Cornelia Parker Quotes

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

I'm not very cool. I have a really hard time meeting people and stuff.

I have always been a bit of an introvert. In fact, my dad used to force me to meet people so that my interpersonal skills improve. As an individual, I was happiest when left alone.

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 know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

I want to resume the life of a shy person.

I absolutely hated high school. As a freshman, I was 5 feet tall and weighed 95 pounds... When I got to high school, I had no social skills. Was I a nerd? More of a dork. Definitely not one of the popular kids.

I was very introverted. You know, I had my close group of friends, but I really didn't care what the cool kids were doing.

Believe it or not, I was a pretty shy youngster growing up.

I was very shy and socially awkward.

As a young guy I was really shy, more shy than I am now.

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

I was very much a late bloomer. That's not to say that girls didn't express interest in me from time to time, but I just, I did not know how to respond to that.

I was a shy kid, a late bloomer. At 22, I was probably 16 emotionally.

I don't get as much female attention as you'd think, because I never go out.

I'm really not that comfortable with people. I mean, I love individuals, but I'm not very social.

I was always the kid at the side of the playground, looking at the other kids. I didn't know how to get into the group. I was quiet and bookish, a bit of a geek. I was into orienteering when my friends were out clubbing.

I was an only child, and my mom threw me into some modeling classes to get me out of my shell.

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

I've always been a geek and slightly awkward... slightly umm... I was never the cool kid at school.

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 chronically shy child. That kernel of my younger self is still there, but I've developed mechanisms to deal with it.

I was very shy. I'm still shy.

I was a friend during school time, but not much after that. By the time I got to BYU, I was a social mess, an absolute misfit. There is not a shyer, more pathetic kid who stepped on that BYU campus than me.