Rory O'Malley Quotes

When I was a kid, and for many years after, I was your classic afraid-to-dance-type person.

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.

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 was always shy and had a huge fear of being onstage.

I feel shy when people are fussing on me.

I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don't like the front, the adulation.

I get really nervous when I'm performing or meeting new people.

I can be a really awkward frontman on stage.

I was just painfully shy. I couldn't talk to anyone. Going up in front of class, I would have to mentally prepare myself to raise my hand.

I didn't like being out in the limelight. I love performing, but that's it.

I am very shy on set. I don't talk much.

Some introverts are perfectly comfortable with public speaking; I'm not one of them.

I can go in front of an orchestra. I can go in front of an audience. But if you see me walking through an audience in the reception or through a lot of people, I'm still shy.

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

I've never been interested in the event when I'm the center of attention.

I was an awkward kid.

I'm a very shy person and I never tried to do theater.

I'm not good at interacting with people and am terrified to get onstage, so I just go up there, freak out and, most of the time, pack up and go home immediately after.

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

I tend to be sort of quiet and shy and awkward in social situations.

Some people love being onstage and really open up, and I'm sort of the opposite of that. I don't crave the spotlight. I'm still not comfortable even talking onstage.

I am honestly very intimidated when I meet new people and they expect me to be the onscreen Vir. On stage, I say a lot of things I might never say in real life; I am never the life of the party. People are quite surprised to see that I am more of a quiet artiste off stage.

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 awkward around girls.

I can talk to anybody but when it comes to somebody that I like, then I turn into like this five-year-old kindergartener in a sandbox.