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Quotes About Shy

He was a tall, gangly, shy satirist who mumbled to you with his head turned away and always said funny things.
~ Jack Kerouac
I'm sort of shy, and Twitter feels like chatting all day with a group. I like to follow people. I'm following Joel Osteen, Steve Martin, and an anonymous purple egg - just to see where they go with it.
~ Maria Bamford
I've had moments of thinking maybe I should go on Twitter. It's something that I've been shy about, and I've thought that maybe I should do it.
~ Michelle Dockery
I've often said there's two kinds of actors. There's a more gregarious type and the shy type.
~ Al Pacino
Like a typical Gemini I'm changeable, I can be two different types of people. I can be very outgoing, but sometimes very shy.
~ Denise Van Outen
Even when I became the typical shy adolescent, I never minded performing. I felt there was a kind of safety, a protection about being on stage, about losing myself in another character.
~ Hayley Mills
My father was a typical Irish father. He was a nice, hard working, driven guy. His politics were very conservative and I was just a very different kind of kid to that. I was very shy and bookish.
~ Ardal O'Hanlon
I think of myself as a shy, modest, relatively unassuming person.
~ John Landgraf
Being the Lux girl has been a real journey! I did my first ad before my first film released. I was shy and unaware.
~ Mahira Khan
It was a face that said, "Fuck the world," but said it reluctantly, and tonelessly, and then apologized, said "Sorry," but said all of this so shyly that no one heard, anyway, except for himself. A year ago, Uncle Larry went to the hospital with the flu, somehow fell into a coma, and, a few days later, died.
~ Tao Lin
I've always been shy and that's partly why I chose a life behind the lens. I like people to look at my work and hopefully it speaks for itself.
~ Bruce Weber
I'm not very good at speeches.
~ Ben Howard
I am shy, quiet and like spending time with my family.
~ Nicolas Anelka
Peter remained very quiet and shy, but when he spoke it made sense.
~ Jonathan King
I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.
~ Ian Mcewan
Even around my family, I hardly spoke. I was very reserved.
~ Malachi Kirby
Nympha pudica Deum vidit, et erubuit.
~ Lafcadio Hearn
You might want to get up," he said. "Everyone will be here quite soon to rescue you, and you may prefer to have clothes on when they arrive." He shrugged. "I would, at any rate, but then, I am well known to be remarkably shy.
~ Cassandra Clare
Where's the nerdy shy Predator scientist who figured out how to build a spaceship while all the big jock Predators were down the pub ripping one another's spines out, eh?
~ Catherynne M. Valente
You're just shy of figuring out how to shuffle your horde of hormone-curdled control-obsessed malignant narcissists offworld. In short, you were about to become our problem. But now there is no problem! Now there is a process.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Compared to high-profile leaders with big personalities who make headlines and become celebrities, the good-to-great leaders seem to have come from Mars. Self-effacing, quiet, reserved, even shy—these leaders are a paradoxical blend of personal humility and professional will. They
~ James C. Collins
When the attention is on me, off-camera, I get uncomfortable - sort of shy and at a loss for words, as you can probably tell?
~ Guillermo Diaz
My dad was a very unconventional Asian American man. He was very much not quiet, not shy, not passive. If he had to fart, he'd do it in the library. He did not care. He was like, 'I don't know these people. I'm uncomfortable, and I need to let it go.'
~ Ali Wong
I'm quite a shy person, but I know I'm a good football player. That's just the way I am. That's the way I grew up. My grandmother brought me up, and she is the same way. She's understated, but she knows what she's worth.
~ Georginio Wijnaldum