It's never my intent to be controversial but I don't shy…

Abortion is a hard thing for Hollywood to deal with because it is so controversial and you don't want to alienate half your audience…

— Cynthia Nixon

I try not to shy away from specificity.

— Finneas

I suppose expectations are strange and I shy away from them. And the whole point of being an actor is to connect.

— Nicole Kidman

Most of us have been subjected to terrible political poetry at least once or twice in our lifetimes, and so we tend to shy…

— Andre Naffis-Sahely

We shouldn't shy away from speaking out and saying how anxious we feel.

— Judi Love

I won't ever shy away from a fight and if it makes sense down the road, I'll do it. But it will be on…

— Conor McGregor

In movies, you get to explore parts of yourself that in real life, people shy away from, like looking stupid or embarrassing yourself or…

— Jess Weixler

I don't shy away from competition.

— Aditi Rao Hydari

My fears are the obvious ones: that marketplace-minded publishers - all four of them - will shy further away from literary fiction, international authors,…

— David Edelstein

I'm never gonna shy away from competition - and that's just the bottom line.

— Mark Ingram II

No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others.

— Tommy Lee Jones

If a brand will shy away from you because you dare to say that black lives matter, that's probably not a brand you want…

— Luvvie Ajayi

I've never been one to shy away from a challenge and I've never been one to shay away from talking a big game.

— Aljamain Sterling

Generally, if I can't be true to the creator's intention and spirit, I will probably shy away from working on a character.

— Darwyn Cooke

It is perfectly acceptable to have a physical problem in our culture, but people tend to shy away from anything that has to do…

— John E. Sarno