Chesley Sullenberger quote: "I'm less shy now than I was as a kid. After Flight 1549, my family and I had to become public figures and more complete versions of ourselves. I had to teach myself to become an effective public speaker."

We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our t...
JOHN SLADEK

I got into writing to become a 'Star Trek' writer. I was a rabid fan. I had shelves and shel...
BRYAN FULLER

After four tortured years, more than 400 over life-sized figures, I felt as old and as weary as Jere...
MICHELANGELO

I'm a horrible public speaker.
BILL CONDON

I'm much more shy than most of my family.
TALIA BALSAM

I'm afraid I'm still trying to find that balance. Especially now that everyone wants a piece...
SANDRA CISNEROS

The Athenians had an oath for someone who was about to become a citizen. They had to swear that '...
RICHARD ROGERS

I think I'm just like a lot of people who had nothing. We had to amuse ourselves, so we had to b...
ALEC BALDWIN

I had a kind of tough early life. I had a tough time in school. I had an unsympathetic family in ter...
THOMAS MCGUANE

I felt more comfortable playing other people than being myself, when I was a kid. And then, the tabl...
JAY RYAN

My family has had to become quite understanding about me not returning phone calls when I'm film...
ANNA KENDRICK

I had to set a goal for the conference and my goal was to meet people and become friends. I met that...
IVAN FLORES

When I decided to run for Congress, I saw it as an opportunity to serve the South Jersey community t...
JON RUNYAN

I had become shy of life's bustle in my solitary retreat and was apprehensive at the thought of ...
SELMA LAGERLOF

At first I thought of myself as an outcast, but that's like my new family. I really enjoy being arou...
BRANDON LUCKETT

I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a ...
ALAN HOVHANESS

The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive.
MARK WAHLBERG

If I'm going to take my clothes off I figured I might as well do it for something that I'm d...
RACHAEL TAYLOR

I'm young: I've lived my life in the public eye, and I've had to figure out how to do th...
SELENA GOMEZ

I was always telling my family I wanted to become an actress, and I did.
JACKEE HARRY

I'm shy at public speaking, which is tough.
RUTH NEGGA

Well, in order to become a grown man, in order to become significant in my family and significant in...
BOBBY BROWN

Get this (economic plan) passed. Later on, we can all debate it.
, TO NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGISLATORS

As a kid, I was always very shy growing up - I wasn't very good at articulating my thoughts or m...
COLIN EGGLESFIELD

And I was very shy as a kid; if you sang me 'Happy Birthday,' I would cry. Quite shy. So the...
CODY HORN

Think more than you read and become an author. Think as much as you read and become a speaker. Read ...
EPHDAN

I'm becoming more indulgent and less giving as an actor as I get older. I'm immersing myself...
RHYS IFANS

I have kept a diary,
WITHNAIL AND I

Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who...
ANNIE LENNOX

My integrity had been called into question; I was being called a liar, and I am not a liar. And I ju...
DAVID BLUNKETT

The longer I live, the more I have come to value the gift of eloquence. Every American youth, if he ...
GEORGE F. HOAR

I'm not ashamed to be me. More than anyone else I know, I love my life and accept myself. What&#...
JOHNNY WEIR

I used to envy kids who had an old-fashioned Grandpa. Not any more. I've got a new ambition. Now I j...
HAL BOYLE

Although I am a public figure, I'm still a little shy. I don't think my own personality is i...
JOSHUA LEDERBERG

I started to develop a penchant for the odd hot foil of smack. After all those years of calling junk...
STEPHEN RICHARDS

I was safe in this world. This was a place for creatures—I felt I had become more of a creature th...
ASPEN MATIS

I thought of myself as an adult trapped in a kid's body. Had I known what adulthood was like, I ...
GABY HOFFMANN

Because I've been so bad at looking after myself, how would I ever look after a kid? But the old...
KEN BRUEN

I come by writing dialogue fairly naturally, I've got a chatty family; I'm a bit of a voyeur...
PATRICK DEWITT

I made the decision when I came to Seagram that it had to be OK that my public persona would be bad....
EDGAR BRONFMAN, JR.

Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent amb...
J. G. BALLARD

I had more friends on my hockey team than I did on my soccer team. I might have been better at socce...
CARL HAGELIN

I started 'Storyline' after I'd accomplished all my goals and still wasn't happy. I&...
DONALD MILLER

I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy le...
STEPHEN HAWKING

My first ever job after college was as a flight attendant. I wanted to travel and could not afford i...
JACQUELINE WINSPEAR

The more I grow as an artist, the more I think I become like my father as an artist. The more I dive...
ZIGGY MARLEY

The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could n...
CHARLES DICKENS

Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me...
SIDNEY SHELDON

I'd got accepted to a seminary in Wisconsin, and I was gonna become a priest, but at the last second...
JACK WHITE

One of the things that I did before I ran for president is I was a professional speaker. Not a motiv...
HERMAN CAIN

I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I wa...
V. S. NAIPAUL

I'm a journalist, so my friends are journalists: magazines, newspapers, even public radio. Nobod...
SANDRA TSING LOH

Yeah I grew up in the public eye. I became a man in the public eye, which is kind of a bizarre thing...
JONAH HILL

I'm probably not going to develop to a final state as an artist. Like, become better and better,...
GARY HUME

I surrounded myself with women when I was growing up because I had this horrible psycho father. Now ...
COURTNEY LOVE

I've always been more in control of my professional life than my personal life. Although I'm...
MARIA CONCHITA ALONSO

When I had made more money than I needed for myself and my family, I set up a foundation to promote ...
GEORGE SOROS

You know, as a young child, I lay in my bedroom and I swore to myself then: 'I'm not going t...
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR.

He's become like a public speaker for our club. He goes with me to United Way functions and people d...
DENISE CAROTHERS

I tried to become a family man. I got married, but it didn't work out. After 22 months we got an...
DOMINIC CHIANESE

I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of p...
ALBERT ELLIS

With experience, you improve. I'm a better player now, more complete than I was when I was playe...
EDEN HAZARD

I'm shy, but not on a one-to-one basis. Over the years, I have become acclimatised to a bit of p...
RAF SIMONS

When I was a model, everybody was scrutinising me and I felt I had to go to the gym because my figur...
SAMANTHA FOX

Now I have to motivate myself much more than I had previously.
WALTER JON WILLIAMS

My father kind of had hopes that I was going to become an artist like him - the typical thing. Of co...
DAVID RUSSELL

I was always the new kid in school, I'm the kid from a broken family, I'm the kid who had no...
DAVE MUSTAINE

I'm not really very ambitious. I'm more interested in enjoying my life and looking after my ...
JAMES D'ARCY

I've changed in my sympathies since I've become a mother myself. In high school I went throu...
SARAH DESSEN

I would like to become the prime minister, do the job for two years, and then leave and devote mysel...
BIDZINA IVANISHVILI

I'm fulfilling my dreams that I had as a kid every single day.
AARON RODGERS

I've had to learn and discipline myself that I'm much happier and much less depressed if I g...
NICK OFFERMAN

When I got to Florida, I was a British kid, but I was also an Indian kid: a brown kid with an Englis...
AASIF MANDVI

I had become so insulated in my world as a mother that I didn't know how to pick up the phone an...
PEGGY LIPTON

I am like a kid. I tell my family and friends I'm like a kid.
SHAH RUKH KHAN

I didn't so much become an advocate for public access until I was denied. There was a certain amount...
RYAN NEES

When I was director of the CIA, I knew that we had been - and I'm choosing my words very careful...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

I think with acting, since I became an actor... I, as a person, have become more confident and I hav...
CHARLIE BEWLEY

I wasn't straining at the bit to become a movie star any more than I had plotted to get out of v...
ETHEL MERMAN

I've had more acne as an adult than I had as a teenager. After weaning babies, my skin's gon...
JENNIFER GARNER

Public access had never been an issue until now. Now, I think the commissioners see this as a way to...
JAN PLATT

I had been overexposed in a particular way because my marriage to an extremely successful older man ...
SARAH BRIGHTMAN

I never really felt I had the same respect as my male team-mates. My opinion wasn't worth as muc...
VICTORIA PENDLETON

I think of myself as quite a shy person. But when I'm curious about something, I'll go quite...
ALAIN DE BOTTON

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating noti...
JOHN UPDIKE

For myself, I find I become less cynical rather than more--remembering my own sins and follies; and ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN

I don't mind having people over, but it's weird how much more withdrawn I've become than...
KHLOE KARDASHIAN

I had now reached that phase of the disorder where all sense of hope had vanished, along with the id...
WILLIAM STYRON

I'm an orphan. But the public has adopted me, and that has been my only family. The biggest fami...
EARTHA KITT

I grew up a really shy kid, but I always surrounded myself with a lot funny people. It depends on th...
MANNY MONTANA

I always performed as a kid to make my family laugh and was more concerned with making kids at schoo...
MATHEW BAYNTON

I realised how rich I had become and I asked myself, 'Do I really want to be the richest person ...
DAVID RUBENSTEIN

I was very apprehensive, mostly because I didn’t want to get caught. By now, I had begun to feel r...
MARILYN MANSON

I'm a happy guy. I like to joke around. I'm irreverent. I love my family; I love my son. I w...
NEYMAR

I still held fast to my determination to become a minister; it still seemed to me that that was my d...
PIERRE LOTI

But I think we both knew, even then, that what we had was something even more rare, and even more me...
DAVID LEVITHAN

I'm ready to become a French person amongst French people, and more than ever I have the love fo...
NICOLAS SARKOZY

As a kid, I remember wondering why we lived in an apartment, not in a brownstone, and why we drove a...
LEAH REMINI

I have become down-hearted, I have become discouraged, I have become depressed. I'm just like yo...
DYAN CANNON

I'm not going to become a costume version or caricature of myself; I like to morph.
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I'm less shy now than I was as a kid. After Flight 1549, my family and I had to become public figures and more complete versions of ourselves. I had to teach myself to become an effective public speaker.

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I'm less shy now than I was as a kid. After Flight 1549, my family and I had to become public figures and more complete versions of ourselves. I had to teach myself to become an effective public speaker.

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