Lynn Redgrave Quotes

I remember in second grade, everybody in the class had to come up with adjectives for each other, and I got shy. In a way, I force myself to perform, because if I didn't, I'd stay home rolled up in a ball watching 'The Real Housewives of Orange County' all day.

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

Believe it or not, I was a pretty shy youngster growing up.

I found it hard to express myself in the world. I was very shy. I'm still very shy. But also, when I was a child, I could get very... I had this violence... I still get angry. But I don't break things; I'm not hysterical.

I was very shy and withdrawn as a child, but people know me as these assertive women. They are not me.

Growing up, I always took things too personal and was very emotional, and I got made fun of for it.

A lot of vices that I've had over the years were always to make up for some sort of character deficiency, one of them being shyness.

I was a bit of an introvert growing up, and I tended to do better in math and science at school, so I went with it.

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.

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

I wasn't always this introverted.

And I was very shy as a kid; if you sang me 'Happy Birthday,' I would cry. Quite shy. So the idea of being an actor, much less a model, was just out of this world.

I was a nervous kid, not great socially.

To be honest, I was kind of a shy kid growing up.

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

I'd always been the confident guy in school. I was good in math and English, but I was still shy. I couldn't get up and speak in front of people. I was asked to do it when I was 10 years old and I burst out crying.

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

I'm pretty shy when I go home because I was pretty shy growing up, and I think I go back to that person.

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.

I knew I was weird by the time I was four. I knew I wasn't like other boys. I knew I was more fearful. I didn't like the rough and tumble most boys were into. I knew I was a sissy.

I've got a quiet voice. I think it's because as a child I didn't speak very much. I used to put my fingers in my ears to feel the silence, which was like a lovely trickling motion in my head.

I was never pushed into the industry. I was a very shy child. I was not one to perform for friends and family at every get-together.

I was kind of shy as a kid. I was a pretty good student. I was a wallflower, or nerd, if you will.

I always had a sketchbook with me when I was young. I was hiding behind it, basically, hiding behind drawing because I couldn't cope with people in real life; I was very shy and very nervous around people.

Now I worry. If people ended up liking me, did I do the job wrong? So I decided they didn't end up liking me - they ended up being able to deal with me.