Being Shy Quotes:

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

- Agnes Varda

source: Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

topic: Shy, Being Shy, Educated

My feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world.

- Dejan Stojanovic

source: "Forgotten Home". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic,

topic: Feelings, Shy, World, Wording, Being Shy

I've gotten better at not making people feel uncomfortable with my shyness.

- Clea DuVall

topic: People, Shy, Uncomfortable, Being Shy

The fact of the matter is that most actors are shy people.

- Roger Moore

topic: People, Shy, Actors, Being Shy, Shy Girl

I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.

- Audrey Hepburn

topic: Monday, Morning, Night, Monday Morning, Introverted

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

topic: Shy, Firsts, Language, Being Shy, Thrust

A shy failure is nobler than an immodest success.

- Khalil Gibran

source: Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

topic: Inspirational, Failure, Shy, Being Shy

I like parties, but I'm shy, and I often find myself standing around, feeling awkward.

- Michael Bergin

topic: Party, Awkward, Feelings, Being Shy, Shy Girl

Do people ever get over being shy? I think it’s with you for life-like the color of your eyes.

- Marilyn Monroe

topic: Eye, Thinking, Color, Being Shy

I was always very shy but as I get older I think, What am I being shy for? You just grow weary of your own hang-ups.

- Steve Martin

topic: Thinking, Shy, Grows, Being Shy

The good thing about being shy though as a child is that you become very observant because you're not really actively participating. You're sitting back watching everyone. I think that's really helped me as an actress because I'm good at observing people and then copying them for comic effect.

- Rebel Wilson

source: Source: www.moviesonline.ca

topic: Being Shy

When you have something in life that you want to accomplish greatly, you have to be willing to give up your happiness…I’ve lost all my sensitivity as far as being embarrassed, being shy, you just have to lose that.

- Mike Tyson

topic: Motivation, Fear, Giving Up, Being Shy

Cowards can't be faulted for being shy. They can't be held responsible for anything.

- Koushun Takami

topic: Coward, Shy, Responsible, Being Shy

That's what being shy feels like. Like my skin is too thin, the light too bright. Like the best place I could possibly be is in a tunnel far under the cool, dark earth. Someone asks me a question and I stare at them, empty-faced, my brain jammed up with how hard I'm trying to find something interesting to say. And in the end, all I can do is nod or shrug, because the light of their eyes looking at me, waiting for me, is just too much to take. And then it's over and there's one more person in the world who thinks I'm a complete and total waste of space.

- Carol Rifka Brunt

topic: Eye, Dark, Thinking, Waste Of Space, Eyes Looking

People have a hard time believing that, but not having a father around, being shy, I just never participated in sports much.

- Chuck Norris

topic: Sports, Father, Believe, Being Shy

You're either a rationalist, or you're not. And the good news is a recent poll found 20% of adults under 30 say they are rationalists, and have figured out that Santa Claus and Jesus are really the same guy. Now, 20% is hardly a majority. But it's a bigger minority than blacks, jews, homosexuals, NRA members, teachers, or seniors... and it's certainly enough to stop being shy about expressing the opinion that we're not the crazy ones!

- Bill Maher

topic: Senior, Teacher, Jesus, Nra, Being Shy

I think for a group that has a reputation for being shy and elusive, we're actually outspoken.

- Stevie Jackson

source: "Belle and Sebastian". Interview with Gretta Cohn, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2006.

topic: Thinking, Shy, Groups, Being Shy

In real life I'm very low-key. A wallflower. One of the reasons I went into comedy and acting was that I was sick of being shy.

- Jemaine Clement

source: "Jemaine Clement: 'I was in a public park replicating gay porn pics in my underpants'". Interview Killian Fox, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2010.

topic: Real, Keys, Sick, Low Key, Being Shy

I think if I were a college professor, no one would say I was uncomfortable about being shy because that might be expected. But I think because of people's stereotypes, they think of a football player as someone who is very outgoing and I'm not.

- Ricky Williams

topic: Football, Player, College, College Professors, Outgoing

It’s funny—when people call you “shy,” they usually smile. Like it’s cute, some funny little habit you’ll grow out of when you’re older, like the gaps in your grin when your baby teeth fall out. If they knew how it felt—really being shy, not just unsure at first—they wouldn’t smile. Not if they knew how the feeling knots up your stomach or makes your palms sweat or robs you of the ability to say anything that makes sense. It’s not cute at all.

- Claudia Gray

topic: Cute, Baby, Fall, Baby Teeth, Being Shy

I would never be popular. I didn't want to be; I liked being shy. I'd never be the smartest or the hottest or the happiest. By eighth grade you start to figure out your limits.

- Laurie Halse Anderson

topic: Shy, Want, Limits, Hottest, Eighth Grade

Misa: Hey, Light. Wanna come sleep with me tonight? Light: Wh-what are you talking about…? Misa: Ha ha ha! Just kidding! You're saving me for after we catch Kira, right? You don't have to be shy about it! L: Yes, Light. There's no need to be shy. Light: I'm not being shy! L: No need to be so serious either

- Tsugumi Ohba

topic: Sleep, Talking, Light, Kira, Death Note

I always just forced myself to do crazy things in public. In college I would push an overhead projector across campus with my pants just low enough to show my butt. Then my friend would incite the crowd to be like, 'Look at that idiot!' That's how I got over being shy.

- Will Ferrell

topic: Crazy, College, Shy, Overhead, Projectors