I always find that I'm less sarcastic in France and maybe I'm a bit more shy and a bit more reserved, even more polite. My voice tends to go up quite a lot. I'd love to speak more languages just to discover who I become in a different language.
I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
Being an actress, I find myself people-watching and I can be quite shy.
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.
I don't think meeting people that I've done pictures of spoils it at all because I like the really human sides of people. To meet them and see that they're complicated and weird or shy or any of those things sort of makes it even better - to know that they can rise above that and make something great.
A gift of flowers to a woman implies that she is as deliciously desirable as the blossoms themselves; but there may be another and hidden message, contained in the old-fashioned phrases like 'shy as a violet, 'clinging vine,' not originally conceived as pejoratives, that tells more of the truth - which is that flowers are also emblems of feminine submission.
I kind of shy away from that idea of being an actress because it seems to me to be such a cliché. Also, if you want to be a serious actress, then it's quite difficult to make that transition without being the blond bimbo in the opening credits. Maybe I'm being idealistic about acting and the idea that they would hire people purely based on their talent and not on their looks. But I don't know if I would be a very talented actress anyway.
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.
Everybody wants to be somebody fancy. Even if they're shy.
They might be kittens," she said hopefully. "They're stalking us." "They might be shy." "I don't think it's kittens, Valkyrie." "Puppies, then?
When I became a Sigma Chi it was great, because they were the pople I enjoyed being with and I was very proud of the association. It was kind of an instant confidence builder for me--that what I considered the best fraternity on campus had actually wanted me. And I had always been very shy and without a lot of confidence. So it was a really good social experience and for me it was also a social maturation. It was a great benefit.
Donald Trump appalls me. I won't be shy about that.
I am a very shy, introverted guy.
I never thought I actually could be an actor. I was always pretty shy and quiet.
Shyness displays itself differently in me. I think it's more an awkwardness.
Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.
I was always shy and had a huge fear of being onstage.
I'm always shy and timid when I write in front of people.
And I was very shy as a kid; if you sang me 'Happy Birthday,' I would cry. Quite shy. So the idea of being an actor, much less a model, was just out of this world.
When we are eager to be shy and humble about our accomplishments, we lose confidence in our abilities.
The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because it's boring.
I was a shy, quiet kid. I was happiest playing by myself with my toys, rather than hanging around people.
I'm not much into anything too flashy.
We are ashamed at the sight of a monkey--somehow as we are shy of poor relations.
Although I was a shy child, I was also a bit flamboyant.
