Quotes About Shy

The only self-consciousness in the film [Dream of Life] is anyone's natural shyness.

I can't tell stories to save my life. I like to have fun, and I go out and have a lot of fun. But I'm not really an entertainer that way. I'm much more shy.

I see you from afar—fragile and shy as a star gleaming through a cloudy rift

The standard personality type for a writer is a shy megalomaniac.

My father] loved me tenderly and shyly from a distance, and later on took a naive pride in seeing my name in print.

I'm very camera shy, but I realise it's important to promote films.

I was quite a shy kid, but I was quite funny at school, and I was really into art. In our class, there were two of us who were good at drawing, and my teacher was like, 'He's going to make a wonderful artist one day, and Noel can make everyone laugh.'

I'm shy; I work hard.

I've been able to perform in front of thousands of people on stage in a character that's nothing like me. I'm very shy.

I love racing cars, and we have to have great competitors to make the diverse fan base have people to root for, and some people like calm, shy Ryan Blaney that knows a lot about the sport, or Chase Elliott, who's been around racing and has those deep ties to NASCAR and the southern roots of our sport. Those guys are all important.

I get so nervous. I happen to be socially awkward and shy. I spent a lot of my time as an adult not going places.

He will talk to me a little while, too shy to tell me why he has come, and then he will thank me and leave, walking backward a few steps, thinking, Yes, the barn is still there, yes, the lilacs, even the pot of petunias. This was my father's house. And I will think, He is young. He cannot know that my whole like has come down to this moment. That he has answered his father's prayers.

I'm actually pretty shy in real life. But I guess in front of the camera, I focus.

She had got the habit of silence; and though she reserved a shy, soft smile for her father, she would not talk to him.

We writers are shy, nocturnal creatures. Push us into the light and the light blinds us.

I don't know why, but I felt shy and out of place in there with the noise and energy bouncing around and sheer goodness clinging to the walls of that house.

I am basically very introvert and shy, but when in the presence of the audience, my celeb image requires me to reciprocate their affection.

I was pretty dorky in high school. I was pretty much of a recluse.

I was an extremely reclusive and introverted boy.

I'm quite shy and quite reserved. But when things start heating up, I don't hesitate to show my character, whether that's in good moments, like when we won the World Cup, or more difficult moments.

I was always quiet and even timid.

I'm actually very timid and nonconfrontational.

Honestly, man, I'm very, very soft spoken. I'll go in a room and if you don't know me, you'll never know that I was there. I've always been that way, timid in a lot of ways. I don't like making new friends.

I prefer to be out of the spotlight, to be honest. I've always been that kind of personality.