I'm actually a very shy person, which is why I always chose to be in the kitchen. You can make people HAPPY and ENTERTAIN them, WITHOUT REALLY being there. You can make a very short appearance and then say, 'I've GOT something on the stove, gotta go!'

I was very SHY and socially AWKWARD.

I struggle QUITE a lot in rehearsals, partly because I'm shy, partly because I still don't really understand the work that actors and DIRECTORS do. I love the MAGIC at the END, but the getting there - the wrong turns that are necessary to MAKE something work - I find slightly beguiling and worrying.

Off camera, I'm, LIKE, CHILL and very laid-back. I don't KNOW if the word is 'shy,' but 'reserved.' I'm always thinking.

I am super SHY. I was one of those people where I can't EVEN ORDER SOMETHING on the phone. LIKE, I hated that.

Right after 'Idol,' I was like, 'I've GOT to become a totally DIFFERENT PERSON. I gotta UPGRADE myself.' I can't just stand there and be all shy and sing.

I did it all, singing, the harp, piano. But I was so SHY, I'd wake up at six to practice piano because I didn't want ANYONE to hear me play. But then I'd do a big SHOW in SCHOOL where everyone WOULD see me, and that was actually alright.

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really SHY. PAINFULLY shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek ALIVE. No one, I MEAN no one, even TALKED to me.

I was too SHY to GO and MEET PRINCESS Diana.

I'm a very NERVOUS, SHY PERSON.

I SOMETIMES SHY away because I don't want to be too 'showy-offy' but the older I GET I think, 'You have a handkerchief, PUT it in your pocket.'

For me, there's no dichotomy between being shy or a PERFORMER, because I think it's more a way of slightly presenting a VERSION of things to the WORLD.

I've done interviews in the past where, apparently, I didn't GIVE the JOURNALIST any EYE CONTACT. I'm a bit shy, yes. I've thought about refusing to do any PRESS at all.

My very shy Punjabi father never taught me about the birds and BEES. So shy was he that he may have THOUGHT he would get ARRESTED for EVEN talking about it.

There are TIMES when I'm kind of anti-social, I'm just really SHY, and I don't FEEL like I fit in, and I then attribute that to some emotional state that's crippling me.