Kristin Gore Quotes

I was a bookish nerd.

I was a slightly geeky kid.

My deep dark secret is that I was a nerd in school. I liked the theater. I liked to study. I wasn't very good at sports.

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.

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

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

I was definitely always the bigger girl and kind of weird. I didn't make friends very easily and I was a big reader, so I was very antisocial, and I knew that people were judging me.

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 wasn't a naturally confident, extravert, outgoing person.

I'm not very cool. I have a really hard time meeting people and stuff.

At my very core, I'm pretty shy. I just happen to have a weird job.

I don't get as much female attention as you'd think, because I never go out.

I always thought I was a little shy, especially compared to my brother and my sister, but I guess I was always the kid doing performances in the front room.

I'm really not that comfortable with people. I mean, I love individuals, but I'm not very social.

I am not as confident as the characters I play. I am a bit aloof. I am uncomfortable in social situations.

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

I think I'm dull. I would rather watch other people.

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 wasn't always this introverted.

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

I was really shy when I was a child, very self-conscious about taking up space or being an attention seeker. I was the kind of kid who was really good at homework.

I don't have many friends. It's not because I'm a misanthrope. It's because I'm reserved. I'm self-contained. I get all my adventures in my head when I'm writing my books.

Ever since I left Northern Ireland, I've always been pretty comfortable on my own, which contradicts a lot of people's perceptions of me.

I had a couple of friends, but I was mostly the kid with his nose in a book.