Famous Quotes & Sayings

I did have my struggles, and I'm not going to shy away from that. But as the year progressed, I got more comfortable.

Carine Roitfeld

Monsier Saint Laurent was pathologically shy, and he made the Saint Laurent woman in his own image. Like her, I am shy. And to protect myself, I adopted something of an androgynous look, just as his women did.

A. J. Liebling

I used to be shy about ordering a steak after I had eaten a steak sandwich, but I got used to it.

Colbie Caillat

I was always shy and had a huge fear of being onstage.

Dorothy Allison

I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed in the same direction everybody else's was. And that life was going to be very, very complicated. And that I could either be provocative and declamatory, or shy, retiring and scared.

Don Rickles

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

Ann Patchett

One must not be shy where language is concerned.

Andrew Clements

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.

Ana Beatriz Barros

Americans are shy about the body. I have to remember that when I go there.

Amy Weber

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

Kate Micucci

I'm really shy - I don't do karaoke.

Beyonce Knowles

I was so shy and when my sister was born I found it hard. I was really strange and kind of too quiet.

Diana Taurasi

I'm not afraid of anyone. I'm not shy about anything. Not even my big nose.

Derek Jeter

I like to dance and sing when there's no one around, but, if I'm out, I'm really shy about it. So it takes a lot to get me going, but I enjoy being around music.

Alan Moore

I'm not a very shy person. I'm just somebody who's got a lot of work and who doesn't like to parade himself in new celebrity contexts.

Al Pacino

I'm so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.

Caroline Kennedy

I'm not as shy as everybody makes me out to be.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

Before I started touring, I worked with someone to help me, even physically, because I was so shy. And you can't be shy going onstage. So I had to push myself in a direction that wasn't myself.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I'm a very shy person towards my intimacy and private life.

Agnes Varda

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

Alison Goldfrapp

I think a lot of singers are shy people. I suppose singing on stage is not like talking; you are not as exposed.

Ang Lee

I was very quiet, very shy and docile.

Dwayne Hickman

I was just standing around and suddenly I was cast as an extra. I hated it because I was so shy.

If you're weak and shy and submissive, get over it.

Neil Gaiman

He was painfully shy, which, as is often the manner of the painfully shy, he overcompensated for by being too loud at the wrong times.

Nick Carter

I can be shy when I talk to women. I'm a shy dude.

Tobey Maguire

If I wanted to go be social I would. I don't have any fear of that. I don't feel like I'm a shy person at all.

Tessanne Chin

Off stage, Im very quiet and very reserved and kind of shy.

Philip Zimbardo

I started studying shyness in adults in 1972. Shyness operates at so many different levels. Out of that research came the Stanford shyness clinic in 1977.

John Vanbrugh

When debtors once have borrowed all we have to lend, they are very apt to grow shy of their creditors' company.

Nicholson Baker

I’ve always thought of myself as shy,

My first serious project was photographing badgers - very, very difficult as they are shy and nocturnal.

Ruth Wilson

I've always been quite shy. Very confident but very shy.