Best 202 quotes in «shy quotes» category

In today's world you have to interact. You can't be some difficult, shy person who is not able to look somebody in the face; you have to present yourself. You have to know how to talk about your vision, your focus and what you believe in.

I say I’m not shy, but… Acting is a very vulnerable experience, and you’ve got to be really confident to put yourself out there to be judged.

I recommend you stick to your own species, Shy Babe." p. 155

I still sweat bullets if I go on The Tonight Show, but I tell myself, You can either have fun tonight or you can be shy and miserable. You ask my friends or anyone I work with now - nobody would say I was shy.

I sometimes shy away because I don't want to be too 'showy-offy' but the older I get I think, 'You have a handkerchief, put it in your pocket.'

I thought, can you think of any really good reason not to do it? Except that, oh, I'm so shy, or oh, my private life, or oh, are they going to find out how boring I am? You know? And that was the only reason now, in a sense, not to do television. Because it certainly is a method of expression, which has to be accepted as these things come along.

I think when people see that you are shy, or even just calm, collected and reserved, they think you can be pushed around, made to do everything they want - but that's definitely not true of me. The people closest to me know that's not the case. They know I'm not a pushover.

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.

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

I thought [Johnny Wujek] was really cute. And so, I was super shy about getting naked in front of him. I didn't want to show him my goods...because I thought he might be straight.

I used to feel so shy speaking to girls. It was even worse when they were around their crew because they would diss me.

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

I've always been very shy of doing television. I've always said 'no.' Not to be disrespectful to anyone - I didn't want to say 'yes' and then let people down.

I've always been very comfortable wearing not much, in my swimwear or my underwear, or running around naked. I've always been very free like that. I don't really know why, exactly, but I just have been. Not really too shy about that.

I've gotten better at not making people feel uncomfortable with my shyness.

I want to resume the life of a shy person.

I've learned the importance of speaking up for myself and voicing my opinions and my ideas. I'm definitely a shy person.

I was a shy, quiet kid. I was happiest playing by myself with my toys, rather than hanging around people.

I was a fairly shy person - not the hand raising type.

I wasn't bullied or anything at school, but I was quite shy and didn't speak up too much in class.

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

I would never be popular. I didn't want to be; I liked being shy. I'd never be the smartest or the hottest or the happiest. By eighth grade you start to figure out your limits.

I was shy, but I stood up in front of the class and I gave my report.I was reporting on books that I didn't want to read. I was inventing books that I didn't want to read.

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.

Kids are shy and they often don't want to make eye contact or say "thank you.

I would say I was a little bit outgoing, a little bit shy. I was definitely much more shy than my brother. I was young - age six. I was really drawn to music because my brother started playing instruments and I wanted to be at his level, even though I was younger.

I wouldn't say I'm ego-less, but I'd say there's something uncomfortable about the presentation of one's self in the media. Any image sent out is permanently in the spin cycle. And there's a paralysis of that, the way your image is presented. I've always been hesitant, but I'm definitely not shy or anything.

John Wayne was never shy about that fervor, but because he was never overly zealous about his politics, and of course his status as a movie, he was embraced by both the right and the left.

Lonely Places, then are the places that are not on international wavelengths, do not know how to carry themselves, are lost when it comes to visitors. They are shy, defensive, curious places; places that do not know how they are supposed to behave.

Lots of shy people dress a bit too much. It's just kind of an armour. People say the same thing about me.

My job is designing shoes. It's work that happens behind the scenes, as they say, and that suits me just fine because in general I am a shy person. But sometimes I have these extroverted outbursts.

Men, as a general rule, shy away from therapy because there is no obvious way to keep score.

Maybe I'm wrong because I've not met the person yet, I really don't think I'd want to be with someone in the industry. I really don't think so. Once bitten, twice shy.

Most inventors and engineers I've met are like me. They're shy and they live in their heads. The very best of them are artists. And artists work best alone.

Nick! Wait!” – Kyrian ‘Wait, my gluteus maximus. Vampire was shy of a few quarts of blood if he thought Nick had any intention of not going Casper on him.’ – Nick

On a scale of one to ten, I'm probably a six when it comes to flirting. I'm quite shy.

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

People who know me now can't believe I used to be shy, but in some ways I still am.

People think that I'm a really outgoing person because of how I am on stage. But I'm not. I'm really shy.

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

People think that I'm haughty and stuck up, but really I'm just very shy.

Social taboos are shy like virtue; once lost, there is no remedy

The moments when something new has entered us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy embarrassment, everything in us withdraws, a silence arises, and the new experience, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it all and says nothing.

Stanley didn't shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of.

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

Television forces people to be larger than life. I would be too shy.

The problem is that mainly the metal press has an interest in Burzum, and the rest of the world... probably hardly even know Burzum exists, and those who do shy away due to my fairly (:-))

The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because it's boring.

The one good thing about being kind of shy is that nobody bugs you when you want to be left alone.

There's a part of us that looks at our iPhones instead of talking to people because we're shy or because we're a little uncomfortable, but there's also a part where everyone is working so fast and so hard that to actually listen, or to be thoughtful, or to do what you suggested, which is to take even a moment to say, "What can I do that would express care for somebody else?" that is a difficult thing for people to do because they're so overwhelmed with business.