Shy Quotes

I've been in pressure situations before. All my life it's been about pressure and having to get it done. Just because you say it publicly, it does not make me afraid of it or make me shy away from it.

I've often said there's two kinds of actors. There's a more gregarious type and the shy type.

Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.

I was a shy little girl, nothing like what I am now.

'Lucky' is for laughs, and there's really nothing funny that I'm doing on 'Dexter.' I think more than anything, both comment on the fact that anybody is capable of anything. Just because they are the shy guy in the corner doesn't mean that they are a harmless little bunny.

I'm shy and can't for the life of me barge around and slap people on the back. I sit in a corner by myself and am tickled to death when someone comes over to talk to me.

I was introverted, shy. But if you win a lot you need to be extroverted, or they'll think you're arrogant.

The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and I think that is something which is important for me to learn to do.

I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people. Tennis helped give me an identity and made me feel like somebody.

People think that I'm a really outgoing person because of how I am on stage. But I'm not. I'm really shy.

I've been around two years shy of 50 years doing what I do. I am a musician.

I was shy. I was more than shy.

I've never had a desire to be famous. Lots of actors are actually extremely shy. I have shy areas.

I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.

I'm not a real social person - I'm shy - and a lot of the business is just social.

I could say that making clothes is my way of communicating, because I was always so shy.

I've always been shy.

Don't try to be what you're not. If you're nervous, be nervous. If you're shy, be shy. It's cute.

I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine.

I was too shy to go and meet Princess Diana.

It wasn't that I was shy to go out with him, I just didn't want people with preconceived notions to assume anything about why we were together. I was pretty careful for a while.

I was very shy. I'm still shy.

I'm so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.

I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings.

When I was younger, I used to be super, super shy. I still find myself being scared of things.

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.

We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn't have a pool hall either, so I had to hang out at the public library - and anyway, I told myself stories.

I've learned to try to sustain myself by holding on to the integrity of who I am. I'm not talking big diva. I'm quiet. I'm shy. And I became stronger when I stopped trying to be the person they wanted me to be.

I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature when I'm absolutely not like that at all. I think I'm much more outgoing and exuberant than my image.

I'm tough on the outside and soft on the inside... I'm really a shy guy.