Syd Barrett Quotes

I have always been a bit of an introvert. In fact, my dad used to force me to meet people so that my interpersonal skills improve. As an individual, I was happiest when left alone.

Maybe come to think about it, that is the sign of an extrovert, in any event I have always from the earliest of ages found it difficult to wander into a restaurant on my own.

I used to be really insular, really introverted. I couldn't articulate myself.

I didn't overcome my shyness. I am still shy.

I grew up a really shy kid, but I always surrounded myself with a lot funny people. It depends on the day - if I feel like being quiet, I will be. I'm not a complete goofball, though.

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

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

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.

As I got into high school and after puberty, I was a little more inward. I was a real extrovert when I was little, but I don't know, I just got quieter... With my friends, I was still an extrovert.

Shyness is inherently uncomfortable; introversion is not. The traits do overlap, though psychologists debate to what degree.

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'm much less shy in conversation than I am on my own.

It's true, I used to be so shy. I used to never talk, just sit back and do my thing. I was never bullied, though, and it was never like it was something that needed to be 'fixed', like being shy is a bad thing.

Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.

I don't think I'm particularly shy. I just don't like being front and center as myself.

Overcoming my shyness has been a lifelong struggle.

I was very shy and withdrawn as a child, but people know me as these assertive women. They are not me.

I just think that, for my particular personality, feeling slightly invisible is always a help.

Most people don't think of actors and people like us that are performers and out in the world as introverts, but I like to know I can trust someone first.

Not only am I a shy person, I take a little while to say what I mean, especially in a social situation, and usually those move too fast for me to say anything at all.

I'm an introvert and a shy person.

I'm a very shy, introverted person.

I'm not really shy.

I'm naturally an introvert.