Quotes About Shyness

I wasn't confident at all as a boy and I'm still not now. I'm one of the shyest people you'll meet. My success at football was down to playing with my brother and his mates in the street.

I'm very secretive about my feelings, very shy.

Owl City is exactly as you'd imagine him. It's hard to have much on him. He's like a frightened bunny. I feel like if you yelled at him, he'd just dart to a corner of the room.

A twisted sort of shyness has evolved as the digital self becomes less and less like the real-life operator. The ego is the playmaker; the character is the observer, as the external world shrinks to the size of Billy's bedroom.

What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people.

The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual.

I did a lot of acting when I was a child. I was very shy - the kind of kid who ran into a corner and cried on parents' visiting day.

I never really sang for anyone, apart from in the shower or with my best friend. I was shy. I didn't want to take voice lessons. I knew I could sing, but I just didn't tell anyone.

I was shy: I sang at home but not in public. My dad's side of the family sang, so I would hear their voices and think mine couldn't compare.

I was a shy kid, wasn't necessarily an extrovert, but I couldn't help doing voices.

I was voted 'most shy' in seventh grade! Can you even believe it?

I'm not an exhibitionist in any way, shape or form. I don't even like having my picture taken!

I was a shy kid and acting did bring me out of my shell during high school.

I'm like a coy and go into my shell when I face girls.

I don't like to run around with my shirt off. I'm very shy in that sense.

It's mad for me because I'm kind of shy. When everyone's running up to me shouting, 'Can I take pictures?'

You could ask a lot of people in my childhood, and they'd say I was very prudish about showing off skin.

I'm awkward around girls.

I gave up ballet when I was four because I was so shy.

The bashful are always aggressive at heart.

I was a very shy kid. The only place I had confidence was in between the lines of a basketball court.

She'd never really known her father. Probably nobody had. With his shyness and his formality and his tyrannical rages he protected his interior so ferociously that if you loved him, as she did, you learned that you could do him no greater kindness than to respect his privacy.

With his shyness and his formality and his tyrannical rages he protected his interior so ferociously that if you loved him, as she did, you learned that you could do him no greater kindness than to respect his privacy.

Escúchame. Soy tímido. No tonto. No puedo mirar a la gente a los ojos. No sé si entiendes lo que se siente. Hay todo un mundo que existe a mi alrededor, lo sé. No es que no quiera mirarte. Es que no quiero que me vean. Tengo miedo de lo que veréis dentro de mi. Me avergüenzo, me da miedo que me mires a los ojos y descubras algo malo, estropeado.