Acting Quote by Maura Tierney

I was a shy kid and acting did bring me out of my shell during high school.

— Lucy DeVito

I wasn't into acting when I was a kid. Maybe because I was shy or it didn't occur to me.

— Thomas McDonell

Performing was always my thing, so when I act with another co-actor, perhaps that is why I never feel intimidated.

— Andrea Jeremiah

When I was little, I was actually really shy. I really enjoyed doing school plays, but I found the whole thing terrifying. I cried…

— Emily Berrington

I was very shy about acting. I thought you had to be confident. I was confident with my friends, but I would never think…

— Sarita Choudhury

I had done acting at school, and it felt like something that came very naturally to me.

— Charlie Heaton

I was painfully shy as a child; I was dyslexic. I had a single mother who's an immigrant. I just didn't believe acting was…

— Kaya Scodelario

To be at acting school, it was kind of the first time you felt the freedom to be as much of yourself as you…

— Michael Imperioli

I never went to acting school; when someone expounds on motivation and all that stuff, I don't understand it. I was just lucky to…

— Fred MacMurray

I was shy and a hard worker, so acting was a way to focus whatever nervous energy I was experiencing onto a goal.

— Deborah Ann Woll

I loved acting as a kid because I was kind of shy, so it brought me out of myself.

— Jennifer Jason Leigh

I did a lot of acting when I was a child. I was very shy - the kind of kid who ran into a…

— Adrienne Shelly