I was an introverted kid; I liked my time alone. And the rest of my family is pretty extroverted, so I felt like a bit of an oddball. They're very gregarious and charming and charismatic people. I always felt like I was struggling as a young person. I think everyone was very surprised to hear that I wanted to be an actor.

Mark Ruffalo

I was introverted, shy. But if you win a lot you need to be extroverted, or they'll think you're arrogant.

Alberto Tomba

I often feel that I have a split personality. I love more than anything to be in my study writing, but when it's time to do a book tour, I love that extroverted part, too - talking to people, reading, traveling, going out into the world.

Ann Hood

'Xen,' to me, was a necessary excursion inward, into myself. 'Mutant' is a response to it and is more extroverted.

Arca

I had that extroverted energy, and I always involved myself in quite adult conversations. My mum never hid us from that. There was never a kids' table; we were never treated as kids, per se, because I don't think she believes in that.

Billy Howle

Writing and producing television very much speaks to the extroverted part of my personality. I love collaboration, the joint effort of hundreds of people working together to create something. But the other part of who I am is extremely introverted. I love being alone and dreaming up ideas and writing novels.

Blake Crouch

Some people are just quiet - they don't need to be talking all the time and aren't extroverted, but they're not necessarily afraid to talk. I'm not really a shy person.

Chirlane McCray

Jazz of the sort we play is a happy, extroverted music. You don't have to think about it too much.

Chris Barber

I think there's times where I'm introverted, and there's times where I'm extroverted.

Chris Weidman

My job is designing shoes. It's work that happens behind the scenes, as they say, and that suits me just fine because in general I am a shy person. But sometimes I have these extroverted outbursts.

Christian Louboutin

I'm so extroverted. I wanna learn how to be introverted, though.

Denzel Curry

Strapping Young Lad is a vehicle for me to be wild and extroverted and ridiculous. It gives me the chance to say, 'Look at me. I'm a heavy metal guy. I'm Rob Halford or Bruce Dickinson or whoever.'

Devin Townsend

Stiles is a version of me that rarely exists in the real world. He's so confident and extroverted, and I'm much more restrained and internal.

Dylan O'Brien

By nature, my default place is a very introverted one, so it's funny to be in such an extroverted profession. I'm a little inappropriately in it.

Elizabeth Marvel

I'm not a particularly extroverted person.

Ellyse Perry

If you're CEO of a company, you have to be a public person. You're speaking to the press, you're speaking to investors, you're speaking to employees, you're the public face of the company and so kind of naturally you become more extroverted, more outwards facing.

Fabrice Grinda

Before my mum passed away, I was a very extroverted person; I was very outgoing. I didn't care what people thought about me.

Fran Kirby

Social media is an advertisement for the superficial extroverted self.

Hozier

There's a really positive side of being an introvert - you really pick up on things a lot more than your extroverted counterparts.

Jessica Williams

My wife is one of the most extroverted people I know. She could out-talk Oprah and Joyce Meyer simultaneously.

John Ortberg

I was pretty locked up emotionally as a kid - my family situation was tumultuous. But I was extroverted. So when I was in pain, I would tell jokes instead of expressing myself.

Lindsay Wagner