Edwidge Danticat Quotes

Even though it's hard to believe, but people who know me really well know I'm shy. I have to go past that fear.

Lots of shy people dress a bit too much. It's just kind of an armour. People say the same thing about me.

Andy was an offbeat personality, shy and insecure. The whole reason for taking a camera with him wherever he went was because he was so shy. He'd break the ice by taking pictures.

I am a deeply awkward person; I am not cool.

When I meet people for the first time, I always put on my glasses because I feel like that's a little something extra between me and them. It's like the Laurence Dunbar poem "We Wear the Mask."

When I was a child, I was very shy, and there's still a part of me that's very shy.

I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.

When I was young I was very shy and that was my personality. I was a pretty sensitive kid and quite neurotic, filled with a lot of anxiety.

I am terribly shy, but of course no one believes me. Come to think of it, neither would I.

I’m very shy, I feel very awkward.

I was shy as a child. Now I'm not really shy any more, unless I'm with shy people. I find it contagious and I don't know what to say. But I don't think shyness is something one should feel apologetic about.

I am very shy - really shy - I even had a stutter as a kid, which I slowly got over, but I still regress into that shyness. So I don't like walking into a crowded restaurant by myself; I don't like going to a party by myself.

Believe it or not, I was a pretty shy youngster growing up.

Off stage, I'm very quiet and very reserved and kind of shy.

When I'm not doing the show, and the work has stopped, I walk into a restaurant and I'm shy; yet, when I'm in the show, when people come up with their phones and want to take my picture, I can handle it because it's almost like I'm wearing an armour.

I was shy at school.

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

So many people hide inside their clothes.

I was - I was very - I wasn't outgoing at all as a child.

When I am talking to people who I feel don't like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.

Clothing started as an armor for me. It was one of the ways that I protected myself from the world. It evolved into a form of creative expression.

I can be very shy. I really like to stay at home with my people because I'm really shy. My wife is as well; we're both really shy.

I was very shy and socially awkward.

I was possibly shy. I don't know why some people are shy and some aren't. Some people blush very easily.

I've always been quiet, for the most part, especially any time I've come into a new environment.