Daniel Handler Quotes

It’s funny—when people call you “shy,” they usually smile. Like it’s cute, some funny little habit you’ll grow out of when you’re older, like the gaps in your grin when your baby teeth fall out. If they knew how it felt—really being shy, not just unsure at first—they wouldn’t smile. Not if they knew how the feeling knots up your stomach or makes your palms sweat or robs you of the ability to say anything that makes sense. It’s not cute at all.

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.

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.

I tend to be sort of quiet and shy and awkward in social situations.

What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.

I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people.

I'm awkward around girls.

I can talk to anybody but when it comes to somebody that I like, then I turn into like this five-year-old kindergartener in a sandbox.

I still get a little nervous when talking to girls. Which is awful, and embarrassing, because I feel like I shouldn't.

I can be shy when I talk to women. I'm a shy dude.

I was painfully shy as a child.

Around people I don't know, I'm totally at a loss.

I'm terribly, horribly shy.

I was very shy. It was kind of scary to meet new people.

I was just painfully shy. I couldn't talk to anyone. Going up in front of class, I would have to mentally prepare myself to raise my hand.

I don't know if I want to walk down the street and have everyone staring. I think that would be awful. I'm a pretty shy person, really.

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

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

I'm so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.

I'm quite shy, so if there's a guy I like, I actually ignore him because I can't speak to him. I get all red and sweaty, and it's embarrassing.

Let's say that, in reality, I'm basically very shy when it comes to men.

The last thing in the world I should have done was go into the theater because was inordinately shy as a young man. I couldn't open my mouth. At a party, I was the one stuck up against the wall. I was embarrassed about talking. I felt that I couldn't talk well.

I was an awkward kid.

I'm painfully shy.

When the attention is on me, off-camera, I get uncomfortable - sort of shy and at a loss for words, as you can probably tell?