Sue Townsend Quotes

Even now I can't stand being recognized in the street. I just hate it when strangers come up and try to talk to me. I'm pathologically shy.

I did not love going out to parties or even get-togethers, really - I went to the movies, which, if you think about it, is an isolating experience anyway - and this was because I had anxiety about interacting with people.

I've been stopped a few times by people who want to say, 'Hi.' But I'm an introverted person, and the idea that I'd have to talk to people all the time seems a little overwhelming.

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.

What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.

I am shy - going to parties kills me.

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

As a child, I was very shy. Painfully, excruciatingly shy. I hid a lot in my room. I was so terrified to read out loud in school that I had to have my mother ask my reading teacher not to call on me in class.

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.

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

I am very shy. When I go to a charity ball, I don't mind if people look at my sleeves. I mind terribly if I have to say something.

I'm not comfortable being around too many people. I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff. So most of the characters I play are people who don't always feel comfortable beyond their small circle of friends.

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

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.

I don't go to the mall a lot 'cause girls scream and run at me, and I get shy.

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

I had become shy of life's bustle in my solitary retreat and was apprehensive at the thought of facing the world.

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

In acting class, I used to hide in the corner and pray the teacher wouldn't call on me.

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

I blush easily. I have difficulty meeting people's eye, difficulty with public speaking, the normal afflictions of the shy, but not to a paralysing degree.

Touring is just not normal for me. My personality is to never ever talk to people if I can help it.

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.

I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.

I was a very shy child. I remember being in a kindergarten open house with my mother and children saying 'Hi' to me, and I still remember feeling this way - but I don't know why - but I wouldn't even say 'Hi' back. I was that shy.