Jillian Michaels Quotes

I was an awkward kid.

Weirdly, for someone who wanted to be funny, I didn't like a lot of attention.

I'm 87% socially awkward.

I don't know, I'm literally the most awkward, socially strange person.

I have a dread of sounding pretentious and try not to talk too much about what I do.

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

I was very shy. I'm still shy.

I can be shy when I talk to women. I'm a shy dude.

It's bloody annoying being shy. I'll spend a whole evening at a party asking everyone else about themselves. I'm not being self-deprecating; it's because I'm too shy to talk about myself. So people come away from the evening actually having learnt nothing about me.

I feel shy when people are fussing on me.

I'm not a quick wit. I'm only funny on paper. I mean, I'm not totally humorless! It's just that in person, I'm not quite the way I am on paper.

As a child, I was awkward, fidgety, and shy, with a total inability to concentrate, and in that regard, I'm exactly the same as an adult.

I find it very hard to approach people. I take a very long time to open up and become friends with someone.

I'm a little bit of a creep.

I'm the most awkward man alive.

Sexy? Me? I'm too shy.

I was voted 'most shy' in seventh grade! Can you even believe it?

I've always felt a bit weird, very shy.

I'd been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that's part of being shy.

It’s funny—when people call you “shy,” they usually smile. Like it’s cute, some funny little habit you’ll grow out of when you’re older, like the gaps in your grin when your baby teeth fall out. If they knew how it felt—really being shy, not just unsure at first—they wouldn’t smile. Not if they knew how the feeling knots up your stomach or makes your palms sweat or robs you of the ability to say anything that makes sense. It’s not cute at all.

Shyness is a curious thing, because, like quicksand, it can strike people at any time, and also, like quicksand, it usually makes its victims look down.

I don't want people to look at me.

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

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

I like parties, but I'm shy, and I often find myself standing around, feeling awkward.