Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

People probably thought I was scary, but I was just uncomfortable with attention and tended to be a little closed off, except with friends. I learned to embrace the attention.

I'm always a little innately shy when I first talk to a girl, and I think I always will be! But I think that's a good thing. You don't want to lose that.

When I was younger, I barely talked. I was scared of people. I had to learn how to cultivate that confidence.

I've always been very shy and sheltered; I think it was a good way of starting to communicate with people. I was taught as a child never to talk about myself, never to talk about my emotions. Of course, now I talk about myself constantly. Now I have to take reverse est.

I've never hidden the fact that I used to be shy, even when I was 30. However, I might have been self-conscious on the inside, but I was never inhibited about my body.

I'm very private in person. I'm very sensitive and shy with men individually. But when I'm talking, maybe there's this other channel or this other side and other way of working in my mind, and I convert and become carefree.

I'm coming from a place of total strength and humility now.

All of us introverts aspire to be more outgoing, but it's not in our nature. When I was nearly 50, I discovered that the best thing to do was to tell everyone I worked with that I'm just shy. People are not mind readers - you need to let them know.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

It's true, I used to be so shy. I used to never talk, just sit back and do my thing. I was never bullied, though, and it was never like it was something that needed to be 'fixed', like being shy is a bad thing.

There's a lot of annoying things about me. I don't know, I'm really shy at first, and I don't really like it. I wish I was a little more outgoing.

As a young guy I was really shy, more shy than I am now.

Believe in yourself and try not to take anything personally.

It's good to be able to laugh at yourself and the problems you face in life. Sense of humor can save you.

If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.

I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength.

It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

I'm still insecure, but when I first started acting, I was really insecure. I glared at a lot of people. I assumed everyone hated me. Somehow that scowl has turned into an acting career.

You know, once you have been through a certain amount of things in life, you definitely grow more comfortable with yourself.

I'm quite shy. Really. I'm trying to expand myself as a person more, get involved with people.

I was a chronically shy child. That kernel of my younger self is still there, but I've developed mechanisms to deal with it.

You have to stay true to yourself and where you're coming from, and sometimes people see you in a different light, but you have to take it in and try to be positive about anything.

It's very easy for me to laugh at myself and laugh at life.

I have a high degree of sensitivity, always have. I was very shy as a child. I don't know why that was.

I master my doubts now. I have fun with them, they're my travelling companions.