Michelle Ryan Quotes

I didn't go out on one date in high school.

I didn't have an incredibly active social life as a teenager. I always wished it was a little bit more exciting than it was.

I was so shy, I didn't have friends 'til 16 or something.

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

I never dated much in high school or college.

I never got to go to prom. I never went to regular school. I ate lunch by myself.

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 a very, very shy, insecure teenager.

I find it not hard to make friends, but it's definitely different when I go somewhere like summer camp and everyone already knows that I'm in 'Hunger Games'... My life is still pretty normal, and I still have some really great friends.

I didn't have that many friends my first few years of high school. It was very cliquey and I'm super shy, so it was hard to make friends.

People aren't throwing themselves at me, but I also don't go out very much. Like, when I do go out, it's for breakfast, so it's a little hard to throw yourself at me during breakfast.

I was a bit of a loner as a teenager. I never went to a single social event, because they terrified me.

I was actually a really sort of nervous, shy kid. In high school, it was one of those things where I wasn't popular or a loser; I just don't think many people really knew who I was.

I was the awkward, shy chick in high school.

I was a loner; I spent the first half of high school alone.

I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true.

Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.

I've never been a social person. When I grew up, the other girls would all be combing their hair and exchanging lipstick, and I just couldn't do that group thing.

I don't why I was bullied. I was quite shy and skinny. Very nerdy, very bookwormish. I think I was just a target.

As we all know, when you're an athlete things are a little bit easier for you. It didn't mean that what was going on inside my heart wasn't a bit of a thunderstorm, but outwardly I got along ok. I was really shy in seventh grade.

When I was in high school, I had already kind of been working in the industry and had done a couple of acting jobs. There were definitely some girls that were either jealous or thought I was a snob. I was just trying to be a teenage girl and go to high school and have fun like everybody else!

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 was an awkward kid.

I was a shy and insecure kid and didn't know quite where I fit.

I missed out on everything. Sometimes on the street I see teenagers hanging out and going to the movies, going to concerts, and I get so jealous.