Michelle Shocked Quotes

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 was too shy to go and meet Princess Diana.

I've never had a desire to be famous. Lots of actors are actually extremely shy. I have shy areas.

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 get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women.

I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well.

I'm terribly, horribly shy.

I'm always awkward when someone recognizes me.

I was very shy. It was kind of scary to meet new people.

I'm just a really shy person. I don't gravitate towards attention, so for someone like me to have as much attention as I have is bizarre.

I get shy. I think that's in any situation.

Sometimes I have a little social anxiety, and meeting people can be a challenge for me.

I am very shy by nature and I won't even have told people about my birthday, had I not been an actor.

I just don't have that natural instinct to be able to let my guard down and start speaking to people. I never have - I've always been a bit socially awkward, even with people I've known for a long time.

I've been shy twice. Once when I saw Matthew Bomer and once when I saw Adam Levine. I couldn't say anything, literally.

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

I'm quite shy, so if there's a guy I like, I actually ignore him because I can't speak to him. I get all red and sweaty, and it's embarrassing.

I was a painfully shy person in my pre-acting days.

I'm not confident in social situations; just going up to someone in a bar and saying 'Hi' is going to be even more difficult because they won't know the real me. They will just know me as a fictional person I play on the screen.

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

I sense from people that they get frustrated with me for not being out and about. But I guess I'm a shy boy.

I'm super shy, especially at parties.

When you are shy, you live a lot in your own head.

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