Veronica Roth Quotes

I get very uncomfortable with people watching me.

The majority of teenagers don't even make eye contact with people, even people of the same age.

You always try to play it off cool, but even if I think I have a certain laidback body language when I'm meeting someone who I greatly admire, I still have this horrible tendency to go bright red.

I'm awkward under the limelight.

I actually feel awkward being at the center of attention.

It’s funny—when people call you “shy,” they usually smile. Like it’s cute, some funny little habit you’ll grow out of when you’re older, like the gaps in your grin when your baby teeth fall out. If they knew how it felt—really being shy, not just unsure at first—they wouldn’t smile. Not if they knew how the feeling knots up your stomach or makes your palms sweat or robs you of the ability to say anything that makes sense. It’s not cute at all.

I get really nervous when people are like, 'I saw you in a trailer! I saw you on TV!' Genuinely, my cheeks get red.

Certainly, people feel awkward when they have their photograph taken. They want to see it, but they don't want to see it.

I can talk to anybody but when it comes to somebody that I like, then I turn into like this five-year-old kindergartener in a sandbox.

Strangers still leave me self-conscious.

If I kind of like a guy, then I'm a fantastic flirt. But with a guy I truly like, I get painfully shy.

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

I can't watch myself in interviews. I feel like I look like a wreck. My mom is always calling me and going, 'Stop fidgeting,' and it's like, 'You have no idea what it's like, Mom.'

It's always a little nerve-wracking to do a love scene, more than anything because it's just awkward.

Being serious just makes me a little bit embarrassed.

I'm nervous and awkward.

I hate Q&As. They make me feel awkward.

If I've done a gig and at the end there are people waiting for autographs, they always seem nervous, but they probably don't realise that I'm more nervous than them. I get very embarrassed.

I can't even talk to someone and make eye contact.

I'm a bit awkward.

Sometimes I have a little social anxiety, and meeting people can be a challenge for me.

Truthfully, I'm incredibly shy, and I'm very awkward around boys.

I don't know what to do with my arms. It just makes me feel weird and I feel like people are looking at me and that makes me nervous.

I may be nervous," I say. "Okay, I'm really glad you said that, because I just went to the back room to put on more deodorant." Sebastian says.

Do not to be as shy around girls, because they're probably just as shy and just as scared as you are.