Back in 2011, I was kind of shy. I wasn’t as good because that was the year, also, when I started playing basketball.
I was extremely shy, but since college, I think I have opened up and gained confidence. I find it much easier to make friends, I let myself go a bit more.
I think of myself as a shy, modest, relatively unassuming person.
In my freshman year of high school, I don’t think I had a single date. I was really shy, really timid and quiet. I had my first real date when I was a sophomore, with a girl from church.
Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.
I’m actually pretty shy in real life. But I guess in front of the camera, I focus.
My first job had me miscast as a bubbly shopgirl; I was pathologically shy and, thus, tended to replace human speech with excessive head gestures. It was like being waited on by Harpo Marx.
I’m a shy person, so I get really nervous going into interviews.
I wasn’t bullied or anything at school, but I was quite shy and didn’t speak up too much in class.
Freddie was the glue that kept us together. He was a very complex man: very shy but also with a forceful side to him.
I think I’m a really sweet guy, kind of shy and nice and stuff.
I was really shy as a kid.
Truthfully, I’m incredibly shy, and I’m very awkward around boys.
I’ve always been kind of a shy guy. Not very outgoing. I might not start a conversation, but if somebody else does, I’ll chat away.
My good ideas are shy. But if they see that I treat the stupid ideas with respect, they come forward.
I blush easily. I have difficulty meeting people’s eye, difficulty with public speaking, the normal afflictions of the shy, but not to a paralysing degree.
I’m quite shy, really. The figure you see on TV, that’s just a persona. I like getting home, putting my feet up, getting into my slippers and dressing gown.
I used to be so self-conscious about my braces that people thought I was shy – I just never talked. It took me a long time to realize, whatever, it’s not like I’ll have them forever, so I might as well enjoy it while I do!
I sure do love theater. I mean, that’s where I started. I am actually sort of shy, but something happens when the audience comes in. It’s something nice for me. It terrifies me, but I’m able to do it.
I’ve been in pressure situations before. All my life it’s been about pressure and having to get it done. Just because you say it publicly, it does not make me afraid of it or make me shy away from it.
I was mild-mannered, wore glasses, was very shy with women.
I love acting because it’s a bit of an escape. It gives you the ability to reinvent yourself. They say that acting is the shy man’s revenge.
When I was younger, I used to be super, super shy. I still find myself being scared of things.
I had become shy of life’s bustle in my solitary retreat and was apprehensive at the thought of facing the world.
It’s kind of weird – I get shy when I’m around new people, still, even when I’m onstage. I come from not really wanting to be in lights or known or in front of people.
Everybody has their cliques, and I was very shy. I’m still very shy. Music opened up doors. I would get to my choir class, and I was sort of one of the better kids… I could read music. That’s when I realized how good El Coro de San Juan was. I felt, for once, like, hey, I can fit in.
Growing up, if I had been given any advice – bad or good – I probably wouldn’t have been able to act on it regardless. I wasn’t shy, but I’d get nervous. I got a little more confident later in high school when I realized I could get girls to pay attention to me by making them laugh.
I’m too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don’t know.
I am innately very shy, and I have struggled with that challenge for years.
I feel shy when people are fussing on me.
I’m still shy – I’m no good at my children’s parent-teacher conferences, and I’m slowly learning how to ask for what I want. But I now know that I have a reserve of courage to draw upon when I really need it. There’s nothing that I’m too scared to have a go at.
‘Mighty Ducks’ was a great experience, and I don’t shy away from that.
I don’t shy from controversy. I’m telling stories, and I’ll tell whatever story seems like it wants to be told.
I can feel very brave through all the action scenes in front of the people who are on the set, but when a girl comes close to me my face turns red because I’m so shy.
I’m shy at public speaking, which is tough.
Elvis was a sweet darling, shy fellow, but he was really boring.
I’m not shy, exactly, but I am private. I don’t like to talk about myself. I had to learn – I was interviewed for print, radio and even TV.
37 is a lumpy number, a bit like porridge. Six is very small and dark and cold, and whenever I was little trying to understand what sadness is I would imagine myself inside a number six and having that experience of cold and darkness. Similarly, number four is a shy number.
I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead, 19th-century author!
My 7-year-old daughter is not shy of telling me she can draw better than me, and she’s right.
I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
I think I wanted to sing, but I just couldn’t because I was so shy. I didn’t really know how to begin that other than like, singing in my room, locking the door, and trying to sing kind of quietly. I knew my mom would want to listen and she would probably bug me about it.
On the first recording, I wasn’t singing out that much; I was shy with my singing.
Maybe I’m wrong because I’ve not met the person yet, I really don’t think I’d want to be with someone in the industry. I really don’t think so. Once bitten, twice shy.
I was horribly shy all through grade school and high school. But somehow I got up the nerve to audition for one play in high school – ‘Auntie Mame.’ I got a small part as the fiancee who comes on in the end. I got laughs. I wasn’t shy at all doing the part. I can do anything on stage and write it off as a character.
I sometimes shy away because I don’t want to be too ‘showy-offy’ but the older I get I think, ‘You have a handkerchief, put it in your pocket.’
I’ve been successful because I’ve never been someone to shy away from taking responsibility.
Finding ballet gave me passion for the first time in my life. I was always very shy and just wanted to fit in; I never daydreamed about what I wanted to be when I grew up. But dancing gave me a connection to my personality that made me grow.
I didn’t think rap was me. But I was shy to sing in front of people. It’d be so off because I was shy.
Politicians are actors, too, don’t you think? Usually, if you like people and you’re outgoing, not a shy little thing, you can do pretty well in politics.
I’m not shy about wearing a lot of makeup! But when I don’t have to be done up, I just use a bit of concealer and maybe some lip balm.
While I sign off on trades or free agents, I’ve rarely overruled my basketball people’s decisions. But I’m not shy about steering the discussion or pushing deeper if something doesn’t make sense to me.
I am not shy. I am for an open society. I am for a progressive world. I do not propose to reform France; I propose to transform it at its deepest level.
I have social anxiety. It’s easier up on stage because there’s security in being there. When I’m off stage I’m trying not to be a manic freak. I’m quite shy.
It seems like a contradiction, but the shy person who is a performer actually does make sense, because in a way, when you’re young and shy, making people laugh is a good way to make friends. It’s an instant connection.
I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous.
I was so shy when I was younger. When I first went to Liverpool I didn’t say a word for a year.
I was quite shy. I used to write stories all the time, and I think that was a worry for my parents.
I was a shy, awkward sort of a boy and my father’s frequent absences from home, along with my hero worship for him, made me even shyer.
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.
When I am talking to people who I feel don’t like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.
There’s a lot of annoying things about me. I don’t know, I’m really shy at first, and I don’t really like it. I wish I was a little more outgoing.
You have to get over being shy, and just be comfortable with yourself, and I think that for me, if I’d stayed in a small town, I’d be a different person.
I don’t like applause, I must admit. Ultimately, artists are shy creatures; they’re introverts.
Endings are a part of life, and we are actually wired to execute them. But because of trauma, developmental failures, and other reasons, we shy away from the steps that could open up whole new worlds of development and growth.
Beyonce was very shy around children, and one of the reasons we put her in dance classes was so she’d have some little kid friends.
