Yara Shahidi Quotes

I was too shy to go and meet Princess Diana.

Truthfully, I'm incredibly shy, and I'm very awkward around boys.

I don't know what to say when I have a crush on somebody. I kind of lose my words. I really try to start a conversation, and I can't. It's horrible.

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'm awkward around girls.

When the attention is on me, off-camera, I get uncomfortable - sort of shy and at a loss for words, as you can probably tell?

I've admired Anthony Hopkins for so long, and when I finally got to meet him in person, I became totally immobile and speechless! I stood there looking at him and couldn't say a word.

I was a very shy child. I remember being in a kindergarten open house with my mother and children saying 'Hi' to me, and I still remember feeling this way - but I don't know why - but I wouldn't even say 'Hi' back. I was that shy.

I'm too shy, really to be able to hang out with my heroes for too long.

I'm always shy when I meet people I admire so I wouldn't be able to say anything rather than, 'How do you do? Love you! Bye!'

I'm always awkward when someone recognizes me.

I was doing one of my first plays at the Royal Court, and Matt LeBlanc came to see the play. He came backstage afterwards, and I couldn't speak. I kept trying to, but no words came out. I just kept thinking, 'That's Joey from 'Friends.' That's actual Joey from 'Friends!'' It was so embarrassing!

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.

If I'm around a boy I have a crush on, I can't even talk most of the time.

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

I get butterflies before I go out to say hello at a party.

When I was 17, I was so shy I could barely speak or introduce myself to anyone.

I'm so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.

When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.

I really hate being recognised. I'm quite a shy person, and I'm not very good at talking to strangers. So when people come up to me in the street, I just find it quite awkward. I don't really know what to say to them.

I'm not comfortable being around too many people. I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff. So most of the characters I play are people who don't always feel comfortable beyond their small circle of friends.

I'm super shy, especially at parties.

I'm painfully shy.

I'm very shy in a crowd.

What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.