Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Agnes Varda

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

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.

Caroline Kennedy

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

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.

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.

Ang Lee

I was very quiet, very shy and docile.

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.

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.

Dwayne Hickman

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

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.

Ann Patchett

One must not be shy where language is concerned.

Rita Rudner

I don't like when there's too much conversation because I'm shy and it makes me uncomfortable.

Riley Keough

I'm kind of shy and quiet. But I'm only shy in my personal life. If I'm working, somehow I'm not and it goes away.

Sophia Loren

I'm a very shy person and I never tried to do theater.

Steve Martin

introductions are hard to come by when your natural state is shyness

Ruth Wilson

I've always been quite shy. Very confident but very shy.

Susan Cain

Though shyness per se was unacceptable, reserve was a mark of good breeding.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I've always been quiet and kind of shy. I'm sociable, but I would probably migrate to a corner.

Sigourney Weaver

I used to be terribly shy, so I was either shy or over the top, and I always had a difficult time.

Tobey Maguire

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.

Neil Gaiman

He was painfully shy, which, as is often the manner of the painfully shy, he overcompensated for by being too loud at the wrong times.

Tessanne Chin

Off stage, Im very quiet and very reserved and kind of shy.

Philip Zimbardo

I started studying shyness in adults in 1972. Shyness operates at so many different levels. Out of that research came the Stanford shyness clinic in 1977.

John Vanbrugh

When debtors once have borrowed all we have to lend, they are very apt to grow shy of their creditors' company.

Nick Carter

I can be shy when I talk to women. I'm a shy dude.

Nicholson Baker

I’ve always thought of myself as shy,