Quotes About Reservedness

I'm not a big fan of people knowing too much about me.

I don't like talking about myself. I don't like talking about my personal life.

I have never met a man more shy than Clark Gable. He was so shy, you couldn't make him talk.

I'm not a show-off by nature.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Part of me has always been a private person.

I've always kept a low profile and said no to 'Saturday Night Live' and stuff like that.

I'm shy and open up to very few people.

I'm not one that cares for publicity.

What was it about Carolyn that made her so cautious about revealing herself?

I'm not really one who goes telling people things. I'm quite a reserved character and I keep a lot of things to myself. That's my home life as well. I just try to deal with things and, rightly or wrongly, get on with it.

I've always been one to shy away from the publicity, the limelight, whatever you want to call it. I prefer to be in the background.

Part of me is very shy.

I was painfully shy as a child.

I don't give interviews.

Introverts shun social situations because, Greta Garbo—style,

I love the English people - if you don't want to speak, you don't speak. And I'm quite like that sometimes.

You can certainly keep a low public profile if you want to.

In no way do I want to draw attention to myself.

He was the meekest of his sex, the mildest of little men. He sidled in and out of a room, to take up the less space. He walked as softly as the Ghost in Hamlet, and more slowly.

I do not like attention. Oddly enough, I do everything I can to avoid it.

As far as I have been able to understand, the Japanese seem to keep things close to the vest. Friendly but remote and polite to the point of being invisible. It is in the music, literature, film and art that the Japanese really seem to express themselves.

Shyness is..