George Groves Quotes

I was terribly shy and never said anything in class. Then I started getting into school plays. When you've got words to say, you've got a sort of armour.

I loved acting as a kid because I was kind of shy, so it brought me out of myself.

I always try to be myself. Ever since I was an introverted kid, I'd get on stage and be able to break out of my shell.

I didn't start singing with my eyes open until I was 19 - that's how shy I was!

I was super shy as a kid, and theater was a way that everything made sense to me.

I was a very shy kid. Very shy. But I started doing theatre when I was six years old, and that really changed something. My more playful side came out of me.

I never used to speak at all. I always said Joe is the speaker of the family. I mean, I'd go to events and volunteer, but I was never a speaker.

I realize now that it's important that I share my story... Also, it'll be easy for me to do an interview, to interact with people.

I was a shy kid and acting did bring me out of my shell during high school.

I've learned the importance of speaking up for myself and voicing my opinions and my ideas. I'm definitely a shy person.

It took awhile for me to get used to speaking candidly about my own life. I got into it, and it turned out to be a wonderful experience.

I was a painfully shy person in my pre-acting days.

My mother sent me to speech classes, but the other kids still teased me. I was shy. I stooped. Instead of talking, I kept journals. That's where my love of words comes from. I majored in journalism.

As a kid, I was always very shy growing up - I wasn't very good at articulating my thoughts or my feelings. Now that I'm older, I found acting to do that. So it's been an amazing way to sort of express who I am.

As a little girl, I was always shy, but in front of the camera I wasn't.

I think acting has helped me come out of my shell because when I play a character, I can't be self-conscious.

In general, questions are fine; you can always seize upon the parts of them that interest you and concentrate on answering those. And one has to remember when answering questions that asking questions isn't easy either, and for someone who's quite shy to stand up in an audience to speak takes some courage.

It was a big step, to go from not talking to people to stepping on to a stage. That's when I felt the most comfortable, because I could do anything I wanted to and say anything I wanted to, even if people didn't laugh.

When I was working on pictures with my father, there were a couple leading ladies to whom I wish I'd expressed how I felt rather than being too cool or too shy.

Rugby gave me a confidence. I was quite shy and relatively timid, but it gave me the confidence to be a little bit more out-going and back myself a bit more.

I could be myself. I'm very shy and awkward. I think the best thing is to embrace it.

Even within the last three or four years, I have a greater ability to communicate, I think. I have more courage to show the stuff... And it does take courage.

I'm always curious about anyone who has enough passion to go onstage and say, 'This is what I'm really passionate about.' It's always worth listening to.

I struggle to come up to people and say what I think.

I was just very shy. I was never anxious to do talk shows, as I didn't know what to say. And I don't feel I have any inherent interest. But as I'm getting older, I feel I want to be able to share whatever I know if it means something to someone.