Carolina Herrera Quotes

I was just painfully shy. I couldn't talk to anyone. Going up in front of class, I would have to mentally prepare myself to raise my hand.

When I was 17, I was so shy I could barely speak or introduce myself to anyone.

I'm shy. I am. I mean, if I get around, you know, in a room of a bunch of people especially I - you know, I don't know or - it takes me a while to warm up. I'm - and the real me, I'm not as witty as, you know, as the comic Wanda. The comic, she's had time to work on some things.

I used to go red when anybody spoke to me. It's awful because you absolutely cannot control it. If you are a child that blushes, or is shy, the one thing you want in the world is to be the child who comes in and says, 'Hi,' to everyone and goes up and makes friends.

It is strange: I love to be in front of the audience, but I have this opposite side that is afraid of meeting people, that doesn't want to talk. I feel it's like having a little hard stone inside me of problems, doubts, and shyness.

Some introverts are perfectly comfortable with public speaking; I'm not one of them.

At one point in college I was so shy that I'd drop out of a class if asked to speak in front of other people.

I get butterflies before I go out to say hello at a party.

I was very, very shy in public and school, and quite loud and brash at home.

I'm shy, but I'm not clinically shy. I don't have social anxiety disorder or anything like that. I more have a gentle shyness. Like, I have a little trouble mingling at parties.

The last thing in the world I should have done was go into the theater because was inordinately shy as a young man. I couldn't open my mouth. At a party, I was the one stuck up against the wall. I was embarrassed about talking. I felt that I couldn't talk well.

I get embarrassed a lot of times getting attention, but I like being onstage. Do you know what I mean? If I'm in a crowd of people and they're all looking at me, I will feel embarrassed. It's a strange dichotomy.

I'm not good at interacting with people and am terrified to get onstage, so I just go up there, freak out and, most of the time, pack up and go home immediately after.

What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.

I don't perform well in private. Socially, I mean. And I didn't as a child. Actors aren't necessarily outgoing, are they?

I get embarrassed by people. It's really awkward for me to have a chat with people who have been to see a gig.

It's kind of weird - I get shy when I'm around new people, still, even when I'm onstage. I come from not really wanting to be in lights or known or in front of people.

We blush very, very easily, and we get terrified of audiences.

I'm really shy - I don't do karaoke.

I was always shy and had a huge fear of being onstage.

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

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

I do talk a lot - far more than my husband - but I'm not good at talking to a lot of people. I either talk a lot of rubbish - which I'm sure I do a lot of the time anyway - or I stare at the soup. I'm no good at social presentation.

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

Offscreen, I'm a private person. I'm shy and don't know how to face the public.