Shy Quotes - Page 6

• You bet I'm shy. I'm a shyster lawyer.

  Groucho Marx

  Lawyer

  Monkey Business (motion picture) (1931). Screenplay by Will B. Johnstone and S. J. Perelman.

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• There's times when I'm really shy, so these roles that I get to play, they're how I would love to really be. And that's why I love doing stand-up, because it gives me the freedom to say what I really want to say. I think that's why it's my favorite thing to do.

  Wanda Sykes

  Thinking, Play, Giving

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Sensitive, shy-of course I was. The fun of acting is to become someone else.

  Rita Hayworth

  Fun, Acting, Sensitive

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• I'm a shy, nervous person, and I don't like teaching with "terms." I didn't teach them, like, "This is first person, this is second person, this is foreshadowing," or whatever, so no one probably felt like they were learning anything. But I feel like teaching in that way reduces the concept to a term.

  Tao Lin

  Teaching, Way, Firsts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I thought, can you think of any really good reason not to do it? Except that, oh, I'm so shy, or oh, my private life, or oh, are they going to find out how boring I am? You know? And that was the only reason now, in a sense, not to do television. Because it certainly is a method of expression, which has to be accepted as these things come along.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Thinking, Expression, Television

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• I've always been very shy and sheltered; I think it was a good way of starting to communicate with people. I was taught as a child never to talk about myself, never to talk about my emotions. Of course, now I talk about myself constantly. Now I have to take reverse est.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Children, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I guess because theater's so ephemeral and it's gone. You make this nightly contract with the audience and you redraw that contract for the next night, whereas film and television, it's forever. I suppose it's always about adopting personas, never about being yourself. I think they call it a "shy man's revenge."

  Cillian Murphy

  Being Yourself, Revenge, Night

  "The Shy Man’s Revenge". Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 17, 2014.

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• I don't drive an Escalade; I've never lived on a mansion; I live in a townhouse. Even with my internet business, when I was making just shy of a million and a half a year, I lived in the same house.

  Romany Malco

  Years, House, Half

  "Romany Malco Chats w/ S&A About “Think Like A Man,” Picking Projects, Black Cinema & More!". Interview with Vanessa Martinez, www.indiewire.com. May 7, 2012.

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• I never wore a stich of make-up until I got to America. I lived in a world of fantasy it was made up of imaginary friends and make believe lovers. I was also teased a lot for being different because I was shy, solitary, distant and melancholic.

  Pamela Anderson

  Believe, America, Being Different

  Interview with Savi Kuruppu, cargocollective.com.

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• [My half-sister] Ella and I always were much closer as basic types; we're dominant people, and [my other half-sister] Mary has always been mild and quiet, almost shy.

  Malcolm X

  People, Half, Quiet

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• If you feel strongly about someone, go up to them. Pursue what you want in life. Why be shy about something like that?

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Want, Feels, Pursue

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• I'm somewhat shy about the brutal facts of being a carnivore. I don't like meat to look like animals. I prefer it in the form of sausages, hamburger and meat loaf, far removed from the living thing.

  John Updike

  Animal, Meat, Looks

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• Writing a poem ... is a kind of possible love affair between something like the heart (that courageous but also shy factory of emotion) and the learned skills of the conscious mind.

  Mary Oliver

  Writing, Heart, Skills

  Mary Oliver (1994). “A Poetry Handbook”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There aren't many shy writers left.

  Jay McInerney

  Left

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• I always had a sketchbook with me when I was young. I was hiding behind it, basically, hiding behind drawing because I couldn't cope with people in real life; I was very shy and very nervous around people.

  Robert Crumb

  Real, Drawing, People

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• Have I ever been the shy retiring type? Never. Not since the day I was born.

  John Barrowman

  Born, Type, Retiring

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• To be honest, I was kind of a shy kid growing up.

  Dave Franco

  Growing Up, Kids, Honest

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One thing I think celebrities shy away from is exposing the reality that we're all the same. Somebody's not more important because they have a Bentley or a big house or a famous boyfriend or plastic surgery - we're all the same.

  Aubrey O'Day

  Thinking, Reality, House

  "Aubrey O’Day: ‘Last night I was stolen by a hawk’". PopWrap interview, pagesix.com. October 22, 2009.

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• I'm a bit shy, I suppose, and a bit lazy.

  Joan Collins

  Lazy, Bits

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• My mom didn't ever think I would take to acting because I was a very shy, very reserved kind of child. But obviously, something changed!

  Abigail Breslin

  Mom, Children, Thinking

  "Tribeca Interview: Abigail Breslin and Alessandro Nivola in Janie Jones : Rock God Meets Rock Child". Interview with Cynthia Ellis, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2011.

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• I’m very shy, I feel very awkward.

  Jessica Chastain

  Awkward, Feels

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As a child, I was very shy. Painfully, excruciatingly shy. I hid a lot in my room. I was so terrified to read out loud in school that I had to have my mother ask my reading teacher not to call on me in class.

  Kim Basinger

  Mother, Teacher, Children

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• It's wrong for women to be constantly shy and embarrassed about their bodies. There are so many images of unattainable beauty that are so destructive. It's important to show how your body really is. As the cliche has it, beauty comes from within.

  Alex Kingston

  Important, Body, Unattainable

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• When I was a kid, I had a couple of really good friends, like some really good best friends, but I was really shy other than that.

  Meg Cabot

  Couple, Kids, Good Friend

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• Ordinary people shy away form negative situations, just as they do with failure. They do their best to avoid trouble. What great people do is the opposite. They are their best in these situations. They turn personal tragedy or misfortune - really anything, everything - to their advantage.

  Ryan Holiday

  Opposites, People, Tragedy

  Ryan Holiday (2014). “The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph”, p.74, Penguin

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