Akshaye Khanna Quotes

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

I'm not such a public person.

I think I was very shy and introverted when I was younger, and yet, when I got in front of the camera or went out on the town, I was able to go out half-naked and do anything.

I'm not an introvert. I'm media shy.

It doesn't suit me as a person to be put on public display.

I'm an introvert and a shy person.

I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.

I'm a shy person. I don't know if it's in my DNA to share with the world.

I'm actually pretty shy in real life. But I guess in front of the camera, I focus.

I'm not shy, exactly, but I am private. I don't like to talk about myself. I had to learn - I was interviewed for print, radio and even TV.

People probably thought I was scary, but I was just uncomfortable with attention and tended to be a little closed off, except with friends. I learned to embrace the attention.

I was quite creative at school, and was also interested in fashion, but I was shy - I'm still not the loudest of people, believe it or not.

I don't like to talk about myself that much.

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.

It was an interesting process trying to get Bob to talk about the film because he's such a shy person. He generally likes to talk when he really knows he has something to say.

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.

Australians are a fantastic bunch of people but the attention can be overwhelming for someone like me.

It's true, I used to be so shy. I used to never talk, just sit back and do my thing. I was never bullied, though, and it was never like it was something that needed to be 'fixed', like being shy is a bad thing.

I don't like to talk about myself.

I am happiest in public, working in my world. Then I can be the star. That I can do. When I am not working, I am more guarded, set apart. It's not my life, that. I like interactions, but interaction that is not forced.

Most people don't think of actors and people like us that are performers and out in the world as introverts, but I like to know I can trust someone first.

Not only am I a shy person, I take a little while to say what I mean, especially in a social situation, and usually those move too fast for me to say anything at all.

There's a social element of me that's pretty reserved. High school was when I was starting to come out of my shell because of the theater community.

I don't use my voice a lot in public.