
Quoted in Anxiety: A Very Short Introduction (2012)
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