Sally Hawkins Quotes

I'm shy. I'm not sociable. I'm very insecure.

I am not made to be pulled into the public as a person. I feel threatened there.

When I avoided interviews, it was mainly because I didn't want to speak only about my personal life.

I'm actually quite a shy person and it's becoming clearer to me. Sometimes I would like to disappear, maybe only for an hour.

I found myself getting more publicly shy when the gala events and big crowds started. Some people embrace it. To me, it's not worth enough to risk my private life being public.

I don't like a lot of attention. That's kind of who I am at heart. So I see everything, the people circulating around me and a lot of people know me - it kind of feels like a heavy weight sometimes.

To be honest, I find going out pretty scary and intimidating. Got all those people checking you out, with only one purpose: hooking up. I'm quite the dork, I'd rather sit home and play Scrabble. But that doesn't get you a girl, does it?

I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.

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.

I had become shy of life's bustle in my solitary retreat and was apprehensive at the thought of facing the world.

I think we all feel like misfits when we open our mouth sometimes, you know?

There is a shyness about me, and I really need to get out more.

I'm not coping very well with all the attention, if I'm honest.

You're always tellin' me to go out more, Go ahead, get out and see the world, But then I think, why should I? I'd rather stay home and cry.

Disorder makes me feel at ease if I'm alone, embarrassed if I'm not.

Touring is just not normal for me. My personality is to never ever talk to people if I can help it.

I'm self-loathing, introverted, and neurotic.

My greatest fear is to be misunderstood.

Weird people follow you in the streets, you can't sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone.

Nothing terrifies me more than being social.

We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world.

I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.

I was painfully shy as a child.

I get so nervous. I happen to be socially awkward and shy. I spent a lot of my time as an adult not going places.