Quotes About Shyness

As a kid, I was really shy. Technically I am still, but when I'm performing I want everybody to listen.

I remember being a teenager and seeing Seymour Cassel across a crowded room and being incredibly star struck, and not having the courage to say, 'Hello.'

I was a shy kid, but somehow I knew I would make it as a performer. I'd always be telling my mum that I was going to be a famous singer. In my school yearbooks I would write, 'Remember me when I'm famous.' I knew I had a gift.

My mother tells me I regaled people with stories but I don't remember that. And she disputes the idea that I might be chronically shy. She says I was the most outgoing of all of us.

Bashfulnesse Of all our parts, the eyes expresse The sweetest kind of bashfulnesse.

People mistake shyness and reclusiveness- both of those- for arrogance. It's a convenient label slapped on by those who see only the surface of things and nothing more.

The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him.

I was a very shy and introverted person, and it was hard for me to talk to people and make relationships.

I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near me and I didn't have to talk to anybody because of my shyness. It was great. I was in my fantasy world.

Shyness in the young may be charming to look at but is painful to the one who suffers it.

In real life I'm very low-key. A wallflower. One of the reasons I went into comedy and acting was that I was sick of being shy.

Good morning," I said awkwardly. Being shipwrecked doesn't make shyness any easier.

I walked all the way around the zoo, and then came back to a girl with a round face and fluffy hair, who looked like a baby owl. I like owls. I was about to say hello when along came Very Cool Girl, with her beautiful hair swinging. She smiled at me, and so did the baby owl. But oh no…My throat closed up. I simply could not speak. I can't talk to strangers! I swerved off, and pretended I'd been headed for a nearby drinks machine.

Unsociable even at home and unable to meet the eyes of strangers when she ventured out, Emily made her awkward way across days and years whose bareness appalls her biographers.

Hesitate in August. Be shy. Let your toes tremble in their sandals. However, pick the grape and eat with confidence.

Devant les personnes qu'il jugait importantes, il avait une raideur timide, ne posant jamais aucune question. Bref, se comportant avec intelligence. Celle-ci consistait à percevoir notre infériorité et à la refuser en la cachant du mieux possible.

There was an assistant professor I kind of had a crush on, but I was far too awkward and far too nervous to ever say anything.

When I was a child, I was very shy and insecure. My mother was very over protective of me. I was a dreamer.

E eu tenho do alto orgulho a timidez E sinto horror a abrir o ser a alguém, A confiar n'alguém. Horror eu sinto A que prescrute alguém, ou levemente Ou não, quaisquer recantos do meu ser.

It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living.

I am very shy with the girls I fancy.

I was very camera shy. People like hot girls, so I put my music to hot girls and it just became a trend. The whole 'enigmatic artist' thing, I just ran with it. No one could find pictures of me.

My parents called me the WB frog. Because when I was onstage, I would do this whole song and dance, but if my parents had a family friend over, I would just go hide in the bedroom.

I'm concerned with the lost, the lonely, the shy. I think shyness is in some ways more widespread now than formerly. I used to be shy myself. Of course, you can't be me now and remain shy, but I remember very well what it felt like.