Javier Bardem Quotes

I am really a very shy person. If I appear, it is because of the music, not because I want to be seen.

I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is.

I'm an introvert at heart... And show business - even though I've loved it so much - has always been hard for me.

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'm not the guy who bursts into the room. I'm the most insecure person you'll meet if you get to know me.

I'm too shy to do kissing scenes.

I'd been shy since childhood, constantly full of self-doubt. And as an actor, I'd been so scared of failing that I made my career - and myself - a big joke.

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

I've had some ambivalent feelings about being an actor. I don't know that I've ever been totally and completely comfortable with it.

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

I'm a little more shy and not comfortable dancing in front of a large crowd.

And I was very shy as a kid; if you sang me 'Happy Birthday,' I would cry. Quite shy. So the idea of being an actor, much less a model, was just out of this world.

My problem with being an actor was that I was far too shy to actually do it.

When the attention is on me, off-camera, I get uncomfortable - sort of shy and at a loss for words, as you can probably tell?

I'm reasonably easygoing. Messing up my lines or making a fool of myself is where you find my fears. Like a lot of English people, I'm prey to embarrassment - the dread that everyone's sort of sniggering at you, that you're going to look like an idiot. I think that sort of halts us all.

I'm not a natural performer or exhibitionist. When I was younger, I hated the focus, and it made me feel strange.

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

You know what my greatest personal stumbling block is? My shyness.

Actors, by very definition, we want people to pay attention to us, and so usually, that comes in the package of insecurity. So if we're not comfortable, we don't really show you a lot.

I could never imagine myself acting in front of a camera or doing anything in front of the camera. I was a very shy girl.

The make-up and the costumes were me being scared. I needed to create a boundary between me and the audience. To project this bigger version of myself. Outwardly, it looked good, but inwardly, I began to feel horrible.

I was always the shy one around, I wouldn't sing even in family gatherings.

Not comfortable doing song and dance stuff as no normal person does in his/her real life.

It is strange: I love to be in front of the audience, but I have this opposite side that is afraid of meeting people, that doesn't want to talk. I feel it's like having a little hard stone inside me of problems, doubts, and shyness.

I was very shy about acting. I thought you had to be confident. I was confident with my friends, but I would never think of acting in front of anyone else.