Shy Quotes - page 15

Growing up, I was a very shy kid but I felt that being on stage or playing another character would somehow open me up. And I think it did. (Jesse Tyler Ferguson)
Me being a shy kid, very closed off, showing vulnerability in a character was sort of a safe space on stage. It's always been in my toolbox, there for me when I need it. View quote
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
My first acting experience was a non-speaking role as a robot. My costume was a cardboard box covered in tinfoil, but I was so shy I refused to go on stage. View quote
Jessica Raine
Mrs. Parks was a shy, soft spoken woman who was uncomfortable being revered as a symbol of the civil rights movement. She only hoped to inspire young people to achieve great things. View quote
Jim Costa
I was a very shy child. View quote
Jim Parsons
Even now I can't stand being recognized in the street. I just hate it when strangers come up and try to talk to me. I'm pathologically shy. View quote
Jimmy Nail
I was always much more shy. All I knew was that I loved to act. But I don't know about the other part of it. I'm not sure I had the chutzpah to go and prove yourself. View quote
Joan Allen
If you're wearing something I like, I will come over and ask where you got it from. I'm not shy! View quote
Joanne Froggatt
At one point in college I was so shy that I'd drop out of a class if asked to speak in front of other people. View quote
Joe Flanigan
I'm always shy when I meet people I admire so I wouldn't be able to say anything rather than, 'How do you do? Love you! Bye!' View quote
Jacki Weaver
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)
My life isn't that dramatic. My dad really loves me, he just can't talk on the phone. He's too crippled and shy, and that's almost harder. He's there and he loves me, and I try and try and try, it's just impossible to have a relationship. View quote
Joey Lauren Adams
The campaigns of Steve Forbes, Pat Buchanan, Ross Perot, and John McCain all outperformed expectations on their support from independent voters. They made no effort to shy away from ideology, but conveyed to voters that their policies were driven by principle, not party talking points. View quote
John H. Sununu
I'm not shy. I'm modest, but I'm very outgoing. View quote
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
I like getting up in front of an audience. It's fun when you go to a baseball game and the crowd is cheering you. I can't deny it. And it's very funny, too. Sometimes you're shy; you go somewhere and everyone's looking at you, so you feel a little self-conscious. View quote
Jon Lovitz
I'm actually much more shy and self-conscious than people's perception of me. View quote
Jonathan Ames
Although I am a public figure, I'm still a little shy. I don't think my own personality is important. I prefer to keep some small dosage of privacy. View quote
Joshua Lederberg
I remember in second grade, everybody in the class had to come up with adjectives for each other, and I got shy. In a way, I force myself to perform, because if I didn't, I'd stay home rolled up in a ball watching 'The Real Housewives of Orange County' all day. View quote
June Diane Raphael
It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought. View quote
James Douglas, Lord of Douglas
The funniest people I know were, not necessarily troubled, but had a harder time in school or were shy or picked on or something like that. I think that you rely on it. Well, I don't think I'm cute and no one wants to hang out with me - I'd better start trying to make people laugh. I think there's an element of that in there. View quote
Kaitlin Olson
It's true, I used to be so shy. I used to never talk, just sit back and do my thing. I was never bullied, though, and it was never like it was something that needed to be 'fixed', like being shy is a bad thing. (Kendall Jenner)
I'm pretty shy when I go home because I was pretty shy growing up, and I think I go back to that person. View quote
Kerry Condon
When I was young, I was very shy and quiet, because we moved all the time. My dad was in the Navy, so we moved every two years. View quote
Kimberly Willis Holt
I was quite creative at school, and was also interested in fashion, but I was shy - I'm still not the loudest of people, believe it or not. View quote
Kirsty Gallacher
At 6 years old, the ice became a place for me to express myself. Because I was so shy off the ice, it became my safe haven, with music and freedom and self-expression. That was my emotional outlet. View quote
Kristi Yamaguchi