Richard Eyre Quotes

I am innately very shy, and I have struggled with that challenge for years.

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

I didn't overcome my shyness. I am still shy.

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.

I had social anxiety to the max. I was scared of my own shadow! But as I grew, I got more comfortable with myself.

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

I'm concerned with the lost, the lonely, the shy. I think shyness is in some ways more widespread now than formerly. I used to be shy myself. Of course, you can't be me now and remain shy, but I remember very well what it felt like.

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 have always been a bit of an introvert. In fact, my dad used to force me to meet people so that my interpersonal skills improve. As an individual, I was happiest when left alone.

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

I want to resume the life of a shy person.

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.

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

I was extremely shy. I am still shy, but I won't show it on stage.

I had this idea that being an introvert was a negative thing, that it had a negative connotation, and I really wanted, as a young person, to strive to be the life of the party and to be really outgoing and to have a million friends. And then I realized that an introvert isn't a negative.

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.

I remember being chronically shy. I came out of my shell a bit when I went to university, but I'm still fairly shy in company.

I didn't know how to get along with others. I didn't even know how to be in the same room with other people. Then, after a while, you learn.

Some people get a little shy, you know, and it can take a certain mood or a situation or a vibe for you to relax and come out of your shell.

I would hide behind my parents' legs at social events, I was even shy in front of my sisters. I was a really, really ridiculously shy boy. But the one thing I took from my public school education was confidence.

I grew up a really shy kid, but I always surrounded myself with a lot funny people. It depends on the day - if I feel like being quiet, I will be. I'm not a complete goofball, though.

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.

I was painfully shy when I was a kid. I always thought when most people were born, part of the toolkit was teaching you how to relate to other people - and it was just left out of my toolkit.

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.