Jennifer Lawrence Quotes

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.

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 was the kind of kid, I'd sit in the back row of the class with my head practically under the desk. I was incredibly afraid of people and very shy.

We moved around so much when I was young. I was very shy, so shy that I would walk across the street if I saw someone I knew rather than deal with talking to them.

I'm shy. I'm not sociable. I'm very insecure.

When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.

I don't know, I'm literally the most awkward, socially strange person.

I'm shy and can't for the life of me barge around and slap people on the back. I sit in a corner by myself and am tickled to death when someone comes over to talk to me.

Even at age 10, I already knew that I was different from most people. My anxiety disorder was still years from being diagnosed, but it affected me quite deeply. I was too afraid to speak out in class, too nervous to make real friends.

Growing up, I had a ton of friends, and I had a great life, but people still made fun of me sometimes.

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.

I was an awkward kid.

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

I've always been a geek and slightly awkward... slightly umm... I was never the cool kid at school.

I'm super shy, especially at parties.

I actually wasn't really the class clown growing up. The class clown was always the mean guy who walked up and was like, 'You're fat. You're gay. I'm outta here!' I was always more kind of awkward and introspective.

I'm painfully shy.

I'm very shy in a crowd.

I was a nervous kid, not great socially.

You're always tellin' me to go out more, Go ahead, get out and see the world, But then I think, why should I? I'd rather stay home and cry.

Strangers still leave me self-conscious.

It's true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found the company of others, especially other boys, quite terrifying and upsetting.

I'm self-loathing, introverted, and neurotic.

I do have an outsider's complex of getting made fun of. I was made fun of as a kid, and I don't have the stomach for it.

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