Quotes About Shyness

Being an actress, I find myself people-watching and I can be quite shy.

I was so shy when I was younger. When I first went to Liverpool I didn't say a word for a year.

I think - I think I've always been kind of - I used to think of myself as a piece of rubber when I was a kid because I was kind of very shy and very - very emotional about things, but I kind of would bounce back.

People think I'm so strong, but I'm very shy.

I was always much more shy. All I knew was that I loved to act. But I don't know about the other part of it. I'm not sure I had the chutzpah to go and prove yourself.

I've always been quite shy. Very confident but very shy.

I'd been shy since childhood, constantly full of self-doubt. And as an actor, I'd been so scared of failing that I made my career - and myself - a big joke.

I loved acting as a kid because I was kind of shy, so it brought me out of myself.

I was shy at school.

My problem with being an actor was that I was far too shy to actually do it.

I was always shy and had a huge fear of being onstage.

I was a chronically shy child. That kernel of my younger self is still there, but I've developed mechanisms to deal with it.

If anyone approaches me and asks if I'm Mollie from The Saturdays, I'm immediately shy and embarrassed.

I was very shy and I was very introverted as a kid, but whenever I set foot on stage, I kind of opened up, and I think a lot of kids need an outlet to express their creativity. And a lot of kids are scared to do that if there's not a safe environment for that.

As a shy kid growing up in Sheffield, I fantasized about how it would be great to be famous so I wouldn't actually have to talk to people and feel awkward. And of course, as we all know from fairy stories, when you achieve that ambition, you find out you don't want it.

I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is.

It was like that for the first six months after 'E.T.' was in cinemas. I'd go out and get mobbed. I was a shy kid, and being approached by adults all the time just freaked me out.

I didn't start singing with my eyes open until I was 19 - that's how shy I was!

Normally, I'm so shy.

When I was little, I had a feeling that I was going to end up being an actress. I spent a lot of time alone, I was a very shy girl, and I would pretend I was telling someone about this new role that I got.

I think when people see that you are shy, or even just calm, collected and reserved, they think you can be pushed around, made to do everything they want - but that's definitely not true of me. The people closest to me know that's not the case. They know I'm not a pushover.

I never was shy, but as far as telling jokes, I'm the worst. I like physical comedy; it's where I feel comfortable.

As a kid, I never thought I'd be an actress. Never, ever, ever, no way. I was really shy - bordering on social disorder shy - and I was really academic.

I've always been really shy. I was always afraid of any kind of confrontation.