555 Shy Quotes for You to Enjoy

As actors, we don't shy away from saying, 'I wanted to be an actor because I wanted to meet girls.' Directors cannot say the same thing. Gael Garcia Bernal

Saying Girl Same Thing Meet Say Directors Because Same Wanted Cannot Actor Away Thing Shy

My good ideas are shy. But if they see that I treat the stupid ideas with respect, they come forward. Gail Carson Levine

Good Respect Treat Stupid Good Ideas See Come Ideas Forward Shy

Enjoy the pressure. Enjoy the stress. Enjoy being uncomfortable. And don't shy away from it, embrace it. Gary Woodland

Stress Pressure Enjoy Embrace Uncomfortable Being Away Shy

While I'm really proactive when it comes to managing my projects, I am a shy person. Gauri Khan

Projects Am Person Proactive Managing While Really Shy Shy Person

I'm a realist and I'm not going to shy away from being knocked out. George Groves

Out Knocked Going Being Realist Away Shy

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

Human Being Introverted Very Human Being Shy Basically

My brother, whom I adored, typed out a children's book illustrated by himself... at the age of 14. My sister, with whom I always shared a double bed, had that effortless superiority of someone six years older and anxious to show it. But we were each as shy as voles. It seemed safer to keep to each other's company. Geraldine McCaughrean

Age Book Sister Older Other Typed Out Brother Seemed Someone Superiority Adored Had Shared Himself Safer Always Bed Were Years Effortless Anxious Six Children Double Show Company Each Keep Whom Illustrated Shy

I'm actually a very shy person, which is why I always chose to be in the kitchen. You can make people happy and entertain them, without really being there. You can make a very short appearance and then say, 'I've got something on the stove, gotta go!' Giada De Laurentiis

You Happy People Stove Say Entertain Something Kitchen Make Without Always Got Gotta Go Very Person Short Being Which Them Then Really Being There Appearance Chose Why Actually Shy Shy Person

I can lack communication with people. I shy away from everybody. I always want to be alone. Gilbert Arenas

Alone Communication People Everybody Always Lack Want Away Shy

I can interact with anybody, but I'm shy. Gilbert Arenas

Anybody Interact Shy

My first job had me miscast as a bubbly shopgirl; I was pathologically shy and, thus, tended to replace human speech with excessive head gestures. It was like being waited on by Harpo Marx. Gillian Flynn

Me Job First Marx Excessive Had Head Thus Like First Job Waited Replace Gestures Human Being Shy Speech

I cannot shy away from controversy. I don't know if it's my Irish blood, but I love it. Gina McCarthy

Love Know Blood Irish Controversy Cannot Away Shy

I used to shy away from publicity so as not to let it get in the way of the work. But it's part of the job. The tabloids are a whole other arena. If fame happens, it happens. I just want to maintain focus. Giovanni Ribisi

Work Job Focus Other Way Tabloids Arena Part Maintain Fame Get Just Want Happens Used Whole Publicity Away Shy

When the attention is on me, off-camera, I get uncomfortable - sort of shy and at a loss for words, as you can probably tell? Guillermo Diaz

Me You Words Tell Uncomfortable Attention Sort Loss Get Shy

People tend to shy away from rotation with resistance because they think they're going to get hurt. Like, 'If I move in that motion with that weight, I'm going to pull my back.' But you're not. Gunnar Peterson

You Hurt People Think Back Tend Weight Like Because Motion Get Going Move Rotation Away Resistance Shy Pull

Too many people feel that where you start out dictates where you should end up. I was on welfare and just shy of 19 when my first daughter was born, but I was encouraged to take advantage of my ability and drive and remained in school. Gwen Moore

You People School Welfare Too Many People Daughter Drive Take Advantage First Too Out Ability Born Remained Take Advantage Feel Encouraged End Up Dictates Just Where Should Many Start Shy

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them. H. L. Mencken

People Meet Bad Detest Never Simply Sort Because Am Go Lecture Lectures Want Them Speaker Who Shy

I was 26 when I went to my first acting class. I'm naturally quite shy. I'm a quite private person. There's this really strange acting class in New York called Black Nexxus. For someone who's slightly shy or self-conscious, it's the most frightening thing you can do. Hannah Ware

You Class Strange Black First Slightly Someone Self-Conscious New Most Private Private Person Frightening Person York Quite New York Really Acting Acting Class Naturally Thing Shy

I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature when I'm absolutely not like that at all. I think I'm much more outgoing and exuberant than my image. Helena Bonham Carter

Me Change Struggle People Perception Think Exuberant Outgoing Perceptions More Absolutely Absolutely Not Aristocratic Retiring Like Very Than Grew Frustrated Much Inhibited Creature Image Shy

Shy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen. Henry Taylor

Character Men Fall Liable Others Parasites More Proud Than Hands Any Which Formed Low Choose Chosen Creatures Shy

It was like that for the first six months after 'E.T.' was in cinemas. I'd go out and get mobbed. I was a shy kid, and being approached by adults all the time just freaked me out. Henry Thomas

Time Me First Cinemas Months Kid Out Freaked Adult Like Go Get Six Just Being After Shy

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

Life People Too Television Would Would-Be Forces Than Larger Shy

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