Joelle Carter Quotes

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

I used to be terribly shy, so I was either shy or over the top, and I always had a difficult time.

I was nervous to even talk to other kids in my class. I would hide in my room when my parents had people over.

I sense from people that they get frustrated with me for not being out and about. But I guess I'm a shy boy.

I was a nervous kid, not great socially.

There is a shyness about me, and I really need to get out more.

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've never been all that comfortable in real life.

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

In grammar school, I didn't talk. Everybody said I was the invisible one. I'm still very shy.

My shyness probably defined the first 30 years of my life, really. It's a crippling thing. It can be very lonely knowing that you've got things to say, but you daren't say them.

I had some social anxiety when I was younger because I wasn't surrounded by many people in my life.

I was a wallflower. I never talked to anybody. I was so afraid of people, I never said a word.

There are times when I'm kind of anti-social, I'm just really shy, and I don't feel like I fit in, and I then attribute that to some emotional state that's crippling me.

I was a very shy and introverted person, and it was hard for me to talk to people and make relationships.

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 get as much female attention as you'd think, because I never go out.

I've never had friends, and I don't like to be around big groups of people.

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.

I just don't have this magnetic personality that everyone is drawn to. I don't make friends easily... I'm just not one of those people.

I was always the kid at the side of the playground, looking at the other kids. I didn't know how to get into the group. I was quiet and bookish, a bit of a geek. I was into orienteering when my friends were out clubbing.

There's something about being rejected - when I go out without my friends, I'm reminded of how I'm actually quite antisocial. I don't look like a guy who feels like that, but it's very hard for me to start up a conversation. At a party, I'm lost.

I was regarded as the school freak which further reinforced a lot of inhibitions and doubts I had about myself. I was a shy, frightened teenager for a long time.

I was very shy. I'm still shy.