Quotes: Shyness

What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people.

I think I had a shyness about me, I think I discovered acting as a way to break out of that and as a way of belonging, a sense of being special.

Shyness is just egoism out of its depth.

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

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

What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.

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

You know what my greatest personal stumbling block is? My shyness.

I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near me and I didn’t have to talk to anybody because of my shyness. It was great. I was in my fantasy world.

In talking, shyness and timidity distort the very meaning of my words. I don’t pretend to know anybody well. People are like shadows to me and I am like a shadow.