Gareth Gates Quotes

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

My life isn't necessarily more important than anyone else's: I'm just better in talking about it.

I am quite a shy person. You say that to people, and they say, 'You do interviews, speeches. How can you be shy?' But, fundamentally, I am.

It was only after a visit to a learning centre, where they taught me public speaking, that my personality emerged.

I attended speech and drama classes with a nun to help me gain confidence in speaking without my face turning red each time.

I'm a constant idiot in conversation - I always seem to sound either smug or stupid. Writing plays was a way of winning the conversation by controlling the conversation.

I never used to speak at all. I always said Joe is the speaker of the family. I mean, I'd go to events and volunteer, but I was never a speaker.

I think, like, in real life, I'm actually quiet, and I mumble a lot. But that's not very lucrative.

Winning a pageant or sometimes simply participating in a contest can change your life. Outer beauty is just a part of the judgement, but what's important are your views and opinions that are shown to the world.

Out of frustration, I say things. Now, people listen to me so much I can say it under my breath and everybody hears me... I said in the past that I'm a work in progress, and I feel like I'm progressing.

We worry about appearing awkward in a presentation. But up to a point, most people seem to feel more comfortable with less-than-perfect speaking abilities. It makes the speaker more human - and more vulnerable, meaning he is less likely to attack our decisions or beliefs.

At the Brooklyn Ethical Culture School, we learned to express ourselves, and I've been expressing myself ever since.

I was terribly shy and never said anything in class. Then I started getting into school plays. When you've got words to say, you've got a sort of armour.

I'm shy. I am. I mean, if I get around, you know, in a room of a bunch of people especially I - you know, I don't know or - it takes me a while to warm up. I'm - and the real me, I'm not as witty as, you know, as the comic Wanda. The comic, she's had time to work on some things.

I think the day that I become comfortable doing interviews and going on talk shows is the day that I don't know what it is to be a human being anymore.

I'm actually pretty shy in real life. But I guess in front of the camera, I focus.

I still have shy qualities but nobody would believe that, just because we're in the forefront and I can talk a lot of mess and I can run my mouth.

I'm not shy, exactly, but I am private. I don't like to talk about myself. I had to learn - I was interviewed for print, radio and even TV.

I wasn't bullied or anything at school, but I was quite shy and didn't speak up too much in class.

At school I was very shy. I wasn't funny really.

When I started getting in front of the camera a lot, I think my confidence started to come out.

I'm shy, but sometimes my voice is so clear and strong.

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.

I'm quite shy. Really. I'm trying to expand myself as a person more, get involved with people.

I was quite creative at school, and was also interested in fashion, but I was shy - I'm still not the loudest of people, believe it or not.