If I feel I am not doing something right, I express it to people and to the media, too. I wouldn’t shy away from that. It’s healthy to interact. What you see is what you get with me.
No one can escape politics. We are all in it. Even if we shy away from it, I just decide to embrace it. And I try to be an ally for other fights.
For me, there’s no dichotomy between being shy or a performer, because I think it’s more a way of slightly presenting a version of things to the world.
Although I was a shy child, I was also a bit flamboyant.
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.
Kids naturally tend to be a bit camera shy, especially in front of strangers.
I’ve never had a desire to be famous. Lots of actors are actually extremely shy. I have shy areas.
Lisa understands me. I’m very complex, but I have trouble opening up to people. I tend to keep things to myself. All my life, I’ve been kind of shy – opening up is always a challenge and Lisa can understand that.
I’m quite shy. Really. I’m trying to expand myself as a person more, get involved with people.
I was terribly shy and never said anything in class. Then I started getting into school plays. When you’ve got words to say, you’ve got a sort of armour.
People think that I’m a really outgoing person because of how I am on stage. But I’m not. I’m really shy.
I have a very toxic combination of being completely determined, inflexible, controlling and being totally shy, guilty at hurting anyone’s feelings, hypersensitive to other people’s needs – and it’s just paralysing.
I think I was a shy kid. I grew up without television. I had a dog, and we lived up in the White Mountains in the summer, and I had no friends up there. And I would just go play hide-and-seek with my dog and probably had some imaginary friends.
I was possibly shy. I don’t know why some people are shy and some aren’t. Some people blush very easily.
I’m still a really shy performer and can’t wear high heels and need to be with bare feet.
A shy kid might look longingly at other kids playing in the schoolyard, afraid and unsure about how to approach them, but an introvert is perfectly content on her own.
I sense from people that they get frustrated with me for not being out and about. But I guess I’m a shy boy.
I was shy. I was more than shy.
I have a high degree of sensitivity, always have. I was very shy as a child. I don’t know why that was.
I’m really shy with my acting when it’s off, because the camera gives me an excuse to be in character, whereas otherwise I would just feel like an idiot.
Truthfully, I’m incredibly shy, and I’m very awkward around boys.
I try to shy away from playing cranky people, but if it’s just a funny next-door neighbor or business man, I’ll say, ‘Sure, why not?’
I think being shy or a little bit more mild-mannered is more how you treat people and how you go about your business, not necessarily how you dress or things of that nature.
I was a very shy kid. In 8th grade, I had a teacher who got me into improv.
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.
I never want to shy away from a challenge.
At 6 years old, the ice became a place for me to express myself. Because I was so shy off the ice, it became my safe haven, with music and freedom and self-expression. That was my emotional outlet.
I’m feeling more and more thoughts that aren’t songs, just reflections. I’m always been very shy and in some ways a prisoner in one language and I feel that the liberation of creativity has to be in all senses. So I’ve been deciding to publishing something very simple but very small at the same time, nothing egocentric.
I was kind of a cross between Kristy and Mary Anne among ‘The Baby-Sitters Club’ characters. I was shy, but I was also kind of a tomboy, and I was really good at sticking my foot in my mouth even though I was shy.
One of the best places for a shy person to meet people is in a coffee shop. If you are a reader, bring a book and read it there – that gives a guy something to ask you about. Same goes for sketching, writing, or any hobby you can take with you.
We have enforced a Darwinian process on wolves, turning them into the shy and elusive animals they’ve become. They didn’t have that fear of us 30,000 years ago. We didn’t have gunpowder; we had rocks. Wolves would have seen us as lunch, and we were weak and slow and tasty.
I do take my work very seriously, and I am first and foremost a very dedicated actor. I am also a very shy guy so you won’t find me chatting or talking that much.
I’m shy, but sometimes my voice is so clear and strong. Your tongue moves, and the Arabic language is so beautiful.
For me, aggression means not to be shy and to do what your mind tells you.
I keep reading that I’m cold. But I’m not, I’m shy. And I play a lot of women of fire and sexuality like an animal – so I’m cold on one side and fiery on the other.
I’m quite a shy person, and I dislike narcissism intensely.
Stanley didn’t shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of.
Sometimes managers are a little shy to criticize another manager or another operation.
I still sweat bullets if I go on The Tonight Show, but I tell myself, You can either have fun tonight or you can be shy and miserable. You ask my friends or anyone I work with now – nobody would say I was shy.
I’m a very shy, introverted person.
I’m shy. I’m not outgoing. I’m a homebody. I am on TV, but you know, it’s interesting. How much do I talk on TV?
I’m actually a very shy person, which is why I always chose to be in the kitchen. You can make people happy and entertain them, without really being there. You can make a very short appearance and then say, ‘I’ve got something on the stove, gotta go!’
He was a very quiet and shy person but that drum kit gave him that voice. ‘Bonzo’ was the guy in Zeppelin. John was my dad.
I just liked music, and I really liked rock guitar. I didn’t think I was going to be a rock guitar player, because I was a girl. I would’ve been too shy to play with guys.
I was shy talking about certain things, and I was shy with being honest because I didn’t want people to judge me talking about fatherhood and how somebody should have my child around me.
I’ve always been quite shy. Very confident but very shy.
For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.
You know as I started as a shy young conductor, I always wanted to cooperate. To build up the musicians. To help them to be better than without a conductor. And sometimes young talented musicians have to be encouraged.
I was so full of joy, the happiest kid. Things changed. I don’t want to talk about it. I needed attention. I was pathologically shy. I’d climb the highest tree or try to ski off the highest mountain. I’d get into fights. I wanted contact. I’d hit somebody, just for that.
But Hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns.
I’m part Bridget Jones, part Larry David. I’m shy; I’m prude.
I’ve come from nowhere, and I’m not shy to go back.
People tend to shy away from rotation with resistance because they think they’re going to get hurt. Like, ‘If I move in that motion with that weight, I’m going to pull my back.’ But you’re not.
I’ve always found Mr. Disney to be somewhat of a shy person, a kid at heart.
I was very shy and somewhat awkward. I studied too hard. And to have this exciting dorm life was a whole new thing.
I’m not shy. I’m modest, but I’m very outgoing.
I was a really shy kid.
I loved to make people laugh in high school, and then I found I loved being on stage in front of people. I’m sure that’s some kind of ego trip or a way to overcome shyness. I was very kind of shy and reserved, so there’s a way to be on stage and be performing and balance your life out.
Young adult novels don’t shy away from the discussion of weight issues, and ‘Blubber,’ the tale of an overweight, not-so-sympathetic fifth-grader bullied by her peers, is a refreshing take.
I think we shouldn’t be shy of thinking that we can interpret text like a movie again, depending on the point of view and what we do with it more than anything else. Of course a lot of remakes of important films, particularly of horror films, they suck.
I’m too shy to do kissing scenes.
I’m always shy and timid when I write in front of people.
Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.
I hate to think of a day where a compelling book or a compelling authorial voice would be lost simply because that person doesn’t have a Web site. But I think that, to use the Internet in a positive way, to turn people on to reading, is something that authors shouldn’t really shy away from necessarily.
I was cripplingly shy. When I was in high school, my teachers thought I was mentally disabled because I wouldn’t be able to say anything or do anything. They thought I didn’t speak.
Sometimes I’m really funny, sometimes I’m quiet, sometimes I’m shy, but I’m constantly changing.
