Frank Peretti Quotes

I was almost tragically shy, like, clinically. I should've been admitted somewhere. I think my parents knew, but maybe they didn't think much about it. It's hard walking the Earth shy. You miss out on a lot.

Kids will pick up on weakness, and I was very shy growing up. I was skinny and flat-chested; I didn't have the latest clothes. For me, it was about being left out and not having any friends and being laughed at. I was very lonely, but that happens to so many people.

I'd been shy since childhood, constantly full of self-doubt. And as an actor, I'd been so scared of failing that I made my career - and myself - a big joke.

When I was younger, I used to be super, super shy. I still find myself being scared of things.

At school I was always taller than the rest of my class, and because I was an only child, I was comfortable with adults but shy and awkward with other kids. I was quiet, bookish, and in spite of my size, hopeless at sports. In short, I was different. And even in the earliest grades, I got pounded for it.

I'm pretty shy when I go home because I was pretty shy growing up, and I think I go back to that person.

I'm too shy, really to be able to hang out with my heroes for too long.

I was painfully shy as a child.

I was the kind of kid, I'd sit in the back row of the class with my head practically under the desk. I was incredibly afraid of people and very shy.

I was a shy kid. I was awkward. I was picked on.

I was nervous to even talk to other kids in my class. I would hide in my room when my parents had people over.

I'm shy and open up to very few people.

In grammar school, I didn't talk. Everybody said I was the invisible one. I'm still very shy.

I find it very hard to approach people. I take a very long time to open up and become friends with someone.

I usually feel that I prefer to hide from people.

I'm actually quite a shy person and it's becoming clearer to me. Sometimes I would like to disappear, maybe only for an hour.

I'm shy. I'm not sociable. I'm very insecure.

When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.

I've never had friends, and I don't like to be around big groups of people.

I'm shy and can't for the life of me barge around and slap people on the back. I sit in a corner by myself and am tickled to death when someone comes over to talk to me.

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

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.

I was an awkward kid.

I sense from people that they get frustrated with me for not being out and about. But I guess I'm a shy boy.

When you are shy, you live a lot in your own head.