Shyness Quotations

For me, I had to overcome shyness to be an actor. But as a director, you lose your subjectivity, your self-consciousness. And instead of just your role, it's the life of the whole play that becomes a reflection of you.

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.

There is a shyness about me, and I really need to get out more.

Shyness is just egoism out of its depth.

Shyness displays itself differently in me. I think it's more an awkwardness.

What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.

I really started dreaming... and broke out of my shyness when I got to Howard University. My first acting class was an Intro to Acting class with Professor Bay, who really broke me out of my shell, encouraged me to follow my dreams and make them a reality.

Shyness is inherently uncomfortable; introversion is not. The traits do overlap, though psychologists debate to what degree.

We need to do teacher training to educate them about what temperament means. Shyness is painful and you want to help a child with shyness - but the underlying temperament of being a careful, sensitive person is to be honoured, valued and respected.

And like the old stereotype, I overcame my shyness by making my friends laugh.

I'm very shy so I became very outgoing to protect my shyness.

Harold, of course, is a person who doesn't express himself as clearly as you might like. He's sort of vague from time to time about how he feels about things. There's a shyness to him in private meetings when it comes to telling you exactly what he thinks of you, your idea and your plans.

I am, by nature, a fairly shy person, and one of the things I had to learn was, when you're on a popular show and people feel they know you, what used to pass for shyness can be perceived as rude. I do feel more vulnerable, but people are always nice. Nobody ever comes up and throws food on me and says the show is crap.

His shyness is hurting him. He is pulling out of public appearances lately and it's been widely noticed. He's been pulling back when he should be campaigning.

I think Sweden is known for people being a bit more quiet than other cultures, and I guess it's a mixture: shyness and leaving room for other people to talk. Of course, when people get drunk, all of that disappears.

I suppose the part nearest me is Laura Reynolds in Tea and Sympathy. Of course playright Bob Anderson didn't know that, but he wrote Laura Reynolds and Laura Reynolds happened to be me. It was the coming together of a part and an actress - the same attitude to life, a certain shyness in life, a deep compassion for people who are being persecuted for anything.

Shyness is a curious thing, because, like quicksand, it can strike people at any time, and also, like quicksand, it usually makes its victims look down.

I do not say what I feel, and people often take that for shyness, even kindness.

The bashful are always aggressive at heart.

I'm concerned with the lost, the lonely, the shy. I think shyness is in some ways more widespread now than formerly. I used to be shy myself. Of course, you can't be me now and remain shy, but I remember very well what it felt like.

Not unexpectedly, pre-trial rhetoric has amounted to bullying and posturing in the media's eye, ... prominent reputation includes no apparent lack of shyness as far as communicating with the media and outside observers is concerned.

In the tradition of psychology, what the word shyness basically refers to is if someone is worried about how he or she appears to other people.

This helps (the students) in getting over their shyness of talking to adults and (shows them) how they need to open up.

Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

I have seldom been described as shy.

Shyness is just egotism out of its depth.

I'd let my golden chances pass me by.

A deal of the world's sound happiness is lost through Shyness.

Be not so severe as to cause shyness, nor so clement as to encourage boldness.

introductions are hard to come by when your natural state is shyness

Shyness is nice, but shyness can stop you from doing all the things in life that you'd like to.

I am the son and the heir of a shyness that is criminally vulgar.

I genuinely enjoy talking one-to-one. I have no shyness about that.

Shyness is the fear of social disapproval or humiliation, while introversion is a preference for environments that are not overstimulating. Shyness is inherently painful; introversion is not.

Though shyness per se was unacceptable, reserve was a mark of good breeding.

Among the wealthy, generosity is often merely a kind of shyness.

A shy failure is nobler than an immodest success.

For it is not simply because of mere sluggishness alone that human relationships repeat themselves from case to case in such unspeakable monotonous and unrefreshed ways; there is also a certain shyness for unforseeable experiences generally because one doesn't feel up for them. But only for the one that is on the lookout for everything, who excludes nothing, not even the most enigmatic, will the relationship to another become something alive and to speak to the whole potential of one's existence.

My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.

I must say that, beyond occasionally exposing me to laughter, my constitutional shyness has been no dis-advantage whatever. In fact I can see that, on the contrary, it has been all to my advantage.

It is only through timidity that states are lost.