Quotes for All
There is something to the fact that when you’re on stage or when you’re playing someone else, you’re able to transmute all the things inside you that maybe get a bit blocked by the wall of shyness, or the wall of anxiety, or [by] overthinking. They sort of fall away in that moment and channeled … Read more
Onstage it was always comfortable for me because that’s where I felt at home. Offstage it was a different situation. I was still shy offstage and unfortunately, my shyness and my inability to communicate and really have great conversations or be part of the gang – in inverted commas – led me to the drug … Read more
I used to think that drinking would help my shyness, but all it did was exaggerate all the negative qualities. Elizabeth Taylor
Among the wealthy, generosity is often merely a kind of shyness. Friedrich Nietzsche
All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The teacher manages to get along still with the cumbersome algebraic analysis, in spite of its difficulties and imperfections, and avoids the smooth infinitesimal calculus, although the eighteenth century shyness toward it had long lost all point. Felix Klein
Shyness is I-ness. Shyness is really wondering if you have other people’s approval. Dorothy Sarnoff
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. Dorothy Hamill
I’m very shy so I became very outgoing to protect my shyness. Don Rickles
Many people are shy when it comes to getting out on a dance floor. Dancing is an activity that… reveals your inner self, whether you like it, or know it, or not. It is hard to fake it on a dance floor. Dirk Benedict