Shyness quotes

“Truth is, all my life I've really always been very shy around people. I guess I try to make up for that by making as many friends as I could.”
Nick Nolte - Seymour Flint

“- Mari Hoff: You might feel shy.
- Ray Say: But there's nothing wrong with being shy at first.
- Mari Hoff: It's natural that.
- Ray Say: Had a girl recently, wouldn't say boo to a goose. Now she's topping the bill at the reform club.”

Brenda Blethyn - Mari Hoff
Sir Michael Caine - Ray Say

“- Carol Connelly: No, no no, absolutely not. I'm a lot more shy than people think. I give off the wrong impression.
- Simon Bishop: I have to. I haven't sketched anything in weeks.
- Carol Connelly: Stop staring. Do a vase.
- Simon Bishop: But you're beautiful, Carol. Your skin, your long neck, the back, the line of you. You're why cavemen...” (continue)(continue reading)

Julie Benz - Carol Connelly
Greg Kinnear - Simon Bishop

“- Allen Bauer: Why wouldn't you let me in?
- Madison: I was... shy.
- Allen Bauer: You were shy? After the cab, the elevator, and on top of the refrigerator, you were shy?
- Madison: I was shy.”

Tom Hanks - Allen Bauer
Daryl Hannah - Madison

“With a prompter in every cellar window whispering comebacks, shy people would have the last laugh.”
André Dussollier - Narrator

- Young Faline: He's kinda bashful, isn't he, mama?
- Aunt Ena: Well, maybe he wouldn't be, if you'd say "hello".
Cammie King Conlon - Young Faline

“You went in there to get a date and came out with a dog. That's bad even for you.”

Bill Murray - Garfield

“Kate... I know you think I'm an idiot but I'm not really like that. It's only when I'm around wom... around you. I'm sorry. Normally, I'm quite normal. But whenever I'm in the presence of a lady my fingers turn into thumbs, my brain switches off...”
Marius Weyers - Andrew Steyn

“- Buzz Lightyear: Ma'am? I, uh, um, well, I just wanted to say you're a bright young woman with a beautiful yarn full of hair. A hair full of yarn. It's ah... um... I must go.
- Jessie the Yodeling Cowgirl: Well aren't you just the sweetest space toy I ever did meet!”
Tim Allen - Buzz Lightyear
Joan Cusack - Jessie the Yodeling Cowgirl

“- Sophia Gold: Oh my God! America just told me that the neighbors are coming!
- Sally Therrian: And here they are!
- Sophia Gold: Oh! And she was just saying how happy you were to finally have them over! Because the two of you are so... introspective and shy. Should have done it ages ago, basically.”
Phoebe Cates - Sophia Gold
Jennifer Jason Leigh - Sally Therrian

“This is key to understand the myth of male shyness. For while you think he is flattering you, he is actually flattering himself. Showing how open and honest and sensitive he is.”
Ashley Judd - Jane Goodale

“- Deep Voiced Lucy: How about a pit-stop?
- Owen Templeton: Sorry, this is a one way flight. There's a bathroom in the back.
- Deep Voiced Lucy: The latch is broken. Anyone could just walk right in.
- Owen Templeton: So? Look, you ain't got nothin' these other Lucys haven't seen before.
- Deep Voiced Lucy: Not necessarily.”

Christopher Peterson - Deep Voiced Lucy
Cuba Gooding Jr. - Owen Templeton

“What Jesus fails to appreciate is that it's the meek who are the problem.”
John Marwood Cleese - Reg

“- Rosie: I'll be a beautiful young woman, and you be Robbie. Now, ask me out.
- Robbie Hart: You know, I'm really not comfortable...
- Rosie: Hello, sir. Was there something you wanted to ask me?
- Robbie Hart: Fine. Would you like to go out on a date with me?
- Rosie: No. Your penis is too small.”

Ellen Albertini Dow - Rosie
Adam Sandler - Robbie Hart