Edie Campbell Quotes

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

I hate parties. I really don't like public events. I hate dressing up. I am the worst celebrity ever!

I'm, like, the most terrible person to go to a party with in the world, because I just can't enjoy it. I'm just thinking all the time about what it means and what the implications are.

I do talk a lot - far more than my husband - but I'm not good at talking to a lot of people. I either talk a lot of rubbish - which I'm sure I do a lot of the time anyway - or I stare at the soup. I'm no good at social presentation.

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

I find parties difficult. I like a dinner party, but I find being at parties difficult, so I choose not to go to parties.

I've been stopped a few times by people who want to say, 'Hi.' But I'm an introverted person, and the idea that I'd have to talk to people all the time seems a little overwhelming.

I get butterflies before I go out to say hello at a party.

I found myself getting more publicly shy when the gala events and big crowds started. Some people embrace it. To me, it's not worth enough to risk my private life being public.

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.

As a point of fact, I am not used to making frequent appearances in public, except at times when it is required.

I don't mind having people over, but it's weird how much more withdrawn I've become than being social in public places, I guess.

At the root of the shy temperament is a deep fear of social judgment, one so severe it can sometimes be crippling. Introverted people don't worry unduly about whether they'll be found wanting, they just find too much socializing exhausting and would prefer either to be alone or in the company of a select few people.

It's awkward going to parties with people you don't know, especially when they think they know you.

You know what my greatest personal stumbling block is? My shyness.

I panic at parties. I don't like talking absolutely nothing and pretending, so I'm quite odd socially.

I do spend - I feel like I spend about my first 20 minutes at any cocktail party convincing people that I'm not going to harm them in some way.

I don't do well in social environments.

It's partly true that I am not seen that often in public. Well, I'm just socially awkward, especially around people I'm not familiar with. But once you get to know me, I'm quite a chatterbox.

I used to be extremely shy.

I tended to be the nerdy kid - stood at the back, watching other people having fun - I wasn't always necessarily a big part of the fun myself.

Just because you can leap off a drum kit doing a scissors kick while hitting a chord, people expect you to be an extrovert socially. But I'm not always comfortable with the idea of small talk at a party.

I started studying shyness in adults in 1972. Shyness operates at so many different levels. Out of that research came the Stanford shyness clinic in 1977.

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

I really hate being recognised. I'm quite a shy person, and I'm not very good at talking to strangers. So when people come up to me in the street, I just find it quite awkward. I don't really know what to say to them.