Bob Mortimer Quotes

I was painfully shy as a child.

I get so nervous. I happen to be socially awkward and shy. I spent a lot of my time as an adult not going places.

I was nervous to even talk to other kids in my class. I would hide in my room when my parents had people over.

I was a wallflower. I never talked to anybody. I was so afraid of people, I never said a word.

I was definitely the kid in the back of the class with his head down the whole time not wanting to speak up and say anything.

I'm shy. I'm not sociable. I'm very insecure.

I'm shy and can't for the life of me barge around and slap people on the back. I sit in a corner by myself and am tickled to death when someone comes over to talk to me.

I just don't have this magnetic personality that everyone is drawn to. I don't make friends easily... I'm just not one of those people.

I was almost tragically shy, like, clinically. I should've been admitted somewhere. I think my parents knew, but maybe they didn't think much about it. It's hard walking the Earth shy. You miss out on a lot.

I sense from people that they get frustrated with me for not being out and about. But I guess I'm a shy boy.

What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.

I was regarded as the school freak which further reinforced a lot of inhibitions and doubts I had about myself. I was a shy, frightened teenager for a long time.

In talking, shyness and timidity distort the very meaning of my words. I don't pretend to know anybody well. People are like shadows to me and I am like a shadow.

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.

Childhood was very nice. The only thing wrong was that I was so introverted, everything became a big deal... 'Oh, no, here comes the bus. Where am I gonna sit on the bus?'

There is something strange about me. I don't ever feel at ease in a group of people. I have to fight hard to overcome my fears.

I was the kind of kid, I'd sit in the back row of the class with my head practically under the desk. I was incredibly afraid of people and very shy.

I was very shy and socially awkward.

In grammar school, I didn't talk. Everybody said I was the invisible one. I'm still very shy.

I had some social anxiety when I was younger because I wasn't surrounded by many people in my life.

I tended to be the nerdy kid - stood at the back, watching other people having fun - I wasn't always necessarily a big part of the fun myself.

There are times when I'm kind of anti-social, I'm just really shy, and I don't feel like I fit in, and I then attribute that to some emotional state that's crippling me.

I was a very shy and introverted person, and it was hard for me to talk to people and make relationships.

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.

When I was younger, I used to be super, super shy. I still find myself being scared of things.