Katherine Kelly Quotes

I'm very shy in real life; I can't really hit on girls.

To be honest, I find going out pretty scary and intimidating. Got all those people checking you out, with only one purpose: hooking up. I'm quite the dork, I'd rather sit home and play Scrabble. But that doesn't get you a girl, does it?

I get nervous around girls for the first time. Once I'm in, I can take the reins and go. It's just the initial approach I'm really bad at.

I still get a little nervous when talking to girls. Which is awful, and embarrassing, because I feel like I shouldn't.

I can be shy when I talk to women. I'm a shy dude.

I've got friends who are so good at getting away with things, like going up to the desk to get upgraded on a plane, for example. I haven't got any of that kind of confidence in those situations. I look so awkward. I act awkward. I'm really apologetic.

It's really hard for me to be around people I admire.

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

I was very much a late bloomer. That's not to say that girls didn't express interest in me from time to time, but I just, I did not know how to respond to that.

I grew up walking out with no music. I wish I had the bottle to dance on but I can't dance.

There's never been a game plan, and I suppose I've had an uneasy relationship with my ambition. Someone who had been in my year at drama school once said to me that I was terrifyingly ambitious back then. Which was not at all what I felt at the time - I felt paralysed with shyness, though that evaporated.

I used to feel so shy speaking to girls. It was even worse when they were around their crew because they would diss me.

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

Shyness is just egoism out of its depth.

I don't know how to talk to people I don't know.

When I was younger, I think I intimidated people much more because I was far more insecure.

I've had to deal, a lot, with my own sense of intimidation at meeting famous people - especially actors, but really any famous people.

I was always really shy so I'd never try to get a guy's attention.

A lot of the time, people think I'm really dumb or really uncomfortable talking to them, which is kind of a real thing.

I was a nervous kid, not great socially.

It's hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I'm talking to them.

I'm awkward around girls.

I didn't do particularly well with girls at school. I was very shy. I'm not saying that was the only reason I didn't do well with them, but I just didn't.

I don't actually like dates. I get awkward as I never know what to do.

I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera.