Stephanie Beacham Quotes

We all fall into our habits, our routines, our ruts. They're used quite often, consciously or unconsciously, to avoid living, to avoid doing the messy part of having relationships with other people, of dealing with a person next to us. That's why we can all be in a room on our cell phones and not have to deal with one another.

I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.

Well, I don't go out much socially. I don't enjoy going out.

I wanted to communicate and connect. I simply didn't seem able to do it.

I would like to believe that I still am a shy person; I am very introverted. I have a problem communicating.

I did not love going out to parties or even get-togethers, really - I went to the movies, which, if you think about it, is an isolating experience anyway - and this was because I had anxiety about interacting with people.

I've missed out on a lot of things, going out with friends.

I get tired of myself pretty fast. So I can't imagine other people don't get tired of me.

I don't do well in social environments.

I just don't get out as much as people think I do.

Not only am I a shy person, I take a little while to say what I mean, especially in a social situation, and usually those move too fast for me to say anything at all.

I was very shy. I didn't really hang around with hearing people very much. Mostly I had deaf friends.

When I was a kid, I never spoke. I would sit under a table and not speak to anybody. No words for years.

I think I am very anti-social.

I miss being able to have a drink in my local pub, which I can't do anymore, or being able to go to the shops without every second person staring at me and looking at my basket to see what I'm buying.

My shyness probably defined the first 30 years of my life, really. It's a crippling thing. It can be very lonely knowing that you've got things to say, but you daren't say them.

My mom is an excellent mom. She knows I am irascible, prickly, and antisocial. She knows that most human interaction makes me tired and that I either scare people away with precise invectives or trot out the fakest, nicest skinjob of myself because it requires zero effort.

I had some social anxiety when I was younger because I wasn't surrounded by many people in my life.

I can't even talk to someone and make eye contact.

I had to live with the models in one big house for two months, 24 hours a day. Only a few of them actually learned how to sign... I couldn't really communicate with anybody, and I felt isolated.

I was a wallflower. I never talked to anybody. I was so afraid of people, I never said a word.

I can be very social, but often, it weighs down on me later that the social thing was a put-on. I feel like my way of dealing with not wanting to go out is, I just don't. I can't bring myself to.

As an adult I've developed better social skills; I know how to do a conversation, I know how to do a party. I find them wearying, though, and I like that in lockdown no one expects me to go to them.

I have very few friends and don't talk much.

I am afraid I am totally hermetic to social games in general.