You know what my greatest personal stumbling block is? My shyness.

People always ask me, how do you do everything you do?

You know what my greatest personal stumbling block is? My shyness.

I really always felt that I was going to be an actress. I had a lot of confidence in the fact that I would do well from a very early age. I didn't know how tough the business is.

My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans.

I love spaghetti and meatballs... I eat a lot.

Erica Kane was a spectacular role for any actress to play, and I felt so lucky to be the one who got to do it.

I am the luckiest actress on the planet.

I married somebody who is very secure. He's been in my corner from the time we met, and we grew in this together.

It took awhile for me to get used to speaking candidly about my own life. I got into it, and it turned out to be a wonderful experience.

Life goes on, and I'm moving on to the next thing, but I hope the soaps that are still running will thrive. They have millions of loyal viewers.

My grandsons really love my apple cake, which is from my grandmother's recipe.

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.

I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day.

I think I had a shyness about me, I think I discovered acting as a way to break out of that and as a way of belonging, a sense of being special.

You know what my greatest personal stumbling block is? My shyness.

I started studying shyness in adults in 1972. Shyness operates at so many different levels. Out of that research came the Stanford shyness clinic in 1977.

Shyness is just egoism out of its depth.

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

The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual.

I genuinely enjoy talking one-to-one. I have no shyness about that.

What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people.

I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near me and I didn't have to talk to anybody because of my shyness. It was great. I was in my fantasy world.

What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.

In talking, shyness and timidity distort the very meaning of my words. I don't pretend to know anybody well. People are like shadows to me and I am like a shadow.

Scientists have found the gene for shyness. They would have found it years ago, but it was hiding behind a couple of other genes.

There is a shyness about me, and I really need to get out more.

I've gotten better at not making people feel uncomfortable with my shyness.

When I was 14, I did all kinds of different odd jobs. I had a chicken farm, had an ice cream operation in the summertime, worked as a caddy; all things to make money and save money. Save money in order to invest - that was the first step, though I never really accumulated very much because of other demands like bicycles and things like that.

Ah, babies! They're more than just adorable little creatures on whom you can blame your farts.

Some people think that going on a caravan holiday is a slightly more upscale version of camping. Let me assure you, it is much better than that. You know that you will have your creature comforts wherever you are. I never have to pack light, and I can put the kettle on in any location.

We should reduce total government spending as a percentage of the economy. The left wants to focus on the deficit so they can take us away from the focus on spending as a percentage of the economy.

Hip-hop is ever changing but you'll always have the pack. And you'll always have those people who are separated from the pack.

I'm not commercial, I'm not for Special K cereal and I'm not a Wheaties boy; I'm a little bit more avant-garde, a little bit more out there.

There is no 'European people' united by common mores.

When I was a kid, our family used to watch 'Bonanza.' I really liked having a Sunday night TV ritual.

I've realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.

There are no limitations to the mind except those that we acknowledge.

You really can't turn on TLC without seeing us.

Sometimes life seems uncomfortable and that's actually when life starts.

We have a foundation, the Soledad O'Brien Starfish Foundation. We send girls to and through college. We started-off saying we send girls to college, but to do so is not enough. Seeing them through college is the key.

A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.

It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting.

Suzhou is an ancient city full of old gardens that are very famous in China. It is very beautiful. Plus, I met my boyfriend there!

Modern Americans suffer from a fear of judging. Passing judgment on the behavior of fellow human beings is considered an act of medieval, undemocratic intolerance.

I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it.

Very bad things follow when we kid ourselves that we're naturally rational, rather than the more humbling truth: naturally emotional.

Always choose the hardest way on it you will not find opponents.

Immortality doesn't fit with death, as mortal doesn't fit with eternity.