Charles K. Kao Quotes

I've been stopped a few times by people who want to say, 'Hi.' But I'm an introverted person, and the idea that I'd have to talk to people all the time seems a little overwhelming.

I don't like when there's too much conversation because I'm shy and it makes me uncomfortable.

I'm very quiet. I can go a whole week without talking, so doing interviews is really awkward for me!

Spare a thought for the poor introverts among us. In a world of party animals and glad-handers, they're the ones who stand by the punch bowl. In a world of mixers and pub crawls, they prefer to stay home with a book. Everywhere around them, cell phones ring and e-mails chime and they just want a little quiet.

I've always been quiet, for the most part, especially any time I've come into a new environment.

I was an introvert.

At one point in college I was so shy that I'd drop out of a class if asked to speak in front of other people.

I can go in front of an orchestra. I can go in front of an audience. But if you see me walking through an audience in the reception or through a lot of people, I'm still shy.

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

I'm shy, but I'm not clinically shy. I don't have social anxiety disorder or anything like that. I more have a gentle shyness. Like, I have a little trouble mingling at parties.

My mum will not speak above a low whisper in public because she doesn't want to draw attention to herself.

I'm a super-introverted person.

I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.

I remember in second grade, everybody in the class had to come up with adjectives for each other, and I got shy. In a way, I force myself to perform, because if I didn't, I'd stay home rolled up in a ball watching 'The Real Housewives of Orange County' all day.

I tend to be sort of quiet and shy and awkward in social situations.

Stage-persona notwithstanding, I'm extremely shy and quiet. Almost painfully shy. People misinterpret that as being above it all or not interested.

Some people love being onstage and really open up, and I'm sort of the opposite of that. I don't crave the spotlight. I'm still not comfortable even talking onstage.

I've always been kind of an introvert growing up.

I'm shy in my personal life.

I hate parties. I really don't like public events. I hate dressing up. I am the worst celebrity ever!

If I go to a seminar and someone like you or someone like him is talking, I'm never part of the group that rushes him directly afterward. I always wait in the back corner with my head down until everyone is gone, and then I go up and do my thing.

I've always been shy.

It's kind of weird - I get shy when I'm around new people, still, even when I'm onstage. I come from not really wanting to be in lights or known or in front of people.

Everyone at school knew who my dad was. It made me a little self-conscious a little introverted because I had a lot of attention drawn towards me, but in a way I guess it gives you a little bit of a celebrity skin, even though I wasn't a celebrity.

Basically, I'm a shy human being. Very introverted.