Growing up, sports was my outlet, my way to portray a personality. I was very shy around people but, through sports, something I was good at, I was able to make friends.
I was pretty shy.
I am really a loner after all; I am really not a social person. Because of my job, people think I am out every night, but I really hate all that. I am somebody who likes to be alone and see some close friends. I am a shy and introspective person.
I’m less shy now than I was as a kid. After Flight 1549, my family and I had to become public figures and more complete versions of ourselves. I had to teach myself to become an effective public speaker.
Anyone who knows me knows that I have never been shy about how important Ferran Adria has been in my life; he is a friend, a mentor, an inspiration.
Physically? If you’ve got really beautiful eyes, you have me in a trance right from the beginning. As far as personality, I’m attracted to really shy girls. Someone who knows who they are and is very genuine. That is just so sexy to me.
I’m a serial monogamist and would never dream of being as predatory as some of the women I’ve played. I can actually be a bit shy.
I got into performing fairly young and went from, like, a shy kid to a total weirdo.
I’m shy. I can go on a trip for days and not go because I won’t sit on a toilet seat on a plane. I’m certainly not going to go on somebody’s lawn. Could you imagine, in a cocktail dress?
I grew up in a very westernised environment and went to a private American school. But my personality was shy and quiet, and I wanted to wear the hijab but didn’t have the courage, as I knew my friends would talk me out of it.
I was very shy and socially awkward.
Everyone told me I could sing from about the age of ten. My mum was always telling me. But I was so shy, I didn’t believe them. And the more that people told me, the more I went into the background and the less likely I was to sing.
Enjoy the pressure. Enjoy the stress. Enjoy being uncomfortable. And don’t shy away from it, embrace it.
I was too shy to be confronted by any kind of audience.
Students shy away from Maths, but in reality Maths is the best friend of man.
I think – I think I’ve always been kind of – I used to think of myself as a piece of rubber when I was a kid because I was kind of very shy and very – very emotional about things, but I kind of would bounce back.
I’m someone who is quite shy, and onstage I’m quite… extrovert.
I was too shy to do any vocal lessons or go to choirs; I just didn’t want to be seen doing it. It’s something that I kept to myself. I started easing into it, and I started doing talent shows, and YouTube really helped with that, too.
Honestly, I am a shy person.
Most of my mannerisms come from my Mum, who is quite a funny, witty, chatty person. My Dad was very shy.
People who ask confidently get more than those who are hesitant and uncertain. When you’ve figured out what you want to ask for, do it with certainty, boldness and confidence. Don’t be shy or feel intimidated by the experience. You may face some unexpected criticism, but be prepared for it with confidence.
I don’t think I’m particularly shy. I just don’t like being front and center as myself.
I didn’t do particularly well with girls at school. I was very shy. I’m not saying that was the only reason I didn’t do well with them, but I just didn’t.
People go into cartooning because they’re shy and they’re angry. That’s when you’re sitting in the back of a classroom drawing the teacher.
When I first started VMware, I was very shy and self-conscious about speaking. I grew out of this by giving talks each week in front of the whole company; gradually, as we scaled, I had talked to more and more people, and this is how I conquered my fear of talking to people.
Put me in a room with a songwriter, and I just clam up. I get shy.
I was very shy and withdrawn as a child, but people know me as these assertive women. They are not me.
Redwoods flourish in fog, but they don’t like salt air. They tend to appear in valleys that are just out of sight of the sea. In their relationship with the sea, redwoods are like cats that long to be stroked but are shy to the touch.
At one point in college I was so shy that I’d drop out of a class if asked to speak in front of other people.
I can go in front of an orchestra. I can go in front of an audience. But if you see me walking through an audience in the reception or through a lot of people, I’m still shy.
I was very shy. I’m still shy.
I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief ‘don’t matter,’ that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.
The industry’s not stupid. The industry knows that if those foods are labeled ‘genetically engineered’, the public will shy away and won’t take them.
I would describe myself as a tallish, shy, middle-aged man who equally loves his work and his freedom. And a good liar!
There’s a negative connotation to ambitious women, and I think that we should be able to be proud of being ambitious and not shy away from that, if that… is what you want to do.
In Bollywood, they like to put us in short clothes. And I am very shy; I don’t like wearing revealing stuff, though my image is such. Unfortunately, it’s a body-obsessed industry.
Some of the greatest actors on the planet are the most insecure people. Now I don’t know if that insecurity necessarily equates to a lack of confidence. Some people are just very shy individuals. You give them a character to play and a script, and you put them in front of a camera or on a stage, and they just go.
I can be very shy. I really like to stay at home with my people because I’m really shy. My wife is as well; we’re both really shy.
I’m a real extrovert, but when I’m round someone new, I’m super shy.
At school, I was a shy lad and still am. But acting gives me licence to be up there, demanding the focus. It’s the one time in my life where I don’t have to shout to be heard.
I grew up a really shy kid, but I always surrounded myself with a lot funny people. It depends on the day – if I feel like being quiet, I will be. I’m not a complete goofball, though.
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.
I’m too shy for personal appearances, and I’ve found out that anytime I talk about my writing, I can’t do any writing for many weeks afterward.
I’m actually quite a shy person and it’s becoming clearer to me. Sometimes I would like to disappear, maybe only for an hour.
I could be myself. I’m very shy and awkward. I think the best thing is to embrace it.
I’ve been shy twice. Once when I saw Matthew Bomer and once when I saw Adam Levine. I couldn’t say anything, literally.
When I was younger I was really shy, but I’d always be singing, driving my family crazy. Apparently I was even singing when I was in the cot. That probably didn’t sound too good!
The reason I feel like I act is because you get to live a million different lives in one. I don’t have to go about my life, just being easy-going New Zealander Rose. Sometimes I can inhabit a feisty, vicious character. Sometimes I can inhabit a painfully shy British girl, or whatever it might be.
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.
I think my mother was baffled by me. We were polar opposites. She was shy and retiring. I was over-fond of the limelight. Many times in my life, I was conscious of embarrassing her with my carrying on.
U2 have a lot of religion, also people like Johnny Cash and Elvis. Those people weren’t shy about it – it’s nice there are people who’ve come before that were open about it.
The British have been particularly shy about the issues of financial regulation, and attentive only to the interests of the City – hence their reluctance to see the introduction of a tax on financial transactions and tax harmonisation in Europe.
I’m shy. I’m not sociable. I’m very insecure.
Though I am a shy person at heart, I explode as a volcano once I open up with people around me, and then I am all fun.
I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people.
