Benjamin Clementine Quotes

I wasn't always this introverted.

I didn't overcome my shyness. I am still shy.

I have always been a bit of an introvert. In fact, my dad used to force me to meet people so that my interpersonal skills improve. As an individual, I was happiest when left alone.

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'm quite shy. Really. I'm trying to expand myself as a person more, get involved with people.

I was a chronically shy child. That kernel of my younger self is still there, but I've developed mechanisms to deal with it.

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.

I'm always a little innately shy when I first talk to a girl, and I think I always will be! But I think that's a good thing. You don't want to lose that.

I am innately very shy, and I have struggled with that challenge for years.

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

It's true, I used to be so shy. I used to never talk, just sit back and do my thing. I was never bullied, though, and it was never like it was something that needed to be 'fixed', like being shy is a bad thing.

When I meet people for the first time, I'm friendly but shy. I'm much less outwardly nervous than I used to be, but I still get anxious sometimes.

Believe it or not, I was a pretty shy youngster growing up.

As a kid, I never thought I'd be an actress. Never, ever, ever, no way. I was really shy - bordering on social disorder shy - and I was really academic.

I used to be really insular, really introverted. I couldn't articulate myself.

I don't think I'm particularly shy. I just don't like being front and center as myself.

Overcoming my shyness has been a lifelong struggle.

I was very shy and withdrawn as a child, but people know me as these assertive women. They are not me.

I would like to believe that I still am a shy person; I am very introverted. I have a problem communicating.

I just think that, for my particular personality, feeling slightly invisible is always a help.

Not only am I a shy person, I take a little while to say what I mean, especially in a social situation, and usually those move too fast for me to say anything at all.

As a young guy I was really shy, more shy than I am now.

I find it difficult to talk about myself. I'm just shy.

I'm concerned with the lost, the lonely, the shy. I think shyness is in some ways more widespread now than formerly. I used to be shy myself. Of course, you can't be me now and remain shy, but I remember very well what it felt like.

I've never hidden the fact that I used to be shy, even when I was 30. However, I might have been self-conscious on the inside, but I was never inhibited about my body.