Antony Armstrong-Jones Quotes

I'm not very good at going to parties and looking like I'm having fun.

I'm the person who will go to a wedding and switch the place cards around because I don't want to sit next to someone I don't know, because I'm so bad at chatting to strangers.

Sometimes I don't want to stand around a room full of strangers, chitchatting about nothing, so I'll come late to a party - and leave early. Though now that I'm saying this in a magazine, I'll probably never be invited to another one.

I can get awkward. I am not the best person to break the ice.

I am really a very shy person. If I appear, it is because of the music, not because I want to be seen.

When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.

I'm shy and can't for the life of me barge around and slap people on the back. I sit in a corner by myself and am tickled to death when someone comes over to talk to me.

I don't like when there's too much conversation because I'm shy and it makes me uncomfortable.

I don't know how to talk to people I don't know.

I'm super shy, especially at parties.

I just don't like people coming up to me and saying something. It immediately makes you become insincere. There is no way you can react to it sincerely.

I'm a bad interview because I want to always feel like I'm being totally honest, but at the same time, I'm absolutely paranoid. That combination results in a lot of spaces.

I'm a little more shy and not comfortable dancing in front of a large crowd.

I'm painfully shy.

I'm not a good small talker. I'm not into small talk, frankly.

I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.

It was terrible on dates, because I could never eat when I was on a date.

I never sing out loud because I'm afraid people will go, 'Shut up!'

It's hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I'm talking to them.

I'm awkward around girls.

I am shy - going to parties kills me.

If I go out with no make-up and a tracksuit on, nobody comes up to me. And if they do, I won't do a photo because I wouldn't want any photographic evidence.

I have a fear of being boring.

I always think that I've embarrassed myself.

I was a very shy child. I remember being in a kindergarten open house with my mother and children saying 'Hi' to me, and I still remember feeling this way - but I don't know why - but I wouldn't even say 'Hi' back. I was that shy.