Quotes About Shyness

What shy, awkward bookworm alive could have resisted that, when the cutest boy she'd ever met in real life was so sweet to her?" He didn't want to be sweet right now.

When it comes to the camera, I can do my thing. But I'm bashful.

My two sons are more excited about my father's birthday than him. Baba is a quiet person by nature and feels shy at any kind of celebration.

I don't like being the center of attention.

I don't really like being in the centre of attention.

My brother, whom I adored, typed out a children's book illustrated by himself... at the age of 14. My sister, with whom I always shared a double bed, had that effortless superiority of someone six years older and anxious to show it. But we were each as shy as voles. It seemed safer to keep to each other's company.

When I told my mum I was going to play my first gig when I was 14, she couldn't believe it, cause I was painfully shy at that time. But I just done it, put my head down and got through it. And I suppose there's still a little bit of that, even though it's many years later and I've been doing it for a long time.

Shyness is invariably a suppression of something. It's almost a fear of what you're capable of.

A lot of actors are relatively shy people, surprisingly, so acting is a way of not being shy - and being paid not to be shy.

I have never met a man more shy than Clark Gable. He was so shy, you couldn't make him talk.

It is awkward to listen to oneself being praised, and I was always a shy man.

I like to dance and sing when there's no one around, but, if I'm out, I'm really shy about it. So it takes a lot to get me going, but I enjoy being around music.

I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree.

Earth is sad, Moon is shy, Sun is happy but wait a moment, I just forgot to tell you that I am the child of open sky.

Your shyness alone will bring you more emotional and material losses than all of your other negative attributes.

Even though I was very shy, I found I could get onstage if I had a new identity.

Shy adults are paradoxically drawn to outgoing people, whose animated body language they find highly attractive.

I started when I was in college because I was shy and thought it would be a good way to break out of that.

When I was a kid, I had a couple of really good friends, like some really good best friends, but I was really shy other than that.

Before I started touring, I worked with someone to help me, even physically, because I was so shy. And you can't be shy going onstage. So I had to push myself in a direction that wasn't myself.

Where is home? Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness. Home is where the heart's tears can dry at their own pace.

Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness.

I was a shy, awkward sort of a boy and my fathers frequent absences from home, along with my hero worship for him, made me even shyer.

I wasn't shy, but I was really hyper. Nobody got my sense of humor. I was a black skater kid.