Taylor Swift Quotes

Lots of shy people dress a bit too much. It's just kind of an armour. People say the same thing about me.

I used to feel so shy speaking to girls. It was even worse when they were around their crew because they would diss me.

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

It's difficult to talk to people... I walk into a room and I'm Danielle Steel, and whatever I say is going to be taken apart.

Nobody's just arrogant. I've met people who are embattled and dismissive, but when you get to know them, you find that they're vulnerable - that that hauteur or standoffishiness is because they're pedaling furiously underneath.

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

A teenager usually wants to try to get people to notice him in some way, to feel like someone gives a damn. Me, all that attention, I just wanted to fade into the background. Be invisible. Disappear.

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

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.

They say shyness is a form of egotism, and you are only shy because you care too much about what people think of you. And maybe its true, maybe I am just an egotist.

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.

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.

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

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.

Shyness is just egoism out of its depth.

I find it's usually the bullies who are the most insecure.

What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.

I like not being noticed. It has been a struggle because I love performing, but if I'm in a group of people and someone has a bigger personality, I'm like, 'Go ahead, and have fun!'

I was painfully shy when I was a kid. I always thought when most people were born, part of the toolkit was teaching you how to relate to other people - and it was just left out of my toolkit.

I'm shy in my personal life.

I was a nervous kid, not great socially.

I sometimes lack confidence in public, although I am proud enough inwardly.

It's hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I'm talking to them.

At school I was very shy and coincidentally inherited the title 'little miss worry guts,' and that was just among the staff. I learned early on that I could make people laugh, and as my small neat body betrayed me by growing to dizzying heights, I used it as a tool that translated into complete slap-stick comedy.

I was very shy. I'm still shy.