Quotes About Shyness

I was a shy and insecure kid and didn't know quite where I fit.

I have a high degree of sensitivity, always have. I was very shy as a child. I don't know why that was.

Sometimes managers are a little shy to criticize another manager or another operation.

The first time I ever got up on a stage, I did a comedy poem. I don't know how I got there in the first place because I was very, very shy.

I tend to be shy in asking people for photos - other actors that I really like and admire.

I think all girls secretly want to be actresses because acting seems so glamorous. But as a child, I was always the villager who had one line in the school play. I was shy and I had a bit of a lisp.

I was very shy - I didn't speak to anyone outside of my family until the fourth grade.

I was too shy to do anything but read, but there was nobody to tell me what to read.

I had no inclination to perform as a kid. I was a shy child - I always had my nose in a library book. I didn't start acting until I went to college. Once I started, it seemed to fit like a glove. I felt completely at home on stage. It was the perfect way for me to express myself, even better than writing.

In high school, I was too shy to perform. It's one thing to get laughs from your family, to be funny at parties and in class. It's another thing to get up on the stage.

I was painfully shy as a child.

I feel shy when people are fussing on me.

Everyone always wants to say I'm shy. I don't think so, but there's a disconnect with my fans. I want my fans to see me - that's what they never do.

I guess I am actually quite shy, and I've always felt very self-conscious during interviews.

I was never pushed into the industry. I was a very shy child. I was not one to perform for friends and family at every get-together.

We have lost the art of conversation. People are shy and don't know how to approach other people, and they are missing opportunities for relationships. And no one's entertaining at home anymore. They're not having people over for dinner.

Growing up, I was so shy, but it was weird because I was the complete opposite on stage. I was just free to be myself.

I was really shy growing up. I had braces, headgear, and no boobs - still don't. So, the boys weren't interested in me. The only way I could get attention was by being a goof and a dork, which meant a lot of physical comedy.

I would love to get Rihanna on a Khaled song. That's my friend, but every time I'm around her, I get shy.

People who don't know that I do comedy think I'm shy, kind of a dud, and I don't have the wherewithal to prove them wrong. It takes me a long time to get to know people.

I'm really shy, man. I don't really talk much. I just read, sit in my room and just read graphic novels because I don't have many friends and many people that like to talk to me.

I don't really understand it: in real life, I'm often so shy - paralysingly so - but when I'm performing, it's totally different. I feel free.

I was really a shy kid.

I get shy. I think that's in any situation.