Lindsay Davenport Quotes

My friends were amazed that I became a TV presenter. I was not a big talker at school - I never liked people seeing my braces, so I walked around with my sleeves pulled over my hands and my hands over my mouth in case anybody saw me smiling.

When I was younger, I barely talked. I was scared of people. I had to learn how to cultivate that confidence.

You have to get over being shy, and just be comfortable with yourself, and I think that for me, if I'd stayed in a small town, I'd be a different person.

As a young guy I was really shy, more shy than I am now.

I've never hidden the fact that I used to be shy, even when I was 30. However, I might have been self-conscious on the inside, but I was never inhibited about my body.

I love people who aren't embarrassed. I'm always embarrassed, so it's always astonishing to me when people aren't like that.

For many years, I didn't even like the idea of doing a one-person play. Public speaking got me past that. I've always been good at public speaking, but I never really enjoyed it. Then I started to really enjoy it, and that's made all the difference.

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've always been very shy. Now I don't care anymore.

I started when I was in college because I was shy and thought it would be a good way to break out of that.

I was painfully shy, so my aunt suggested to my mum that me and my brother go to Stage 84, a performing arts school in Yorkshire. I've probably romanticised it in my head, but I seem to remember that in the space of an hour's drama workshop, I was transformed. I went in really shy, and I came out full of confidence.

Now I can walk into a room full of people I don't know and do my job. That's quite a massive thing to learn, I think.

It took me a long time to be alright with smiling onstage.

The truth of the matter is that I used to be much more - as it were - shy. Now I don't care!

As a little girl, I was always shy, but in front of the camera I wasn't.

I still sweat bullets if I go on The Tonight Show, but I tell myself, You can either have fun tonight or you can be shy and miserable. You ask my friends or anyone I work with now - nobody would say I was shy.

I was terribly shy and never said anything in class. Then I started getting into school plays. When you've got words to say, you've got a sort of armour.

I think that I need to work on being comfortable at being normal, everyday-ish on camera.

I've played so many jobs where I'm fearless, but it's far from me. I wish I were like that in real life.

I'm still insecure, but when I first started acting, I was really insecure. I glared at a lot of people. I assumed everyone hated me. Somehow that scowl has turned into an acting career.

People probably thought I was scary, but I was just uncomfortable with attention and tended to be a little closed off, except with friends. I learned to embrace the attention.

I'm quite shy. Really. I'm trying to expand myself as a person more, get involved with people.

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

From the core, I'm a shy person, but when I'm on stage, I know how to put it aside. Of course, I'm not perfect, but I've definitely grown as far as being comfortable on stage.

In real life I'm very low-key. A wallflower. One of the reasons I went into comedy and acting was that I was sick of being shy.