Roberto Firmino Quotes

I'm someone who is quite shy, and onstage I'm quite... extrovert.

Growing up, I was so shy, but it was weird because I was the complete opposite on stage. I was just free to be myself.

I'm generally a fairly shy, withheld person. But when I get onstage, I get a bit mad.

I wasn't always this introverted.

I'm caught somewhere between introversion and extroversion. Performance is natural to me, joyful, but it is also exhausting. I can feed on it, but the expense is high, too, like being a carnivore: I have to chase down my meals.

I think I was very shy and introverted when I was younger, and yet, when I got in front of the camera or went out on the town, I was able to go out half-naked and do anything.

I was a shy little girl, nothing like what I am now.

I am happiest in public, working in my world. Then I can be the star. That I can do. When I am not working, I am more guarded, set apart. It's not my life, that. I like interactions, but interaction that is not forced.

In regard to performing, it couldn't be funnier that I ended up being an actor, because I'm really shy. Unless I'm really comfortable with a person.

I got into performing fairly young and went from, like, a shy kid to a total weirdo.

I feel like a different, more outgoing person once I take the field.

I am, by nature, pretty reserved. It was after I became an actor that I started interacting more with people from different walks of life!

I was a very quiet, shy child. I just became quite talkative in high school, in Grade 10 onwards.

I'm an introvert and a shy person.

At Sunderland, all the girls knew each other. I wasn't that extroverted person to go join in. I was a little bit in my shell. But as soon as I started kicking a football, it was fine.

I like jokes and one-liners. I enjoy entertaining and making people laugh, being the funny man. But when I'm launched into unfamiliar environments I shut down, and as I relax then my character emerges.

I do think that you can dress yourself out of a problem. The way that a haircut and a new pair of pants can make you feel is better than any therapist, because when you look in the mirror, you see a different person - you are a different person. It's superficial change that can lead to real change.

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

At my very core, I'm pretty shy. I just happen to have a weird job.

It seems like a contradiction, but the shy person who is a performer actually does make sense, because in a way, when you're young and shy, making people laugh is a good way to make friends. It's an instant connection.

I was very, very shy in public and school, and quite loud and brash at home.

Not a lot of people know me outside of athletics and believe it or not I am actually quite shy. The exhilaration of a win or tears after falling are the extremes. It takes me a while to get to know someone, but once I do I am very loyal to my old friends.

I'm not the person in person that I am on stage.

I always thought I was a little shy, especially compared to my brother and my sister, but I guess I was always the kid doing performances in the front room.

I come from a big, loud family, and I'm the quieter one. Performing is something I have to switch on. I've heard I get real sassy onstage, which I'm not in real life! It's fun to be that person for an hour a night.