Mariacarla Boscono Quotes

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

Nobody's just arrogant. I've met people who are embattled and dismissive, but when you get to know them, you find that they're vulnerable - that that hauteur or standoffishiness is because they're pedaling furiously underneath.

It's so much easier for me to get up and be someone else than expressing my own thoughts and feelings. There's definitely something about creating a cloak of a character that helped me deal with my shyness.

I used to be terribly shy, so I was either shy or over the top, and I always had a difficult time.

I think I've always acted confident, even at times I haven't been confident.

The minute I stop singing, I'm back to being shy. I'm soft-spoken because I never really talked to people. I didn't learn to do it.

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

I'm insecure about things. I'm not afraid to say it, though. Even when my publicist is like, 'Go on the red carpet,' I don't wanna go.

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

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

I love people who aren't embarrassed. I'm always embarrassed, so it's always astonishing to me when people aren't like that.

You see, every day, that the people who are seemingly so confident and seemingly so in love with themselves are the ones who are the most insecure and hurting the most inside.

I was very shy. I'm still shy.

I'm not the guy who bursts into the room. I'm the most insecure person you'll meet if you get to know me.

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

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

When you're an insecure teenager, you build walls and defenses and masks, and those are incredibly satisfying to perform and chip away at. I mean, when I was an insecure teenager, you'd have had no idea what I was insecure about because I hid it so well. Only confident people are comfortable wearing their vulnerabilities on their sleeve.

Men think they already know me. But as they get closer and closer, they become that 14-year-old again. A lot of men do stammer and blush a little bit.

I'm getting better now, but I used to be incredibly awkward with girls. I think any guy who says 'I've never had an awkward moment with a girl' is a liar.

I struggle to come up to people and say what I think.

I have always admired people who are comfortable not being liked because I am the opposite of that. To the point when I was little, it was crippling.

I'm very shy. I wish more people believed me when I say that.

Strutting and preening is, in fact, the surest sign of an inferiority complex.

I was not happy with myself as a human being when I was very young - I was afraid of people; I was afraid of talking, I didn't know how to express myself other than by being on stage.

I have had a lot of crushes but have never had the courage to go up to a girl and say what I feel. I am scared of rejection.