Shane Dawson Quotes

I'm not confident in social situations; just going up to someone in a bar and saying 'Hi' is going to be even more difficult because they won't know the real me. They will just know me as a fictional person I play on the screen.

I was so shy. I used to cross the street so I wouldn't even have to talk to my relatives, much less strangers. That's not shy, that's wise. But I found that that when you had a journalist's notebook in your hand it wasn't really you, you see.

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

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'm pretty shy when I go home because I was pretty shy growing up, and I think I go back to that person.

I'm not shy in the spotlight. I might seem austere and even arrogant, but far from it, I'm actually shy.

I used to be terribly shy, so I was either shy or over the top, and I always had a difficult time.

I'm very shy. I wish more people believed me when I say that.

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.

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

I wasn't a naturally confident, extravert, outgoing person.

And I think that, of course, there is some dysfunction of needing to be liked or noticed or to feel part of things, something going on there for most actors. For some there's not and I think they really struggle with it.

I was always the poor kid, even though I very much tried to pretend to be the other way. Always well presented. Always really active in the school, doing fashion shows, plays, involved in every single aspect of the school. Overcompensating, I think, for the fact that I knew I wouldn't be going on the ski trip every January.

I was a painfully shy person in my pre-acting days.

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

I grew up walking out with no music. I wish I had the bottle to dance on but I can't dance.

Let's say that, in reality, I'm basically very shy when it comes to men.

I've never had friends, and I don't like to be around big groups of people.

I'm a shy person. I don't know if it's in my DNA to share with the world.

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'm not as shy as everybody makes me out to be.

I still have shy qualities but nobody would believe that, just because we're in the forefront and I can talk a lot of mess and I can run my mouth.

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

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

There's something about being rejected - when I go out without my friends, I'm reminded of how I'm actually quite antisocial. I don't look like a guy who feels like that, but it's very hard for me to start up a conversation. At a party, I'm lost.