Quotes About Introversion

I was just standing around and suddenly I was cast as an extra. I hated it because I was so shy.

I don't want to be the center of attention. My posture has changed. I walk with my head down and shoulders slumped. Suddenly I carry myself as if I'm ashamed of something.

Some people are very good at that, communicating with the world; I'm not sure I'm suited to it.

What I loved about 'Summer' was that they were these four bright kids with a wonderful future. In a way, she was the one with the brains, and then you have the beauty queen and the jock and the introvert.

I usually stay in on Sunday nights. I'm not much of a party person.

I've never been a sunny personality. I've never been outgoing. I'm a solitary person.

I am super shy. I was one of those people where I can't even order something on the phone. Like, I hated that.

I'm super shy, especially at parties.

When I was a kid, I was super shy.

I'm antisocial, they say. I don't mix. It's so strange. I'm very social indeed. It all depends on what you mean by social, doesn't it?

Creen que soy insociable. No me adapto. Es muy extraño. En el fondo, soy muy sociable. Todo depende de lo que se entienda por ser sociable, ¿no? Para mí, representa hablar de cosas como estas. –Hizo sonar unas nueces que habían caído del árbol del patio-. O comentar lo extraño que es el mundo.

Creen que soy insociable. No me adapto. Es muy extraño. En el fondo, soy muy sociable. Todo depende de lo que se entienda por ser sociable, ¿no? Para mí, representa hablar de cosas como éstas. —Hizo sonar unas nueces que habían caído del árbol del patio—. O comentar lo extraño que es el mundo. Estar con la gente es agradable. Pero no considero que sea sociable reunir a un grupo de gente y, después, no dejar que hable.

Like many shy people, once he began talking he seemed not to know how to stop; he lacked the social sleight of hand to change the subject, and he had no idea how to engage another person. Like a runaway vehicle, he plunged on, heedless.

las personas tímidas, emocionalmente dependientes, represoras e introvertidas parecen estar caracterizadas por lo que podríamos llamar una personalidad inasertiva.

As much as I would love to be a person that goes to parties and has a couple of drinks and has a nice time, that doesn't work for me. I'd just rather sit at home and read, or go out to dinner with someone, or talk to someone I love, or talk to somebody that makes me laugh.

Some people said a lot in quiet voices, some said nothing in loud ones.

Martha Quest, who thought of herself as so adventurous, so free and unbounded—the fact was, even the idea of picking up a telephone and making herself known to a new person troubled her: she made excuses, she could not do it.

this plain, sulky, inarticulate girl, who had never had any

like me, you prefer the company of fine books to that of other people.

I just don't have this magnetic personality that everyone is drawn to. I don't make friends easily... I'm just not one of those people.

I actually find extroversion to be a really appealing personality style.

Sometimes interviews are fun and good conversations, but stuff like photo shoots and appearances at places where you have to meet a lot of people - I was never really made for this kind of stuff.

Some people are made to be famous and do photo shoots, but I'm not one of them. I'm more comfortable in the library!

I would be in a room full of people being loud and running around, and I'd be in the corner just playing with the wall. So I was very, very quiet, but when I really got into the arts, that opened me up.