Top 50 Introvert Quotes

As evidenced during my failed audition, I’m a thorough introvert who would completely hate living in a ‘Real World’ house. I would have taken my Ikea comforter to the confessional room and never come out.

I am basically very introvert and shy, but when in the presence of the audience, my celeb image requires me to reciprocate their affection.

When an introvert is quiet, don’t assume he is depressed, snobbish or socially deficient.

People that want to be in the tabloids will get into the tabloids. I just stay home and don’t go out much. My personality is not an introvert, but that’s how I am as far as going out to parties. I just stay in my house and hang out with friends.

I’m an introvert at heart… And show business – even though I’ve loved it so much – has always been hard for me.

Much of the time I’m an introvert, by choice spending a lot of time on my own. I suppose liking my solitude is part of a writer’s sensibility.

I’m an introvert somewhat. There could be a room full of people, I’ll go stand in the corner.

I was an introvert.

At Uber, we say, ‘Always be hustling.’ Even if you are an introvert and you haven’t got hustle in you, you better get a co-founder who does. And if you haven’t got enough hustle to find a co-founder who’s got hustle, it’s going to be tough. You’ve got to have a little hustle in you.

I am who I am. I am not very complicated. I am simple and an introvert.

I’m an off-the-charts introvert. To me, being around groups of strangers is exhausting. I’ve had to sort of train myself to think about two tactics: finding common ground and invoking humor.

But looking back, the fact was that I had a couple of big hits too quickly and it was simply too much for an introvert like me to handle.

Being a writer is a very private, internal process. Ultimately I am more the writer, being an introvert.

When I first read the words ‘introvert’ and ‘extrovert’ when I was 10, I thought I was both.

I had this idea that being an introvert was a negative thing, that it had a negative connotation, and I really wanted, as a young person, to strive to be the life of the party and to be really outgoing and to have a million friends. And then I realized that an introvert isn’t a negative.

My worst trait is that I’m an introvert. When I’ve led stuff, the hardest thing for me to overcome has been my natural desire to run and hide. I’m very proud of the fact that I have been able to do that.

There’s a lot to love about America – freedom, the melting pot of diversity, individualism – all attractive concepts, especially to an introvert. In fact, the introverts were probably the first to feel crowded in England and to daydream about all the space they would find in the New World. Peace! Quiet!

I can be a different person at different moments. I may sound chatty and friendly but that could really be a reserved person trying hard not to appear to be an introvert.

I am an introvert. I should get that out there now.

I’m not sure if I’m an introvert or extrovert. I love being around people, but sometimes I do need to go off and fart.

I was an introvert really. I spent a lot of time in the crib reading books. Staying out of trouble.

I have always been a bit of an introvert. In fact, my dad used to force me to meet people so that my interpersonal skills improve. As an individual, I was happiest when left alone.

Most bodybuilders are somewhat extravert so they probably enjoy that whole thing of people looking at them all the time and being on stage. I was an introvert and not really interested in that, I was doing it for myself.

Theatre is something that keeps me very alert, and I am actively creating whether I am on stage or directing. In films, I feel I become more of an introvert, going deeper in the realism of a character.

I think people think I’m a extrovert but really I’m a introvert.

It was easy for me in my bathrobe to provide really great customer service. As an introvert, it’s really much easier to do than when standing in a retail store.

I’m an introvert. I get my energy by spending time alone. I need that hour or two to myself every day.

There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.

I’m an introvert and a shy person.

I felt like an ugly duckling back in school. I was a complete tomboy with short hair. Never in my dreams did I imagine that I would walk the ramp with 6-inch heels. My friends can’t believe that I’m an actor, because I was such an introvert in school.

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 am an introvert; privately I am very shy, and I don’t speak unless I have to.

I’m not an introvert. I’m media shy.

As an introvert, you have to spend a lot of time with me and then little bits of my personality will come out over time. But as an artist, sometimes you only get five minutes to impress someone, so it is kind of hard.

I didn’t come from the West Coast experience, I came from Dallas and I was an introvert and a nerd.

I’m an introvert.

People assume a lot about me. Some people come up and think I’m hard. I’m actually very, very shy. I’m bubbly in the right circumstances. But I’m a big introvert.

Shyness is about the fear of social judgments – at a job interview or a party you might be excessively worried about what people think of you. Whereas an introvert might not feel any of those things at all, they simply have the preference to be in a quieter setting.

People who know me personally know me as an introvert.

My mother was an introvert and quite religious. And we were brought up in the church. And when she learned that I wanted to act, she simply said: ‘You cannot live here and do that.’

I am a very shy and an introvert by nature and I take a lot of time to open up.

One of the big surprises for me about Einstein was… that he wasn’t this big introvert; he was more like a novelist or a painter. It’s amazing how close society came to not benefiting from Albert Einstein’s genius.

Surprisingly, I think if you’re known on the Internet, you’re probably an introvert.

I tend to be more of an introvert when I’m traveling. I do a lot of people-watching and espresso-drinking.

By nature, I’m an awkward person; I’m a gangly introvert.

There’s a really positive side of being an introvert – you really pick up on things a lot more than your extroverted counterparts.

I don’t have many friends in the television industry, as I am an introvert who likes her own set of friends. I also don’t plan for the future and believe in living for the moment.

I’m an introvert by nature.

I’m an introvert… I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.

I was very introverted. I am still an introvert.