Samantha Bee Quotes

It was very natural for me to want to disappear into dark theater, I am really very shy. That is something that people never seem to fully grasp because, when you are an actor, you are meant to be an exhibitionist.

The only thing I can do is act, but it's not something I even feel comfortable doing. It costs me a lot, because I'm a shy person, even if I don't look it.

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.

I'm an introvert at heart... And show business - even though I've loved it so much - has always been hard for me.

I can feel very brave through all the action scenes in front of the people who are on the set, but when a girl comes close to me my face turns red because I'm so shy.

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

I was an odd mixture of quite theatrical and shy.

I have a big persona onstage sometimes, but offstage, I'm super shy. Like, I don't want to perform for people - I'd rather die than sing in a room for someone.

I am really a very shy person. If I appear, it is because of the music, not because I want to be seen.

People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong.

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

I probably am more shy than people realize. But I'm shy when I leave a studio and I am just myself.

Some people love being onstage and really open up, and I'm sort of the opposite of that. I don't crave the spotlight. I'm still not comfortable even talking onstage.

I am honestly very intimidated when I meet new people and they expect me to be the onscreen Vir. On stage, I say a lot of things I might never say in real life; I am never the life of the party. People are quite surprised to see that I am more of a quiet artiste off stage.

I'm not a very gregarious person. I can't bear attention being called to me in a public place, which is ridiculous in a business that pays you to be noticed.

All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be, I am a dancer. But I don't think I would be on 'Dancing with the Stars,' mainly because I would be too shy.

I think lots of actors are very nervous and shy. I know lots of them who are, and some who aren't of course.

A lot of good actors tend to be quite introverted as people.

I'm not shy in the spotlight. I might seem austere and even arrogant, but far from it, I'm actually shy.

I really liked drama and being in plays, so when I was playing a character onstage and I could act like somebody else, then I wasn't scared or nervous, but I didn't like meeting new people when I had to be myself. That was scary.

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

I am essentially very shy. Which, I guess, is why I'm very good at not being shy.

I don't do live things.