Famous Quotes & Sayings

I did have my struggles, and I'm not going to shy away from that. But as the year progressed, I got more comfortable.

Caroline Kennedy

I'm not as shy as everybody makes me out to be.

Agnes Varda

I'd been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that's part of being shy.

Alan Moore

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.

Al Pacino

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

Charlotte Gainsbourg

Before I started touring, I worked with someone to help me, even physically, because I was so shy. And you can't be shy going onstage. So I had to push myself in a direction that wasn't myself.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I'm a very shy person towards my intimacy and private life.

Beyonce Knowles

I was so shy and when my sister was born I found it hard. I was really strange and kind of too quiet.

Derek Jeter

I like to dance and sing when there's no one around, but, if I'm out, I'm really shy about it. So it takes a lot to get me going, but I enjoy being around music.

Kate Micucci

I'm really shy - I don't do karaoke.

Diana Taurasi

I'm not afraid of anyone. I'm not shy about anything. Not even my big nose.

Carine Roitfeld

Monsier Saint Laurent was pathologically shy, and he made the Saint Laurent woman in his own image. Like her, I am shy. And to protect myself, I adopted something of an androgynous look, just as his women did.

Ana Beatriz Barros

Americans are shy about the body. I have to remember that when I go there.

Amy Weber

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

A. J. Liebling

I used to be shy about ordering a steak after I had eaten a steak sandwich, but I got used to it.

Dwayne Hickman

I was just standing around and suddenly I was cast as an extra. I hated it because I was so shy.

Ann Patchett

One must not be shy where language is concerned.

Andrew Clements

I almost tell him that I'd never be able to do something like that, just take out my instrument and begin playing on a street corner. But it feels to personal. Yes, I'm shy, but why bring it to his attention? I'm too shy to talk about how shy I am.

Dorothy Allison

I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed in the same direction everybody else's was. And that life was going to be very, very complicated. And that I could either be provocative and declamatory, or shy, retiring and scared.

Don Rickles

I'm very shy so I became very outgoing to protect my shyness.

Alison Goldfrapp

I think a lot of singers are shy people. I suppose singing on stage is not like talking; you are not as exposed.

Ang Lee

I was very quiet, very shy and docile.

Kurt Masur

What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.

Kurt Masur

You know as I started as a shy young conductor, I always wanted to cooperate. To build up the musicians. To help them to be better than without a conductor. And sometimes young talented musicians have to be encouraged.

Kumail Nanjiani

I was extremely shy and had a terrible fear of public speaking. But I had fallen in love with stand-up.

Marian Keyes

I'm quite introverted but I'm not shy.

Nicholas Sparks

I have seldom been described as shy.

Marion Cotillard

I was shy. I was more than shy.

Harry Shum, Jr.

I'm actually really shy.

George Hamilton

Basically, I'm a shy human being. Very introverted.

Ken Stott

The Scottish are not shy when it comes to expressing themselves.

Jay McInerney

There aren't many shy writers left.

Candice Swanepoel

I don't know if it is obvious, but I am extremely shy.