Nivin Pauly Quotes

I'm not great... in large groups of people, but I'm not shy anymore.

I have always been a bit of an introvert. In fact, my dad used to force me to meet people so that my interpersonal skills improve. As an individual, I was happiest when left alone.

People think that I'm a really outgoing person because of how I am on stage. But I'm not. I'm really shy.

Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I'm not the most outgoing person.

As a kid, I was really shy. Technically I am still, but when I'm performing I want everybody to listen.

I'm not the person in person that I am on stage.

I always thought I was a little shy, especially compared to my brother and my sister, but I guess I was always the kid doing performances in the front room.

I actually find extroversion to be a really appealing personality style.

I wasn't always this introverted.

The stuff I do and say onstage I can do easily. As a performer, that comes easily. But being social offstage, it's not easy for me.

There is a shyness about me, and I really need to get out more.

People still make me nervous, but gradually over the years I've developed kind of like a public personality, so I can talk. I have my spiel, I have my stories.

I want to resume the life of a shy person.

I'm pretty good with not being afraid to just go up to people and introduce myself.

I'm not a real social person - I'm shy - and a lot of the business is just social.

In real life I'm very low-key. A wallflower. One of the reasons I went into comedy and acting was that I was sick of being shy.

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.

I'm shy, but not on a one-to-one basis. Over the years, I have become acclimatised to a bit of publicity.

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'm much less shy in conversation than I am on my own.

I'm not good at small talk. I'm really not. I'm not that great at any talk.

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

I don't think I'm particularly shy. I just don't like being front and center as myself.

I had this idea that being an introvert was a negative thing, that it had a negative connotation, and I really wanted, as a young person, to strive to be the life of the party and to be really outgoing and to have a million friends. And then I realized that an introvert isn't a negative.

In regard to performing, it couldn't be funnier that I ended up being an actor, because I'm really shy. Unless I'm really comfortable with a person.