Quotes and Sayings About Shy

Don't go getting all shy on me now, Lana," he drawled, squeezing my sides with his hands
-- Abbi Glines

#Hands #Sides #Shy

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

#Jobs #Skinny #Shy

I'm so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
-- Al Pacino

#Sunglasses #Shy

My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
-- Al Pacino

#Shy #Firsts #Language

I've often said there's two kinds of actors. There's a more gregarious type and the shy type.
-- Al Pacino

#Two #Shy #Actors

I'm shy and can't for the life of me barge around and slap people on the back. I sit in a corner by myself and am tickled to death when someone comes over to talk to me
-- Alan Ladd

#People #Shy #Barges

I was painfully shy, and I had tremendous difficulty making friends. So, lacking friends, I watched other people. Watching is something all writers must do, and it was in junior high that I learned to do it.
-- Alex Flinn

#People #Making Friends #Shy

It's wrong for women to be constantly shy and embarrassed about their bodies. There are so many images of unattainable beauty that are so destructive. It's important to show how your body really is. As the cliche has it, beauty comes from within.
-- Alex Kingston

#Important #Shy #Body

I went to stage school with a neighbor to build confidence because I was quite shy.
-- Alexandra Roach

#School #Shy #Neighbor

I'm still a shy person. I've learned to put that aside on certain occasions. I have to. It's part of my job.
-- Alexis Bledel

#Jobs #Shy

I had not thought of violets of late, The wild, shy kind that springs beneath you feet In wistful April days.
-- Alice Dunbar Nelson

#Spring #Feet #Shy

I have never been shy about listening to the input of others and weighing it seriously.
-- Alice Sebold

#Listening #Shy #Input

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.
-- Alice Walker

#Long #Shy #Ugly

Are you staring at me because you've seen my doppelganger roaming the halls, playing kind of the cafeteria? Or because you need to borrow a pencil and you're too shy to ask?
-- Alyson Noel

#Needs #Shy #Roaming

If you see a shy person, ask them some questions like, 'Why are you so shy? Tell everyone, we're all listening.
-- Amy Sedaris

#Listening #Shy #Persons

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

#Shy #Persons #Stills

Americans are shy about the body. I have to remember that when I go there.
-- Ana Beatriz Barros

#Shy #Body #Remember

I'm quite shy, so I hate seeing my private life splashed over the papers.
-- Andrea Bocelli

#Hate #Shy #Paper

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.
-- Andrew Clements

#Shy #Attention #Able

When a shy person smiles, it’s like the sun coming out.
-- Anita Diament

#Sun #Shy #Coming Out

Shy” was the sympathetic interpretation she got from older people. “Snotty” was the interpretation she got from people her own age.
-- Ann Brashares

#People #Age #Shy

One must not be shy where language is concerned.
-- Ann Patchett

#Shy #Language #Concerned

I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings.
-- Anne Stevenson

#Friends #Art #Shy

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 #Shy #Appearance

Not that I was incapable of friendship. 'Don't be shy', the teachers coaxed. I was not shy, only extremely choosy. And Denise shone like a diamond. If you had to ask me to define paradise, I would have said a desert island which Denise could visit, on a boat.
-- Anneli Rufus

#Teacher #Islands #Shy

I've always found Mr. Disney to be somewhat of a shy person, a kid at heart
-- Annette Funicello

#Heart #Kids #Shy

As a young person, and I know it’s hard to believe that I was shy, but you could take your camera, and it would take you to places: it was like having a friend, like having someone to go out with and look at the world. I would do things with a camera I wouldn’t do normally if I was just by myself.
-- Annie Leibovitz

#Believe #Cameras #Shy

If you want to do something big in your life, you must remember that shyness is only the mind. If you think shy, you act shy. If you think confident you act confident. Therefore never let shyness conquer your mind.
-- Arfa Karim

#Thinking #Mind #Shy

I can be very shy...but when I'm around people I know, I can be extremely loud.
-- Avril Lavigne

#People #Shy #Loud

Yes, because when you're in love, you are shy.
-- Beatrice Wood

#Love You #Shy