Kimora Lee Simmons Quotes

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

I was painfully shy for a long time. I mean, that's something I really had to work my way out of. And I really think it was because, after the 2008 Olympics, I spent a whole year bartending. It was the one thing that really forced me to be just not so scared to start conversations with strangers.

Overcoming my shyness has been a lifelong struggle.

When I was younger, I barely talked. I was scared of people. I had to learn how to cultivate that confidence.

I was extremely shy, but since college, I think I have opened up and gained confidence. I find it much easier to make friends, I let myself go a bit more.

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

I started when I was in college because I was shy and thought it would be a good way to break out of that.

I was painfully shy, so my aunt suggested to my mum that me and my brother go to Stage 84, a performing arts school in Yorkshire. I've probably romanticised it in my head, but I seem to remember that in the space of an hour's drama workshop, I was transformed. I went in really shy, and I came out full of confidence.

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've gotten better at not making people feel uncomfortable with my shyness.

I was one of those weird children that just couldn't talk to people, so I kind of had to make myself be not like that because I knew it was going to hinder me.

I'm not great... in large groups of people, but I'm not shy anymore.

I used to be very shy, much more so than I am now. It's great that I've improved in that regard. Every day, I'm getting better and less... embarrassed.

Back in 2011, I was kind of shy. I wasn't as good because that was the year, also, when I started playing basketball.

Do not to be as shy around girls, because they're probably just as shy and just as scared as you are.

The best advice I never got. I don't know if it would have done any good, but to be more confident with girls in school. I actually had a couple of girlfriends, but I was still pretty timid and it was hard to ask girls out.

I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness ... Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.

Growing up, sports was my outlet, my way to portray a personality. I was very shy around people but, through sports, something I was good at, I was able to make friends.

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.

Dance really built my confidence on stage. I'm still a shy person. But I have a lot more confidence than I did when I started.

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 painfully shy person in my pre-acting days.

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

I'm still a shy person. I've learned to put that aside on certain occasions. I have to. It's part of my job.