Terrell Owens Quotes

I was almost tragically shy, like, clinically. I should've been admitted somewhere. I think my parents knew, but maybe they didn't think much about it. It's hard walking the Earth shy. You miss out on a lot.

I was always the kid at the side of the playground, looking at the other kids. I didn't know how to get into the group. I was quiet and bookish, a bit of a geek. I was into orienteering when my friends were out clubbing.

I was an extremely reclusive and introverted boy.

In school, I was the quietest girl ever! I had a lot of trouble in school. Kids were mean to me.

At school I was always taller than the rest of my class, and because I was an only child, I was comfortable with adults but shy and awkward with other kids. I was quiet, bookish, and in spite of my size, hopeless at sports. In short, I was different. And even in the earliest grades, I got pounded for it.

I was very introverted. You know, I had my close group of friends, but I really didn't care what the cool kids were doing.

I'm antisocial - there's no question about it.

I've never been a social person.

I was very awkward as a kid. I was a square trying to fit into a circle and it never worked for me. The harder I tried, the harder I fell. For some reason I was a real target and I got beat up and called names.

I was a shy kid. I was awkward. I was picked on.

We moved around so much when I was young. I was very shy, so shy that I would walk across the street if I saw someone I knew rather than deal with talking to them.

I was nervous to even talk to other kids in my class. I would hide in my room when my parents had people over.

I was really shy and kept to the theater department. I was keeping my eyes down when I walked through the halls. So, no nemesis. Not in high school, anyway.

Kids will pick up on weakness, and I was very shy growing up. I was skinny and flat-chested; I didn't have the latest clothes. For me, it was about being left out and not having any friends and being laughed at. I was very lonely, but that happens to so many people.

I was the awkward, shy chick in high school.

I'm very introverted. Easily a few days could go by where I would not really leave the house or talk to anybody other than my partner.

I usually feel that I prefer to hide from people.

I had some social anxiety when I was younger because I wasn't surrounded by many people in my life.

Of course I had friends, but it was very limiting because there was always a chance that at every corner, someone would be laughing at me or waiting to beat me up. I had a very lonely childhood because of that.

I have very few friends and don't talk much.

I was definitely always the bigger girl and kind of weird. I didn't make friends very easily and I was a big reader, so I was very antisocial, and I knew that people were judging me.

An introvert as a child, I spent most of my younger years being bullied for my name. It took its toll on me, and by Class VI, I couldn't even have a proper conversation with anyone.

I was so shy at school that I hardly ever talked, so everybody thought I was kind of a hermit.

I'm shy. I'm not sociable. I'm very insecure.

The biggest problem I have doing my acting is having to interact with other people. I think if it wasn't for my wife and my kids, I'd probably be a hermit.