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Quotes About Shyness

I was very shy, but when I performed, I felt like I was in my own little world. I became more confident. Dancing taught me discipline and to feel comfortable in my own skin.
~ Olga Fonda
As a kid, I was very shy.
~ Daveed Diggs
I can secretly sing. But I am extremely shy when it comes to singing in public.
~ Michelle Carter
My mom is an entertainment attorney, and she brought me to a BMI panel for people who were interested in becoming artists. While I was there, her friends kept peer pressuring me to go and sing in front of everyone because I was a very, very shy girl.
~ Justine Skye
I found it hard to express myself in the world. I was very shy. I'm still very shy. But also, when I was a child, I could get very... I had this violence... I still get angry. But I don't break things; I'm not hysterical.
~ Lea Seydoux
I got more shy as I got older and realized people could be laughing at me or judging me.
~ Missy Elliott
In general, I probably have a shy nature. So the idea of poking out with my music is probably not something I want to do.
~ Thomas Newman
I was very shy and reserved, so it was a bit contradictory to get into politics.
~ Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
I was very shy about acting. I thought you had to be confident. I was confident with my friends, but I would never think of acting in front of anyone else.
~ Sarita Choudhury
I was a very shy kid. In 8th grade, I had a teacher who got me into improv.
~ Mo Collins
I was a shy little kid, and getting up in front of people and making them laugh and being able to carry on a dialogue rather than a monologue was something that was pretty interesting to me because you could set yourself up - you could ask a question and then answer it.
~ Jeff Dunham
I was possibly shy. I don't know why some people are shy and some aren't. Some people blush very easily.
~ Roger Moore
I could never imagine myself acting in front of a camera or doing anything in front of the camera. I was a very shy girl.
~ Disha Patani
Good actors, actually, in real life, are shy and very quiet people a lot of the time.
~ John Waters
On the first recording, I wasn't singing out that much; I was shy with my singing.
~ St. Lucia
I'm very shy and awkward; I can't have a normal conversation, and then people think I'm being a bit rude, but really I'm not.
~ Eliot Sumner
I was actually a really sort of nervous, shy kid. In high school, it was one of those things where I wasn't popular or a loser; I just don't think many people really knew who I was.
~ Hasan Minhaj
If I fancy someone but can't tell them because I'm shy, I'll think, 'It's fine. You're not going to die. Maybe just tell them or whatever.'
~ Shura
I was very shy and withdrawn as a child, but people know me as these assertive women. They are not me.
~ Bea Arthur
I was a shy kid. I was awkward. I was picked on.
~ Josh Groban
I am such a shy guy.
~ Barun Sobti
When you're first starting on a project, you feel shy because you don't know very much, and you know that you're going to be ignorant and seem ignorant.
~ Lawrence Wright
In regard to performing, it couldn't be funnier that I ended up being an actor, because I'm really shy. Unless I'm really comfortable with a person.
~ Dylan O'Brien
I used to carry a briefcase instead of a school bag when going to school because I was shy and introverted then. But over the years, especially Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT) helped me overcome these insecurities and scale greater heights.
~ Rajeev Suri