Shy Quotes

I think - I think I've always been kind of - I used to think of myself as a piece of rubber when I was a kid because I was kind of very shy and very - very emotional about things, but I kind of would bounce back.
Lynn Redgrave

Emotional, Used, Kid

I'm not shy. I'm modest, but I'm very outgoing.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Modest, Outgoing

I didn't start singing with my eyes open until I was 19 - that's how shy I was!
Jennifer Hudson

Eyes, Start, Until

I used to be very shy. When I first started, I had to go to a casting, and I had to go in a bikini. I thought I was too skinny. But I went in and got the job! And that's how I started.
Adriana Lima

Job, Thought, Used

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.
Kristi Yamaguchi

Music, Freedom, Emotional

No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others.
Tommy Lee Jones

Good, Others, Away

I'm not shy about wearing a lot of makeup! But when I don't have to be done up, I just use a bit of concealer and maybe some lip balm.
Khloe Kardashian

Done, Maybe, Bit

Perhaps my favourite story is 'Le Passe-Muraille' by Marcel Ayme. It's about a guy who wakes up with a weird faculty that means he can walk through walls. He's a very shy clerk, and he uses it to get revenge, or vent his frustration.
Michel Gondry

Revenge, Through, Means

I keep reading that I'm cold. But I'm not, I'm shy. And I play a lot of women of fire and sexuality like an animal - so I'm cold on one side and fiery on the other.
Emmanuelle Beart

Women, Fire, Play

I was terribly shy when I was growing up, I really wasn't confident with other people and I think I was always afraid of up or not being this very cool, amazing person that I wanted to be.
Emily Mortimer

Amazing, Cool, Person

I'd been shy since childhood, constantly full of self-doubt. And as an actor, I'd been so scared of failing that I made my career - and myself - a big joke.
Emily Mortimer

Career, Made, Big

I'm still shy - I'm no good at my children's parent-teacher conferences, and I'm slowly learning how to ask for what I want. But I now know that I have a reserve of courage to draw upon when I really need it. There's nothing that I'm too scared to have a go at.
Emily Mortimer

Good, Courage, Learning

Like a typical Gemini I'm changeable, I can be two different types of people. I can be very outgoing, but sometimes very shy.
Denise Van Outen

Different, Two, Sometimes

You know I was a shy guy and people didn't know that and still don't know it today. I'm sure basketball brought my shyness out because of the fact that you have to do interviews, and that people are always talking to you in terms of the fans and everything.
Magic Johnson

Today, Everything, Basketball

Interestingly, the actress who, in her own persona, may be gentle, shy, and socially awkward, someone whose hand trembles when pouring a cup of tea for a visiting friend, can convincingly portray an elegant, cruel aristocrat tossing off malicious epigrams in an eighteenth-century chocolate house.
Wallace Shawn

Someone, Friend, May

I'm very private in person. I'm very sensitive and shy with men individually. But when I'm talking, maybe there's this other channel or this other side and other way of working in my mind, and I convert and become carefree.
Bai Ling

Men, Mind, Person

I am a very shy, introverted guy.
Dave Pelzer

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

Music, Person, Seen

I'm too shy for personal appearances, and I've found out that anytime I talk about my writing, I can't do any writing for many weeks afterward.
Anne Tyler

Writing, Talk, Personal

When sex is necessary for the plot of a book, or a character development, then I don't shy away from it. Why should I?
Laurell K. Hamilton

Character, Sex, Book

I've always been a little shy about taking my clothes off, but I don't worry about it any more.
Kylie Minogue

Worry, Off, Taking

I'm shy in my personal life.
Ryan Seacrest

I can feel very brave through all the action scenes in front of the people who are on the set, but when a girl comes close to me my face turns red because I'm so shy.
Jet Li

Girl, Through, Brave

I was a shy kid with a broom handle that I pretended was a microphone.
Patti LaBelle

Kid, Handle, Microphone

I'm very shy in a crowd.
Patti LaBelle

Television forces people to be larger than life. I would be too shy.
Heston Blumenthal

Life, Television, Forces

The men I find myself attracted to are the ones who don't say anything and are quite shy.
Katie Price

Men, Find, Quite

I love acting because it's a bit of an escape. It gives you the ability to reinvent yourself. They say that acting is the shy man's revenge.
Hayden Christensen

Love, Yourself, Revenge

Maybe it has something to do with turning 30. I don't feel as shy or nervous or self-conscious. I have more confidence that I can handle what life brings me. I don't feel scared to have an idea and express it.
Michelle Williams

Life, Confidence, Idea

I found myself getting more publicly shy when the gala events and big crowds started. Some people embrace it. To me, it's not worth enough to risk my private life being public.
Matt Damon

Life, Enough, Big

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