Ben Fogle Quotes

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

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

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

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

I was a chronically shy child. That kernel of my younger self is still there, but I've developed mechanisms to deal with it.

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

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.

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

I've gotten over my shyness from many years of doing public events.

I was painfully shy when I was a kid. I always thought when most people were born, part of the toolkit was teaching you how to relate to other people - and it was just left out of my toolkit.

I was painfully shy for a long time. I mean, that's something I really had to work my way out of. And I really think it was because, after the 2008 Olympics, I spent a whole year bartending. It was the one thing that really forced me to be just not so scared to start conversations with strangers.

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

I want to resume the life of a shy person.

I was shy when I was a kid, I was very shy, but now I think I've improved a lot. I can speak OK with the media and with the people. My English is still bad but I feel a little bit better now than before.

In high school, I was too shy to perform. It's one thing to get laughs from your family, to be funny at parties and in class. It's another thing to get up on the stage.

I'm shy, but not on a one-to-one basis. Over the years, I have become acclimatised to a bit of publicity.

I've gotten better at not making people feel uncomfortable with my shyness.

Overcoming my shyness has been a lifelong struggle.

I'm not great... in large groups of people, but I'm not shy anymore.

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.

I was a very shy kid. Very shy. But I started doing theatre when I was six years old, and that really changed something. My more playful side came out of me.

The minute I stop singing, I'm back to being shy. I'm soft-spoken because I never really talked to people. I didn't learn to do it.

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

Growing up, sports was my outlet, my way to portray a personality. I was very shy around people but, through sports, something I was good at, I was able to make friends.