Rumer Willis Quotes

I'm not a real social person - I'm shy - and a lot of the business is just social.

I thought school was immensely boring, and as a teenager, I often found social life quite mystifying... I was not someone to whom it came easily to be charming.

I'm not very cool. I have a really hard time meeting people and stuff.

I have always been a bit of an introvert. In fact, my dad used to force me to meet people so that my interpersonal skills improve. As an individual, I was happiest when left alone.

You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.

When I came to New York, I was really awkward. I went to military academy for high school, so I didn't have the socialization that most kids do. When I got here, I was five years behind everybody. Talking to women was weird for me.

I'm not that smooth.

I was raised with adults. I skipped knowing how to interact as a normal teenage person.

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

I definitely wasn't cool in high school. I really wasn't. I did belong to many of the clubs and was in leadership on yearbook and did the musical theater route, so I had friends in all areas. But I certainly did not know what to wear, did not know how to do my hair, all those things.

I think it shows that you are a confident person if you can walk up to a group of girls and just be able to talk to them sober.

I think the shyness one feels in childhood is often overcome with time. There are children who hide behind their parents' legs, but you don't see grown-ups hiding behind people. It just doesn't happen. I mean, not that often. People develop social skills over time.

I'm not good at small talk. I'm really not. I'm not that great at any talk.

I definitely think, when you're a teenager, it's more forgiving to talk to strangers and go up to people at a mall or whatever.

I was quiet in high school and relatively unpopular, so being noticed is not something that I'm used to.

Even as a kid, classmates asked pointed personal questions about my family. I have conditioned myself to handle it with maturity.

I was a painfully shy, awkward kid, with low self-esteem and almost no social skills. Online, I didn't have a problem talking to people or making friends. But in the real world. interacting with other people - especially kids my own age - made me a nervous wreck. I never knew how to act or what to say, and when I did work up the courage to speak, I always seemed to say the wrong thing.

I'm not great... in large groups of people, but I'm not shy anymore.

Growing up, if I had been given any advice - bad or good - I probably wouldn't have been able to act on it regardless. I wasn't shy, but I'd get nervous. I got a little more confident later in high school when I realized I could get girls to pay attention to me by making them laugh.

Some people are very good at that, communicating with the world; I'm not sure I'm suited to it.

I was actually a really sort of nervous, shy kid. In high school, it was one of those things where I wasn't popular or a loser; I just don't think many people really knew who I was.

I'm socially awkward in life, and that's one of the reasons why I do what I do. I'm more about interpreting other people's words.

Parents don't want their kids to be nerdy.

I'm so socially awkward. I really had to put myself out there and meet new people.

I stayed at home and loved my own company because I was just petrified of everybody else my own age, which I think a lot of people are.