“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

“- Momma: Who the hell are you?
- Larry: I'm Owen's friend.
- Momma: Owen doesn't have a friend!
- Larry: That's because he's shy.
- Momma: No he's not. He's fat and he's stupid!”
Anne Ramsey - Momma
Billy Crystal - Larry

“- Mrs. Starret: A boy should be spending his summer outside with friends. Don't you have any friends?
- Ben Hanscom: Can I have the book now?”
Elizabeth Saunders - Mrs. Starret
Jeremy Ray Taylor - Ben Hanscom

“- Sue Bridehead: I am not afraid of any man.
- Jude Fawley: Why?
- Sue Bridehead: Because no man would touch a woman unless she gives him reason to. A touch or a look that say come on. If you never look, they'll never come. You are the timid sex.”
Kate Winslet - Sue Bridehead
Christopher Eccleston - Jude Fawley

“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