I Am A Shy Person Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I am a shy person.

Ang Lee

#3. Honestly, I am a shy person.

Blake Lively

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

Enya

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.

Jack Jones

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. If you see a shy person, ask them some questions like, 'Why are you so shy? Tell everyone, we're all listening.

Amy Sedaris

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. I'm pretty shy when I go home because I was pretty shy growing up, and I think I go back to that person.

Kerry Condon

#17. 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

#18. 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.

#19. Who shall ever tell how much an unmerited disfavor crushes a shy person? Who can ever depict the misfortunes of timidity?

Honore De Balzac

#20. I am a very private person. I still get shy at times.

Amy Weber

#21. 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

#22. 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