Jeremy Renner Quotes

I was - I was very - I wasn't outgoing at all as a child.

I used to be extremely shy.

I was a painfully shy person in my pre-acting days.

I was a shy kid, a late bloomer. At 22, I was probably 16 emotionally.

I have to remind myself constantly to not be antisocial, because I stay to myself a lot. I'm a lot more introspective than my characters.

I wish I was a little more gregarious and outgoing.

I absolutely hated high school. As a freshman, I was 5 feet tall and weighed 95 pounds... When I got to high school, I had no social skills. Was I a nerd? More of a dork. Definitely not one of the popular kids.

I'm always a little innately shy when I first talk to a girl, and I think I always will be! But I think that's a good thing. You don't want to lose that.

I'm very quiet. I can go a whole week without talking, so doing interviews is really awkward for me!

My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

I don't really have loads of friends - three or four who are close. The thing that I love the most is playing with my band, and with everything else I feel kind of uncomfortable. I don't think I'm socially awkward. I just prefer being behind a piano.

The more I get to do this character, the more I realize that she's not just annoying. It's that her strength is not interacting with people socially. She just doesn't have time because she has so much going on in her brain.

I've become more introverted as I've got older. I used to be an outgoing person who joked around a lot, but as the amount of energy I expend by sharing my music has increased, I like to balance it by spending time by myself and recuperating.

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

I am actually a very unspeaking person. I'm not really good in social situations. People expect me to be more outgoing. I don't know why. They think I have this kind of assurance.

I was a shy little girl, nothing like what I am now.

I have to be a lot more calculating because I'm a very private person. I actually really struggle with the attention; I'm generally a pretty shy kind of a person. So it's tough figuring out how to manage it. But there are ways of managing it, and you just have to be smart.

I was shy at school.

I'm a real extrovert, but when I'm round someone new, I'm super shy.

I was extremely shy. I am still shy, but I won't show it on stage.

I had this idea that being an introvert was a negative thing, that it had a negative connotation, and I really wanted, as a young person, to strive to be the life of the party and to be really outgoing and to have a million friends. And then I realized that an introvert isn't a negative.

There's a lot of annoying things about me. I don't know, I'm really shy at first, and I don't really like it. I wish I was a little more outgoing.

I was very shy and socially awkward.

I was quiet in high school and relatively unpopular, so being noticed is not something that I'm used to.

I'm so socially awkward. I really had to put myself out there and meet new people.