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Quotes About Shy

I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead, 19th-century author!
~ Natalie Merchant
I love almost everything about my work except conferences. I am too shy in front of an audience. But I love signings and having eye contact with a reader who already knows my soul.
~ Paulo Coelho
Although I am a public figure, I'm still a little shy. I don't think my own personality is important. I prefer to keep some small dosage of privacy.
~ Joshua Lederberg
I think lots of actors are very nervous and shy. I know lots of them who are, and some who aren't of course.
~ Maggie Smith
Monsieur Saint Laurent was pathologically shy, and he made the Saint Laurent woman in his own image. Like her, I am shy. And to protect myself, I adopted something of an androgynous look, just as his women did.
~ Carine Roitfeld
I'm actually shy in person.
~ Dylan Sprouse
I always had an inferiority complex, like I wasn't good enough. I was shy. But dancing gave me so much joy, and I was good at it. I felt like a whole person because I could dance.
~ Patricia McBride
Although I was a shy child, I was also a bit flamboyant.
~ Catherine Tate
I don't like applause, I must admit. Ultimately, artists are shy creatures; they're introverts.
~ Cat Stevens
I enjoyed the theatrics and the physical demands of everything that went on in the ring. But I was, initially, a relatively shy kid. I think that's probably what attracted me to hunting is that it was such a polar opposite of the other, and it was that opportunity for peace and quiet and to decompress.
~ Shawn Michaels
I definitely wouldn't shy away from doing another action based project, but I feel like my forte is more like playing real, ordinary people. I'm a girl's girl.
~ Rachael Taylor
I was always a pretty shy kid.
~ Nicholas Galitzine
Sexy? Me? I'm too shy.
~ Debra Stephenson
I was a late bloomer. I was a kinda shy little kid, definitely a child of the dark side. I wanted to play guitar and be in a rock band.
~ Yul Vazquez
I'm doing modeling to stay alive. I don't enjoy my work. I don't find it creative. You don't need brains, and there are no heavy qualifications. All it takes is not to be shy and to dare to make a fool of yourself. But I shouldn't complain, because I am privileged enough to be overpaid.
~ Paulina Porizkova
I was very quiet, very shy and docile.
~ Ang Lee
I'm a very shy, introverted person.
~ Adam Cole
I think what people might not really know about me is that I'm really a shy individual.
~ Jerry Rice
My first serious project was photographing badgers - very, very difficult as they are shy and nocturnal.
~ Nigel Dennis
I was really kind of shy as a child. But I would do things for attention.
~ Little Richard
I'm shy, but sometimes my voice is so clear and strong.
~ Hakeem Olajuwon
There is this immediate connection, this intimacy when you're acting because there's no room to be polite or shy. Also, as an actor I get to connect with women I've never met before.
~ Jessica Chastain
Growing up, sports was my outlet, my way to portray a personality. I was very shy around people but, through sports, something I was good at, I was able to make friends.
~ Curtis Joseph
In the movies, they make you look good and tough, but in real life, it's completely the opposite. I do these ueber roles, I think, because in real life I'm quite shy and reserved. In real life, I'm a dork.
~ Sam Worthington