Best 202 quotes in «shy quotes» category

Don't try to be what you're not. If you're nervous, be nervous. If you're shy, be shy. It's cute.

Even now I can't stand being recognized in the street. I just hate it when strangers come up and try to talk to me. I'm pathologically shy.

Even when I became the typical shy adolescent, I never minded performing. I felt there was a kind of safety, a protection about being on stage, about losing myself in another character.

God doesn’t want us to live timid, shy, weak, wimpy, fearful, boring lives. He wants us to be bold, con dent and courageous, unafraid to try new things. And it never ceases to amaze me what God will do through a person who simply steps out in faith.

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

Generally, if I can't be true to the creator's intention and spirit, I will probably shy away from working on a character.

Having limits to push against is how you find out what you can do. I have always been full of contradictions. I am shy but I love the freedom of the stage. I need reassurance but at the same time I don’t want it. I hate being afraid but I can’t help wanting to frighten myself. That is how you grow.

Go see old virgins! Now ask a strange boy out, you shy, Retarded thing!

He's a shy man. Life has taught him not to show off what is most precious to him.

I believe that if you want to go make your mark on the world you've got to go out and do it. Don't be shy, be adventurous.

I always find that I'm less sarcastic in France and maybe I'm a bit more shy and a bit more reserved, even more polite. My voice tends to go up quite a lot. I'd love to speak more languages just to discover who I become in a different language.

I am naturally pretty shy. I've come out of it a pretty good bit because I'm kind of a strange combination of being really shy and also being a born entertainer. I've got both in me and I guess it depends on my surroundings as to what's going to come out more prominently.

I can be shy, but I’m not really. I try to be better at overcoming these things people have said.

I can be very reserved about things. My business side isn't shy. I can be like a general. But I've got a shy side. I'm also a lot deeper than people think, and a lot more sensitive. But I don't let people in too much.'

I could say that making clothes is my way of communicating, because I was always so shy.

I cannot tell you that I am 100-percent comfortable, but for sure I am more confident of my goals, because I know what I can expect from this kind of event. At the beginning, everything was a mysterious, far-from-me world, and now it's more accessible. Of course, exposing myself is always very difficult. I cannot say that I'm a shy person, but I don't see myself as a superstar. I will never see myself like that.

I can't tell stories to save my life. I like to have fun, and I go out and have a lot of fun. But I'm not really an entertainer that way. I'm much more shy.

I could always make people around me laugh. It was more of a defense mechanism more than anything else, because I was a pretty shy guy.

I don't why I was bullied. I was quite shy and skinny. Very nerdy, very bookwormish. I think I was just a target.

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

I feel like politics have always informed what I do. If you know anything about my music, you know I've never been shy about stating how I vote.

If you feel strongly about someone, go up to them. Pursue what you want in life. Why be shy about something like that?

I felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.

If writers possess a common temperament, it's that they tend to be shy egomaniacs; publicity is the spotlight they suffer for the recognition they crave.

If I kind of like a guy, then I'm a fantastic flirt. But with a guy I truly like, I get painfully shy.

If I wanted to go be social I would. I don't have any fear of that. I don't feel like I'm a shy person at all.

I get so nervous. I happen to be socially awkward and shy. I spent a lot of my time as an adult not going places.

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

I have seldom been described as shy.

I had not thought of violets of late, The wild, shy kind that springs beneath you feet In wistful April days.

I learned that you can constantly improve, and that you should not be shy about your views, and about the direction that you believe is right.

I like the really human sides of people. To meet them and see that they’re complicated and weird or shy or any of those things sort of makes it even better—to know that they can rise above that and make something great.

I'm born and raised in the Northeast. My parents are Irish immigrants. So our tendency is to shy away from the big yellow ball that comes up in the sky every once in a while.

I'm actually much more shy and self-conscious than people's perception of me.

I'm a shy, nervous person, and I don't like teaching with "terms." I didn't teach them, like, "This is first person, this is second person, this is foreshadowing," or whatever, so no one probably felt like they were learning anything. But I feel like teaching in that way reduces the concept to a term.

I'm a shy person. I don't know if it's in my DNA to share with the world.

Im a shy person. I contradict my own profession, because Im an introvert in a very glamorous world.

I'm a very shy person and I never tried to do theater.

I'm hideously shy as myself but on stage I can run around naked and bite the heads off fish.

I'm neither shy nor impressed by media and press. It's just another industry to me. My response to the criticism was, "I work with a steel factory. Why can't I work with the media?

I'm like a chameleon. I adapt to my situation. It's very slowed down here. I like it that way. I'm a guy that's very reserved, quiet and shy myself.

I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings.

I'm not a natural story-teller. Put a keyboard in front of me and I'm fine, but stand me up in front of an audience and I'm actually quite shy and reserved.

I'm not good at talking to strangers, whether they're sick children or they're - I'm just not good. I'm shy with it.

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.

I'm so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.

Im shy. I can go on a trip for days and not go because I wont sit on a toilet seat on a plane. Im certainly not going to go on somebodys lawn. Could you imagine, in a cocktail dress?

I'm shy, but I'm not clinically shy. I don't have social anxiety disorder or anything like that. I more have a gentle shyness. Like, I have a little trouble mingling at parties.

I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it.

I'm very shy. I know it's weird for a person who models lingerie and swimsuits, but I don't like to be the center of attention!