Samantha Shannon Quotes

I find it difficult to talk about myself. I'm just shy.

I probably am more shy than people realize. But I'm shy when I leave a studio and I am just myself.

When I was tiny, I was a real observer of human behaviour, and I knew I wanted to tell the human story, but I felt shy and unattractive and awkward.

When I was a teenager, I was fat. I was shy. I wore glasses. I had a big eyebrow and hair all over my body. They were years of torture.

I was very much a late bloomer. That's not to say that girls didn't express interest in me from time to time, but I just, I did not know how to respond to that.

I had just started ninth grade when I got my acne. And I had braces. I wouldn't look people in the eye. It was not a good time for me - it just killed my self-esteem. I thought when I didn't look at someone, they couldn't see my face.

I'm just not used to talking that much about myself. It feels strange.

I'm not as shy as everybody makes me out to be.

When I was about 13 I realised girls weren't going to kiss me because I was a gigantic, weird looking creature from the depths. I was like 6 ft. aged 11.

When I was a kid, I was super shy.

Middle school was probably my hardest time. I was trying to fit in for so long, until about junior year of high school when I realized that trying to fit into this one image of perfection was never going to make me happy.

I'm shy in my personal life.

I'm not great at talking about myself.

I was very shy. I'm still shy.

I don't like to talk about myself that much.

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 don't like talking about myself, if I'm honest.

I was a very quiet child growing up. I always knew that I was funny - I just never put it to use.

I'm actually introverted and shy.

As a young man, I was very introverted and quiet, but with a lot of intensity and feelings.

I think it really holds you back having to think about your image.

I used to be really insular, really introverted. I couldn't articulate myself.

High school was a complicated, confusing time for me. I wasn't confident, didn't know who I was, and was hiding from myself a lot.

I don't think I'm particularly shy. I just don't like being front and center as myself.

We moved in 8th grade, so 7th grade I was doing okay, and then 8th grade, everything fell apart. I had no fashion sense to speak of. We only had a couple of hair care products back then. We didn't have all these things to tame your hair. I had glasses; I had braces. I had it all.