Anne Hathaway Quotes

I'm quite shy. Really. I'm trying to expand myself as a person more, get involved with people.

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

I didn't overcome my shyness. I am still shy.

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 am innately very shy, and I have struggled with that challenge for years.

Overcoming my shyness has been a lifelong struggle.

I'm concerned with the lost, the lonely, the shy. I think shyness is in some ways more widespread now than formerly. I used to be shy myself. Of course, you can't be me now and remain shy, but I remember very well what it felt like.

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.

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

Socially, I think I'm quite comfortable; I enjoy chatting to people... but I do have my quirks.

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 went to the Glasgow Youth Theatre and they just let me in. But I was so shy that I was there for about six weeks without actually introducing myself.

I wasn't always this introverted.

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.

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

I want to resume the life of a shy person.

I'm not good at meeting people, and I'm not good at small talk.

I have a really hard time meeting people, so I wanted to take classes to get out of my social shell. Eventually, I opened up and realized, 'Wow, I really enjoy this.'

I'm always a little innately shy when I first talk to a girl, and I think I always will be! But I think that's a good thing. You don't want to lose that.

Shyness is inherently uncomfortable; introversion is not. The traits do overlap, though psychologists debate to what degree.

My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

Social interactions have always been a bit of a difficult thing for me. I think I have a natural tendency to make people not 100 percent super comfortable.

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.

It's true, I used to be so shy. I used to never talk, just sit back and do my thing. I was never bullied, though, and it was never like it was something that needed to be 'fixed', like being shy is a bad thing.