Top 92 A Shy Person Quotes
#1. Im a shy person. I contradict my own profession, because Im an introvert in a very glamorous world.
Deepika Padukone
#2. 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.
Jonathan Carroll
#3. It was an interesting process trying to get Bob to talk about the film because he's such a shy person. He generally likes to talk when he really knows he has something to say.
Jay Roach
#6. I really hate being recognised. I'm quite a shy person, and I'm not very good at talking to strangers. So when people come up to me in the street, I just find it quite awkward. I don't really know what to say to them.
Hannah Murray
#7. 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.
Tobey Maguire
#8. I'm a shy person, so I get really nervous going into interviews.
Skylar Grey
#9. I'm a shy person. I don't know if it's in my DNA to share with the world.
Lisa Bonet
#11. From the core, I'm a shy person, but when I'm on stage, I know how to put it aside. Of course, I'm not perfect, but I've definitely grown as far as being comfortable on stage.
Leon Bridges
#12. 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.
Alexis Bledel
#13. Some of my biggest influences are people like Steven Wright and Todd Berry. I'm a shy person, and I don't think people who aspire to do comedy think that's an option.
Ron Funches
#14. Being a shy person, I always felt strange outside with my camera.
Kim Weston
#15. Some people are just quiet - they don't need to be talking all the time and aren't extroverted, but they're not necessarily afraid to talk. I'm not really a shy person.
Chirlane McCray
#16. One of the best places for a shy person to meet people is in a coffee shop. If you are a reader, bring a book and read it there - that gives a guy something to ask you about. Same goes for sketching, writing, or any hobby you can take with you.
Laurie Helgoe
#17. I am basically a shy person, so performing sometimes helps me focus - having all those people concentrate their attention on you. I don't see it so much as becoming another person onstage; it's more exploring a different side of your personality.
Kim Gordon
#18. Dance really built my confidence on stage. I'm still a shy person. But I have a lot more confidence than I did when I started.
Leon Bridges
#19. If you see a shy person, ask them some questions like, 'Why are you so shy? Tell everyone, we're all listening.
Amy Sedaris
#21. The only thing I can do is act, but it's not something I even feel comfortable doing. It costs me a lot, because I'm a shy person, even if I don't look it.
Javier Bardem
#22. Who shall ever tell how much an unmerited disfavor crushes a shy person? Who can ever depict the misfortunes of timidity?
Honore De Balzac
#23. I actually think of myself as quite a shy person, although I know I give the impression of someone much more confident. I think what I do have is a capacity to listen to the other, even if the other is an opponent. That leads, in all senses of the word, to an engagement.
John Berger
#24. As a child, people were always trying to photograph and film me because it's a way for a shy person to find themselves.
Bruce Weber
#25. When a shy person smiles, it's like the sun coming out.
Anita Diamant
#26. I was born in Copenhagen, and when I was a year old, we moved to Bangalore. I was always a shy person and was happy with just a few friends and that came from my own social awkwardness. I did not know how to make conversations.
Deepika Padukone
#27. I've learned the importance of speaking up for myself and voicing my opinions and my ideas. I'm definitely a shy person.
Fiona Gubelmann
#28. I had so many secrets and so much social repression throughout my life. I guess I'm just a shy person and feel like my true self is unacceptable to most people.
Ezra Furman
#29. I am quite a shy person. You say that to people, and they say, 'You do interviews, speeches. How can you be shy?' But, fundamentally, I am.
Nicola Sturgeon
#30. I've always found Mr. Disney to be somewhat of a shy person, a kid at heart.
Annette Funicello
#31. 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.
Christian Louboutin
#33. 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.
Joyce Meyer
#34. I always told myself I didn't do it because I don't hold with hitting women. I still don't. But when a person-man or woman-turns into a dog and begins to bite, someone has to shy it off.
Stephen King
#35. Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.
Jack Jones
#36. I saw all the suffering that Kurt Cobain went through. I saw this real vibrant person turn into a real shy, timid, withdrawn person.
Layne Staley
#37. I'm a very nervous, shy person.
Grimes
#38. I never met a person as determined as my mother. From working hard for six kids to just trying to keep the household down or maintain my father's discipline, my dad, I'm so much like my father too. My father was so introverted, quiet, shy, nice. I got attributes from my father and mother.
Sugar Ray Leonard
#39. People shy away from it [MMA] because they think it's a brutal, brutal sport, and I've said, 'Guys, MMA is safer than football and boxing, ... And people tell me they don't believe it. Am I not the most credible person to give you the answer to that?
Herschel Walker
#40. I was a very shy and introverted person, and it was hard for me to talk to people and make relationships.
Gabriela Sabatini
#41. I like to have my privacy. I don't like people knowing what I do in my free time. I am also a very shy person, but I understand that people want to know more.
Ana Ivanovic
#43. People think that I'm a really outgoing person because of how I am on stage. But I'm not. I'm really shy.
Joel Madden
#44. I am not a people person. It's not that I am shy, but I am more comfortable in an atmosphere of one-on-one. I hate crowds and parties.
Bethany Joy Lenz
#45. Like many shy people, once he began talking he seemed not to know how to stop; he lacked the social sleight of hand to change the subject, and he had no idea how to engage another person. Like a runaway vehicle, he plunged on, heedless.
Joyce Carol Oates
#46. I was a fairly shy person - not the hand raising type.
John Green
#47. I'm quite shy. Really. I'm trying to expand myself as a person more, get involved with people.
Colin Mochrie
#48. I have to be a lot more calculating because I'm a very private person. I actually really struggle with the attention; I'm generally a pretty shy kind of a person. So it's tough figuring out how to manage it. But there are ways of managing it, and you just have to be smart.
Emily Watson
#49. I was a painfully shy person in my pre-acting days.
Lucy Deakins
#50. Unlike the rest of everyone I hang around with, I don't drink, so I remember what happened after shows. And I have never hit on anyone after a show, I'm not that kind of person. Even if I was attracted to someone, I'd be too shy.
Bradford Cox
#51. I am really a loner after all; I am really not a social person. Because of my job, people think I am out every night, but I really hate all that. I am somebody who likes to be alone and see some close friends. I am a shy and introspective person.
Tom Ford
#52. No one shows love. There's no unity between the artists and the streets. There's none of that in D.C. You're never gonna get love in D.C. If you get love in D.C., then you're a special person.
Shy Glizzy
#53. Shy, all those things you listed don't make a person. They don't. I mean it. You're beautiful, both inside and outside, but please don't look at me to validate that. You have to know it for yourself. -Taylor Holden, Strapped.
Nina G. Jones
#54. Michael Jordan on the court is a completely different guy. If the play requires him to leap out all the way and grab the ball, that's what he'll do. He may be a completely shy, withdrawn sort of person [off the court].
Mos Def
#55. I think I'm a shy, self-conscious person who thinks he's being looked at and tries to look okay. Not in a hottie, narcissistic way necessarily.
Mark Leyner
#56. I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
Farrah Fawcett
#57. I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree.
Caroline Knapp
#58. I'm a very shy person and I never tried to do theater.
Sophia Loren
#59. A Coy Aversion
...a flutter
too shy
to be seen...
Muse
#60. It seems like a contradiction, but the shy person who is a performer actually does make sense, because in a way, when you're young and shy, making people laugh is a good way to make friends. It's an instant connection.
Paul Merton
#61. She pushed the revelation about Dr. Kruger into a side pocket of her mind, to be examined more thoroughly another time. Who would ever have suspected that he was shy? That any grownups were, for that matter, and especially a person as important as a doctor?
Beverly Butler
#62. I am really a very shy person. If I appear, it is because of the music, not because I want to be seen.
Enya
#63. Thirty-seven of them will be about shy, reclusive pennsylvania dutch lesbian who wants to write, told first-person by a lecherous hired hand. In dialect.
J.D. Salinger
#64. I was 26 when I went to my first acting class. I'm naturally quite shy. I'm a quite private person. There's this really strange acting class in New York called Black Nexxus. For someone who's slightly shy or self-conscious, it's the most frightening thing you can do.
Hannah Ware
#65. Growing up, I was a very shy, wallflower type. I was not a nerd, but not popular. I was just invisible, like that person you probably didn't know you were in school with.
Jenna Fischer
#66. 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.
Clea Duvall
#67. As a young person, and I know it's hard to believe that I was shy, but you could take your camera, and it would take you to places: it was like having a friend, like having someone to go out with and look at the world. I would do things with a camera I wouldn't do normally if I was just by myself.
Annie Leibovitz
#68. I always had an inferiority complex, like I wasn't good enough. I was shy. But dancing gave me so much joy, and I was good at it. I felt like a whole person because I could dance.
Patricia McBride
#69. I'd always leaned toward the shy side but was never unsocial until I started seeing visions of people from the past. It's a really strange existence, not knowing if the person you're talking to is physically there or not. Not knowing if you're one hallucination away from a psychotic break.
Myra McEntire
#70. I'm not a very shy person. I'm just somebody who's got a lot of work and who doesn't like to parade himself in new celebrity contexts.
Alan Moore
#71. I'm not a real social person - I'm shy - and a lot of the business is just social.
Kim Basinger
#72. I'm actually a very shy person, which is why I always chose to be in the kitchen. You can make people happy and entertain them, without really being there. You can make a very short appearance and then say, 'I've got something on the stove, gotta go!'
Giada De Laurentiis
#73. You have to get over being shy, and just be comfortable with yourself, and I think that for me, if I'd stayed in a small town, I'd be a different person.
Marisa Miller
#74. I'm a relatively shy person, but I love being challenged and putting myself in positions that are scary.
Kim Gordon
#75. I'm a very protective person and I'm very, I don't want to say shy, but I tend to fall for people once I've been around them for a minute because I trust them and I'm willing to let them into my world a little more, so I can definitely say I've fallen for a friend.
Chelsea Kane
#76. I am a very private person. I still get shy at times.
Amy Weber
#77. I'm basically a pretty shy person and I don't dance or get into fights. But there are all these things inside me that get out when I perform. It's like a real world when I play, here I can do all the things that I can't do in real life.
Bill Frisell
#78. She loved all the creatures of the farm. Each one, even a hen, was like a person to her, even more real than many of the real people she knew. Some were playful or bold, and some were shy. Some were gentle, and some were wicked. Some were smart, like Fido, and some were foolish, like the hens.
Roger Lea MacBride
#79. I am a very shy person who is just close to himself. So I would refrain from talking about my personal life.
N. T. Rama Rao Jr.
#80. I'm just a loyal person. I'm loyal to myself.
Shy Glizzy
#81. I was a skinny, scrawny guy. I stuttered horrendously, couldn't speak at all. I was a very shy, reserved player and a very shy, reserved person. I found a safe place in life in basketball.
Bill Walton
#82. In real life I'm obviously a lot more shy, but once I'm on set and in costume and I'm hidden behind the person I'm playing I feel quite free to experiment.
Isla Fisher
#83. I'm shy in person - so afraid to confess my love - I need a go-between - our mutual friend, the Moon ...
John Geddes
#84. I'm actually a really shy person. I just really enjoy being in studio; I don't go out much.
Lykke Li
#85. I'm actually a very shy person. You'd be surprised how many leaders are shy. They're not all extroverts by nature.
Larry Harvey
#86. I'm just a shy and retreating kind of person. Sometimes I get in a real talkative mood - but not very often.
Brian Wilson
#87. He's holding an armful of pink tulips and wearing a hungry, focused expression. His blue eyes
travel up and down over my body, and I feel almost shy under his gaze.
"You're a goddess."
He says it like a normal person would say, "Your dress is white.
Liz Reinhardt
#88. 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!
Marisa Miller
#89. 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.
Neil Diamond
#91. When I was at Brown, I wanted to write the great American novel, but I was too scared to take a creative course. I signed up for one, got in, and just didn't have the courage to go. I was a tremendously shy person, almost pathologically shy. The thought of peers critiquing my work - oh, God.
Nathaniel Philbrick
#92. The truth is that to enjoy acting one must be an exhibitionist at heart, one must revel in those exposures of the emotions which would be agonizing to a shy or reserved person. All the great actors have been and are exhibitionists.
Leslie Howard
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