Shyness Quotes

Sometimes, I think I ought to go back and do at least one thing really well. But again, indolence will probably cause me to hesitate about finding a place to start. Part of that indolence perhaps is due to shyness because I`m a natural hermit. I`ve been in constant motion of escape all my life. I never really found the right corner to hide in.

My first language was shy. It`s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

There is a shyness about me, and I really need to get out more.

I always had a problem with shyness at school and would never stick my hand up in class if I was stuck at something. I didn`t want to be the center of attention, all those eyes looking at me would have made me really nervous. I guess actresses use that adrenalin and it makes them do it better. Does that sound really stupid?

I have been acting since I was in high school. Perhaps even before then if you count all the times I "acted" like I was sick in grade school to get out of going, (those were some of my best performances). Happily, I have worked fairly consistently, however, the audition process (necessary to getting work) has never been one that I have enjoyed. My shyness can sometimes make me quite nervous. Surmounting that obstacle again and again has in itself made getting work slightly less than "easy".

I was incredibly shy when I first got into the business, I still am to some extent. I`ve overcome that shyness through contact sports, but I wanted to find that same confidence interacting with people through acting instead of in the ring.

I am not an adult, that`s my explanation of myself. Except when I am working on a set, I have all the inhibitions and shyness of the bashful, backward child . . . unless I have something very much in common with a person, I am lost. I am swallowed up in my own silence.

I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near me and I didn`t have to talk to anybody because of my shyness. It was great. I was in my fantasy world.

If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I`ve found this to be particularly true in the case of professors or intellectuals, who are full of fascinating information, but need encouragement before they`ll divulge it.

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.

The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid