Shyness Quotes

What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.

I've gotten better at not making people feel uncomfortable with my shyness.

In talking, shyness and timidity distort the very meaning of my words. I don't pretend to know anybody well. People are like shadows to me and I am like a shadow.

You know what my greatest personal stumbling block is? My shyness.

And like the old stereotype, I overcame my shyness by making my friends laugh.

My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near me and I didn't have to talk to anybody because of my shyness. It was great. I was in my fantasy world.

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

There is a shyness about me, and I really need to get out more.

Shyness is just egoism out of its depth.

Scientists have found the gene for shyness. They would have found it years ago, but it was hiding behind a couple of other genes.

I genuinely enjoy talking one-to-one. I have no shyness about that.

I'm very shy so I became very outgoing to protect my shyness.

What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people.

I loved to make people laugh in high school, and then I found I loved being on stage in front of people. I'm sure that's some kind of ego trip or a way to overcome shyness. I was very kind of shy and reserved, so there's a way to be on stage and be performing and balance your life out.

You know I was a shy guy and people didn't know that and still don't know it today. I'm sure basketball brought my shyness out because of the fact that you have to do interviews, and that people are always talking to you in terms of the fans and everything.

I was living in New York City and flat broke. My next door neighbor was an actor and he always seemed to be having more fun than I was. He convinced me to give acting a shot, but because of my shyness I was sure it would be a lost cause.

I started studying shyness in adults in 1972. Shyness operates at so many different levels. Out of that research came the Stanford shyness clinic in 1977.

I am uninterested in appearing in newspapers and on television. Many people think I am striking a pose - that I want to create a sense of shyness. But it's just not something I want to do. I overdosed.

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.

I think I had a shyness about me, I think I discovered acting as a way to break out of that and as a way of belonging, a sense of being special.

I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day.

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.

The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual.