Todd Haynes Quotes

I'm usually too shy to write on planes because I assume that everyone on board is as nosy as I am and will look over my shoulder and read what I'm writing.

I don't know if I want to walk down the street and have everyone staring. I think that would be awful. I'm a pretty shy person, really.

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

The last thing in the world I should have done was go into the theater because was inordinately shy as a young man. I couldn't open my mouth. At a party, I was the one stuck up against the wall. I was embarrassed about talking. I felt that I couldn't talk well.

I've generally got low levels of embarrassment.

For some reason, people look at me and laugh. I don't know why.

Have you ever gotten the feeling that you aren't completely embarassed yet, but you glimpse tomorrow's embarrassment?

I was really enjoying one of the screenings of 'Beautiful Creatures' and there was this little 14-year-old boy sitting next to me in the screening and I was laughing at all the jokes and I just felt really judged. I had to keep it down a bit. It's a bit embarrassing.

I get embarrassed a lot of times getting attention, but I like being onstage. Do you know what I mean? If I'm in a crowd of people and they're all looking at me, I will feel embarrassed. It's a strange dichotomy.

Shyness is just egoism out of its depth.

What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.

Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.

I'm quite sensitive to people noticing me. There are times when I'm relaxed, then others when it does make me self-conscious.

I never sing out loud because I'm afraid people will go, 'Shut up!'

I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people.

It's hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I'm talking to them.

I can talk to anybody but when it comes to somebody that I like, then I turn into like this five-year-old kindergartener in a sandbox.

I have this complex that if I walk into a place wearing a colorful shirt someone will stop me and say, 'I'm sorry, but the Latin band comes through the other door.'

Strangers still leave me self-conscious.

People would look at me weird. You know, like, 'Why is this guy's hands always in his pockets?' But I was embarrassed by the size of my hands.

We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.

I'm always shy and timid when I write in front of people.

I can't walk down the street with my head up. I'm not a hat wearer, but now I'm a hat wearer.

I wasn't into anything at school. I used to get really embarrassed. I used to get asked to do performing things, and I'd go to all the rehearsals, and then I'd pretend to be ill on the day I had to actually perform. I was very unhappy at school.

I've always been uncomfortable, so to speak, when the focus is on me.