Clea Duvall Quotes

I was one of those weird children that just couldn't talk to people, so I kind of had to make myself be not like that because I knew it was going to hinder me.

Overcoming my shyness has been a lifelong struggle.

As a young guy I was really shy, more shy than I am now.

I've never hidden the fact that I used to be shy, even when I was 30. However, I might have been self-conscious on the inside, but I was never inhibited about my body.

I'm still a shy person. I've learned to put that aside on certain occasions. I have to. It's part of my job.

I'm quite shy. Really. I'm trying to expand myself as a person more, get involved with people.

I never particularly thought of myself as great with girls. I can be awkward, and I have a strange sense of humor at times. But I've also been learning to try and embrace that.

I'm always a little innately shy when I first talk to a girl, and I think I always will be! But I think that's a good thing. You don't want to lose that.

I was shy when I was a kid, I was very shy, but now I think I've improved a lot. I can speak OK with the media and with the people. My English is still bad but I feel a little bit better now than before.

My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

I used to be really insular, really introverted. I couldn't articulate myself.

My worst trait is that I'm an introvert. When I've led stuff, the hardest thing for me to overcome has been my natural desire to run and hide. I'm very proud of the fact that I have been able to do that.

Maybe almost 20 years ago, I was like, 'God, I need to be more direct.' And I found times that I could practice it when it was maybe not my family or friends or co-workers. It's a quality that's rarely disliked.

I didn't know how to get along with others. I didn't even know how to be in the same room with other people. Then, after a while, you learn.

Out of frustration, I say things. Now, people listen to me so much I can say it under my breath and everybody hears me... I said in the past that I'm a work in progress, and I feel like I'm progressing.

Now I can walk into a room full of people I don't know and do my job. That's quite a massive thing to learn, I think.

I'm hopeless at small talk and have a problem making eye contact.

I was always really shy so I'd never try to get a guy's attention.

I'm still insecure, but when I first started acting, I was really insecure. I glared at a lot of people. I assumed everyone hated me. Somehow that scowl has turned into an acting career.

I was painfully shy when I was a kid. I always thought when most people were born, part of the toolkit was teaching you how to relate to other people - and it was just left out of my toolkit.

I was painfully shy for a long time. I mean, that's something I really had to work my way out of. And I really think it was because, after the 2008 Olympics, I spent a whole year bartending. It was the one thing that really forced me to be just not so scared to start conversations with strangers.

I need to learn to be more assertive.

Let's just say that I have a tendency if I am uncomfortable in a situation to speak my mind.

I am innately very shy, and I have struggled with that challenge for years.

Social interactions have always been a bit of a difficult thing for me. I think I have a natural tendency to make people not 100 percent super comfortable.