Leon Bridges Quotes

From the core, I'm a shy person, but when I'm on stage, I know how to put it aside. Of course, I'm not perfect, but I've definitely grown as far as being comfortable on stage.

I was terribly shy and never said anything in class. Then I started getting into school plays. When you've got words to say, you've got a sort of armour.

I was extremely shy. I am still shy, but I won't show it on stage.

It took me a long time to be alright with smiling onstage.

Dance has definitely made me a better role model.When I'm performing, I'm always thinking about my face and my look. I used to have a much harder time with it.

I'm still a shy person. I've learned to put that aside on certain occasions. I have to. It's part of my job.

For many years, I didn't even like the idea of doing a one-person play. Public speaking got me past that. I've always been good at public speaking, but I never really enjoyed it. Then I started to really enjoy it, and that's made all the difference.

I can sing in front of people. I can go on a TV show, live, and not feel like I'm going to throw up.

For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with.

In high school, I was too shy to perform. It's one thing to get laughs from your family, to be funny at parties and in class. It's another thing to get up on the stage.

There is a shy side to me that evaporates when I play on stage, and I like that. I think it's another facet of my character, and I need to do that.

I was a very shy kid. Very shy. But I started doing theatre when I was six years old, and that really changed something. My more playful side came out of me.

I had big problems with stage fright in the past. I think, slowly, as I've gotten better at it, I've started to enjoy it. It's made me a more confident person in my normal life. I can open up and be myself in situations that used to be abject terror.

I'm a very shy person and find it difficult to ask for work even if I know somebody for ages.

I was very shy, but when I performed, I felt like I was in my own little world. I became more confident. Dancing taught me discipline and to feel comfortable in my own skin.

If I could borrow anything from Miley, it would be her stage confidence. For me, that's just going to come with time.

I was painfully shy, so my aunt suggested to my mum that me and my brother go to Stage 84, a performing arts school in Yorkshire. I've probably romanticised it in my head, but I seem to remember that in the space of an hour's drama workshop, I was transformed. I went in really shy, and I came out full of confidence.

The truth of the matter is that I used to be much more - as it were - shy. Now I don't care!

I've never really been a confident person, except from a musical standpoint. I had to push myself early on, but it got easier with each gig.

I'm hideously shy as myself, but on stage I can run around naked and bite the heads off fish.

I was shy and didn't believe in myself, and I only bloomed when I was in theater during rehearsal. And that's how my family found out that that's where I needed to be, because that's where I felt the most comfortable.

I'm a relatively shy person, but I love being challenged and putting myself in positions that are scary.

I was shy when I was a kid, I was very shy, but now I think I've improved a lot. I can speak OK with the media and with the people. My English is still bad but I feel a little bit better now than before.

My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

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