Joel Madden Quotes

Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I'm not the most outgoing person.

I'm not the person in person that I am on stage.

Just because you can leap off a drum kit doing a scissors kick while hitting a chord, people expect you to be an extrovert socially. But I'm not always comfortable with the idea of small talk at a party.

At my very core, I'm pretty shy. I just happen to have a weird job.

I always thought I was a little shy, especially compared to my brother and my sister, but I guess I was always the kid doing performances in the front room.

I'm much less shy in conversation than I am on my own.

For me, there's no dichotomy between being shy or a performer, because I think it's more a way of slightly presenting a version of things to the world.

I am, by nature, pretty reserved. It was after I became an actor that I started interacting more with people from different walks of life!

As a kid, I was really shy. Technically I am still, but when I'm performing I want everybody to listen.

Growing up, I was so shy, but it was weird because I was the complete opposite on stage. I was just free to be myself.

People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong.

I'm probably the most introverted extrovert you'll ever meet. Up until I got this show I was constantly told, 'She was really good, but she's just not cute enough.'

I'm shy. I am. I mean, if I get around, you know, in a room of a bunch of people especially I - you know, I don't know or - it takes me a while to warm up. I'm - and the real me, I'm not as witty as, you know, as the comic Wanda. The comic, she's had time to work on some things.

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.

It was very natural for me to want to disappear into dark theater, I am really very shy. That is something that people never seem to fully grasp because, when you are an actor, you are meant to be an exhibitionist.

I don't perform well in private. Socially, I mean. And I didn't as a child. Actors aren't necessarily outgoing, are they?

I'm hideously shy as myself, but on stage I can run around naked and bite the heads off fish.

I've always been the DJ or the bass player or the drummer, somebody in the background. I don't think anybody who knows me personally would say that I'm particularly shy or introverted, but I'm definitely not like Mr. Attention.

I'm not extremely outgoing, but I'm average, I think. When people meet me they'll say, 'Oh you're not that shy...' I never said I was! I see where they're coming from because my biggest single was about being shy at a party - I get it. But it's not 100% accurate.

Maybe come to think about it, that is the sign of an extrovert, in any event I have always from the earliest of ages found it difficult to wander into a restaurant on my own.

I think any branding for me is band-related. It's really weird to get used to the exposure, because I am a naturally introverted person, and I'm not exactly social. Occasionally I can get comfortable enough to talk, but I spend a lot of my days not talking, especially when I'm at home and not on tour.

Inherently, I'm not a huge extrovert, so I actually find interviews and all the glamour to be a bit challenging sometimes.

I'm shy, but not on a one-to-one basis. Over the years, I have become acclimatised to a bit of publicity.

It was an interesting process trying to get Bob to talk about the film because he's such a shy person. He generally likes to talk when he really knows he has something to say.

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