Shy Quotes

I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don't like the front, the adulation.

My family is the treasure. I thank them heartily but I can't say this seeing them face to face since I'm too shy haha.

I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know.

The year I turned 26, as the head of my own brokerage firm, I made $49 million, which really pissed me off because it was three shy of a million a week.

I'm shy, but when the time comes to be wild, I'm fun-loving, adventurous, and mysterious.

I was painfully shy when I was younger but at some point you've gotta grow up. I think the genius in the man-boy thing is you tap into a woman's motherly instincts.

It's not that easy to find someone I can relate too. I'm tough to crack because I'm shy.

The music is key. It has the power to transport you. I go from being a slightly insecure, shy kind of a person offstage, to this super-confident, motivated, entity onstage.

No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others.

Imitate. Don’t be shy about it. Try to get as close as you can. You'll never get all the way, and the separation might be truly remarkable.

People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong.

The most lasting reputation I have is for an almost ferocious aggressiveness, when in fact I am amiable, indulgent, affectionate, shy and rather timid at heart.

I tend to be sort of quiet and shy and awkward in social situations.

I'm not shy about heated debate or passionate discourse, but when people get crazy or rude, that's a buzz kill. There's got to be a better code of conduct, some basic etiquette.

Swedes are a really humble and shy people in many ways, but I think it's pretty much the same as in the U.S. Little girls want to take photographs with me at lunch.

The company accountant is shy and retiring. He's shy a quarter of a million dollars. That's why he's retiring.

Love taught me to cry So come on courage! Teach me to be shy.

I don't know if it is obvious, but I am extremely shy.

The soul of rock 'n' roll is mistakes, and making mistakes work for you. The people who shy away from mistakes and play it safe have no business playing rock 'n' roll.

In school I was pretty quiet. Kinda shy until my junior year. But at home I was a freak.

I don't think there's anything innately erotic about pigs. But, generally, they are sweet, shy, mysterious creatures. Especially the little ones. When they get big, they get kinda gross

I won't ever shy away from a fight and if it makes sense down the road, I'll do it. But it will be on my terms.

I’m just a real loner kind of person, and yeah, kinda dark. But I’m happy. Not sad. I’m just shy and nervous.

Do people ever get over being shy? I think it’s with you for life-like the color of your eyes.

Be thoughtful of others and you will not be shy, for they are incompatible addictions.

I was shy, but it came out in a big personality. My turning point was when I let my hair go naturally and I got contact lenses. I am really blind, by the way. I have these big eyes that don’t work!

The man form is higher than the angel form; of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being in creation, because he aspires to freedom.

There is an element of seduction in shoes that doesn't exist for men. A woman can be sexy, charming, witty or shy with her shoes.

I'm shy. People get confused. They think as an actor you can get up and be confident on the screen. Why aren't you like this in normal life? Why can't you act in your social life? 'Because I can't!'

The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him.

A woman can be sexy, charming, witty or shy with her shoes.

There was Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, an aloof superstar who had everything and needed no one. And Michael Jackson, the shy kid under the mask, who lacked even a single real friend.

When I was a child, I was very shy, and there's still a part of me that's very shy.

Come from a place of love. Love isn't passive or shy. It's actually the most powerful energy in the universe.

Let's say that, in reality, I'm basically very shy when it comes to men.

The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and I think that is something which is important for me to learn to do.

I'm shy, but not on a one-to-one basis. Over the years, I have become acclimatised to a bit of publicity.

I wasn't a great student, C average. I was pretty shy, but I drank a lot of beer.

As a little kid, I was very shy.

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 speak many times about Stephen Ireland, that he is shy like a hedgehog.

I'm just a shy and retreating kind of person. Sometimes I get in a real talkative mood - but not very often.

I'm very shy so I became very outgoing to protect my shyness.

I didn't have a boyfriend until I was 17. There were boys at school that I would find out later had a crush on me but I was too shy to talk to them.

Have I ever been the shy retiring type? Never. Not since the day I was born.

I become irritated when I am being written off as aloof or stand-offish when I'm shy and don't know what to say.

Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.

Fear pounds on the door to our heart demanding to be let in. Joy is modest and often comes into our lives like a shy person entering a room; it can take a while to even notice it's there.

Photography came as a substitute. I was painfully shy and found talking to people difficult; a camera in hand gave me a function, a reason to be somewhere, a witness, but not an actor.

I was a shy kid, a late bloomer. At 22, I was probably 16 emotionally.