Josh Groban Quotes

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.

I was extremely shy. I am still shy, but I won't show it on stage.

Kids made fun of me because I was a slow learner, because I was hyperactive, because of a lot of things. Running gave me confidence.

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.

One place that I really feel comfortable is being a comedienne. I'm very socially inept. There's so many things that I can not do in life, and this is, like, the one thing that I have mastery over. It's my world. And anybody who's coming to the show, it's like they're coming because they know that this is my world.

Now I can walk into a room full of people I don't know and do my job. That's quite a massive thing to learn, I think.

I'm hopeless at small talk and have a problem making eye contact.

When I was younger, I was nervous and didn't have a huge amount of confidence as an actor. Comedy is something - you know when you're getting it right because you can hear. And you can hear if you're not getting it right! I like to create interesting, weird characters, and they're often best in comedies.

The truth of the matter is that I used to be much more - as it were - shy. Now I don't care!

I'm not really a flirt; I just try to be myself.

I would admit I'm an introvert. I don't know why introverts have to apologize.

I made sure that instead of people making fun of me, like every comedian probably says, I made fun of myself first so they would get distracted and just laugh. I was pretty brutally picked on for a while growing up. It was always the really pretty girls, the hot girls and then there was me. So I had to do something to get any sort of attention.

I've never really told jokes. I'm not good at it.

I'd buy joke books and try doing them at school; I always had jokes. That would be my go-to thing at parties: I'd be able to get through them if I just told enough jokes. Otherwise, I wouldn't end up talking to anybody.

I've gotten over my shyness from many years of doing public events.

The first time I ever did a play, in junior high school, I said to myself, 'Hey, people like me doing this. I'm making them laugh.'

When someone is bullying you, don't let it get to you. I remember my friends in school, someone said something mean to them, and they really let it get to them. And it really affected them. But I would just say try to ignore it as much as possible and just be yourself.

And like the old stereotype, I overcame my shyness by making my friends laugh.

I went to stage school with a neighbor to build confidence because I was quite shy.

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 was shy when I was a kid, I was very shy, but now I think I've improved a lot. I can speak OK with the media and with the people. My English is still bad but I feel a little bit better now than before.

I mean I can do it when I'm very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing.

In high school, I was too shy to perform. It's one thing to get laughs from your family, to be funny at parties and in class. It's another thing to get up on the stage.

I'm shy, but not on a one-to-one basis. Over the years, I have become acclimatised to a bit of publicity.

I was a pretty insecure kid, didn't have a lot of friends, and was picked on a lot, and music gave me confidence.