Shy Quotes

My first serious project was photographing badgers - very, very difficult as they are shy and nocturnal.

I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don't like the front, the adulation.

'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.

People think I'm so strong, but I'm very shy.

My life isn't that dramatic. My dad really loves me, he just can't talk on the phone. He's too crippled and shy, and that's almost harder. He's there and he loves me, and I try and try and try, it's just impossible to have a relationship.

I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and I'm not shy about presenting them, so if people ask for my critical response to a poem, I tell them what works and why, and what doesn't work and why.

I am quite shy and people think I'm aloof.

I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.

Stanley didn't shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of.

I was pretty shy.

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.

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'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.

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.