Ignorance wavers between extreme audacity and extreme shyness.

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.

Heaven, no. I was shy for several years in my early days in Hollywood until I figured out that no one really gave a damn if I was shy or not, and I got over my shyness.

I can do anything you want me to do so long as I don't have to speak.

The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid