Shy Quotes

I've been around two years shy of 50 years doing what I do. I am a musician.

I found myself getting more publicly shy when the gala events and big crowds started. Some people embrace it. To me, it's not worth enough to risk my private life being public.

I've always felt a bit weird, very shy.

I am rather discreet and shy!

I'm still a shy person. I've learned to put that aside on certain occasions. I have to. It's part of my job.

I think most actors are shy. I really do. The greatest actors can disappear. I had friends call me the Blend-In Man.

I'm a very shy person towards my intimacy and private life.

I am really a very shy person. If I appear, it is because of the music, not because I want to be seen.

I want to resume the life of a shy person.

I was regarded as the school freak which further reinforced a lot of inhibitions and doubts I had about myself. I was a shy, frightened teenager for a long time.

A little praise is good for a shy temper; it teaches it to rely on the kindness of others.

Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That's what life's all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.

It is a good idea to 'shop around' before you settle on a doctor. Ask about the condition of his Mercedes. Ask about the competence of his mechanic. Don't be shy! After all, you're paying for it.

I suppose expectations are strange and I shy away from them. And the whole point of being an actor is to connect.

I've always been quite shy. Very confident but very shy.

I'm shy and can't for the life of me barge around and slap people on the back. I sit in a corner by myself and am tickled to death when someone comes over to talk to me

I was a shy kid with a broom handle that I pretended was a microphone.

I'm very shy in a crowd.

I'm very quiet and shy in my personal life, as hard as that is to believe.

I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.

I used to be very shy. When I first started, I had to go to a casting, and I had to go in a bikini. I thought I was too skinny. But I went in and got the job! And that's how I started.

I still have shy qualities but nobody would believe that, just because we’re in the forefront and I can talk a lot of mess and I can run my mouth.

There is this immediate connection, this intimacy when you're acting because there's no room to be polite or shy. Also, as an actor I get to connect with women I've never met before.

As a kid, I never thought I'd be an actress. Never, ever, ever, no way. I was really shy - bordering on social disorder shy - and I was really academic.

I don't like when there's too much conversation because I'm shy and it makes me uncomfortable.

From a timid shy girl I had become a woman of resolute character, who could no longer be frightened by the struggle with troubles.

One is always half mad when one is shy of people.

I've been able to perform in front of thousands of people on stage in a character that's nothing like me. I'm very shy.

The rules, religion to religion that man set forth, made me shy away from religion and have my own one on one with God and cut out the middleman.

I was just genuinely shy. I'd always been a shy kid.

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've always been a little shy about taking my clothes off, but I don't worry about it any more.

I was extremely shy and had a terrible fear of public speaking. But I had fallen in love with stand-up.

All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be, I am a dancer. But I don't think I would be on 'Dancing with the Stars,' mainly because I would be too shy.

I used to be shy about ordering a steak after I had eaten a steak sandwich, but I got used to it.

When I was younger, I used to be super, super shy. I still find myself being scared of things.

When I was a little bit younger The strain I was under could make me cry. Now I'm a little bit older, A little bit bolder, Never so shy

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 a late bloomer. I was a kinda shy little kid, definitely a child of the dark side. I wanted to play guitar and be in a rock band.

Through the open door A drowsy smell of flowers -grey heliotrope And white sweet clover, and shy mignonette Comes fairly in, and silent chorus leads To the pervading symphony of Peace.

I might be shy, but in the field, where I have to do my work, I do it. I let my bat speak for myself.

Not like Tobias, who is almost shy when he smiles, like he is surprised you bothered to look at him in the first place.

Although I am a public figure, I'm still a little shy. I don't think my own personality is important. I prefer to keep some small dosage of privacy.

I believe Donald Trump is the best guy for president; and I'm not going to shy away and I take the risk. I could just stay home and don't talk about any candidate.

My first acting experience was a non-speaking role as a robot. My costume was a cardboard box covered in tinfoil, but I was so shy I refused to go on stage.

Don't be shy about making a teacher of any willing party who knows what he or she is doing.

I genuinely enjoy talking one-to-one. I have no shyness about that.

I was so shy at school that I hardly ever talked, so everybody thought I was kind of a hermit.

Women are sort of like motorcycle gangs with me. They get really shy and polite. I don't know why.

Mrs. Parks was a shy, soft spoken woman who was uncomfortable being revered as a symbol of the civil rights movement. She only hoped to inspire young people to achieve great things.