Top 220 Awkward Quotes

Serious beliefs are awkward, especially religious ones. It’s not that there’s anything wrong with them, it’s just that people’s real, heart-felt, deeply held beliefs are, well, ‘not easy to handle or deal with, requiring great skill, ingenuity, or care’ – in a word, awkward.

I’ve got friends who are so good at getting away with things, like going up to the desk to get upgraded on a plane, for example. I haven’t got any of that kind of confidence in those situations. I look so awkward. I act awkward. I’m really apologetic.

Well, in pharmacology, if the effect is local, it’s of course absolutely awkward to use it in any other way than as a local treatment.

People come to me and thank me for being there during their breakups or matchups. It seems awkward, but I’m glad to be of assistance during their light or dark moods.

When I first filmed things, they were always slightly awkward.

I don’t actually like dates. I get awkward as I never know what to do.

People find it odd when an older person talks about sex. Instead, it is accepted from a younger person. Having said that, I do feel awkward talking about such topics.

I was socially awkward for many years. I stuttered, stammered, talked rubbish. I never take up invites to parties, and I’ve been invited to very glamorous things, but I never go.

For ‘Chicago,’ the dancers need to demonstrate an affinity for the Fosse style. Sometimes dancers come in with brilliant technique, but if the Fosse style isn’t easy for them, or it’s awkward for them, they won’t be right for this show.

Sometimes you feel awkward being what you’re best at, you feel like you have to be something new.

I never really wanted to be a singer, because I was a super-shy kid. Singing made me feel awkward, and I was really insecure.

As you’re growing up, it’s odd, because directors don’t expect you to grow up. They think you’ll be young forever, but as an actor, there is an awkward period when you’re too young for old or too old for young, and it can be an odd time.

We all know what it’s like to go through growing pains and have awkward moments talking to someone you have a crush on.

Human beings find change very difficult. They find change is something that can be quite an awkward thing to adjust to. It applies to music. It applies to life. It applies to everything.

It’s awkward going to parties with people you don’t know, especially when they think they know you.

I imagine ‘Daily Grace’ as, like, your awkward older sister who tries to give you advice.

My worst habit is probably awkward laughing. I always awkward laugh, like when you’re talking to someone and no one is saying anything, so I’ll do an awkward laugh. I wish I didn’t do that.

It’s kind of awkward to eat alone in a restaurant because everybody’s looking at me.

I was invited to a dinner party by an ex, and I was convinced that he wanted to rekindle our relationship. I prohibited my friends from coming with me because I didn’t want to make it awkward for them when he professed his love to me.

I’m definitely on the spectrum of socially awkward.

As a shy kid growing up in Sheffield, I fantasized about how it would be great to be famous so I wouldn’t actually have to talk to people and feel awkward. And of course, as we all know from fairy stories, when you achieve that ambition, you find out you don’t want it.

I think part of the fun about walking around in ski boots is making it look as awkward as possible. I really think that’s enjoyable. I don’t know why.

I find standing and posing for photos very awkward.

When all of a sudden, people say, ‘Wow, you look nice,’ and carry on, it’s shocking. Really awkward.

I was very shy and socially awkward.

Jon has always been the romantic. He started dating before I did. I was more awkward and nervous in front of girls in high school.

It’s partly true that I am not seen that often in public. Well, I’m just socially awkward, especially around people I’m not familiar with. But once you get to know me, I’m quite a chatterbox.

In my gym class, we had something called The Pit, this little alcove where we had to sit if we forgot our gym clothes. It was usually just the crippled kid, the pregnant girl, and me. It was pretty awkward, just hanging with all these freaks who didn’t want to show their legs.

I don’t know if it’s changing already with ‘Joanne,’ but my intention is to bring people together that don’t know each other and that would maybe feel awkward, but somehow be brought together by the music. That’s what I wanted to do. Because that is pure and authentic to my family history and what I stand for.

What we wanted to do was tell a story that felt relatable to anyone who’s been a teenager. We haven’t all been a second-generation Pakistani-American girl with superpowers, but we’ve all been 16 and awkward.

I think it’s just an awkward time right now to be a musician.

Sometimes silence is the best way to shut down an awkward conversation.

It’s always easier to dismiss other people than to go through the awkward and time consuming process of understanding them.

The Kevin Abstract project kind of represents being socially awkward in high school, which I’m low-key kind of tired of.

I’d like to think I have a strange affinity for the embarrassing. Not sure what that says about me. But I like the awkward, uncomfortable comedy.

If I am with one person, I am very talkative, and personable. I will talk your ear off, but if there is another person interjected, I get so awkward. I am like the awkward one in those situations, but I feel like a lot of creative people are.

It would be a bit awkward to be with a girlfriend who didn’t love what you do.

I’m actually part of a number of minorities. I grew up being a horribly awkward kid. A terrible student. And now I find myself as a filmmaker, and you feel kind of alone in the world because you’re separate from everyone else.

As much as I hate auditioning – it’s so hard and awkward – it’s way better to walk out of that room and win a role because of what you did.

I imagined that it might be awkward to talk to your wife about her performance, so going into it I was a little nervous. But doing it was actually a wonderfully inspiring experience.

Kissing scenes with a boy or a girl, they’re awkward. There’s nothing sexy about it. There’s a lot of people standing around.

In the real world, I kind of, like, thrived a little bit. The things that were awkward about me at school, like being hyper passionate… I realized, ‘Oh I’m my own person, and I have my own idiosyncrasies and nuances that I don’t mind.’

I was awkward in school. I didn’t really fit in with any kind of crowd in school. I didn’t have a lot of friends. But the friends I had were very close friends.

It’s always a little nerve-wracking to do a love scene, more than anything because it’s just awkward.

I haven’t faced harassment in terms of work, but I think every girl in India has gone through some or the other awkward moment in public where she was eve-teased or touched inappropriately.

I think we’re the only jokeless show on television. I mean really, we have no setups and no punch lines. It’s not a joke show. There are funny lines and funny moments but again the comedy is born of the human experience and awkward pauses are a great part of what it is to be human.

I’m the little half-black, half-Jewish girl who was odd and awkward. I try to be myself.

I feel incredibly awkward as a human being and incredibly teenaged still.

And he doesn’t really – it’s never awkward when you’re talking to Tom Hanks. I’ve never seen him have an awkward conversation with anybody.

I must say, I don’t feel very qualified to be a pop star. I feel very awkward at times in the role.

I shouldn’t feel awkward or feel disconnected to myself or my body while wearing the clothes or a particular fashion. This is very important.

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.

I’m the most awkward man alive.

And in a world without heroes, as the movie trailer voice-over guy might say, the slightly awkward can be slightly cool.

I like taking calls while I’m walking Lenny, but it’s always awkward, trying to juggle a phone while picking up after your dog.

I was 15 on American Idol, and everybody had something to say. It was like I had my really awkward phase on national television, you know?

I feel like I go through an awkward phase almost every day.

The Free Body Culture gave me a gift I might never have received had I refused to play along. It left me with an acute sense of the absurd – one I still cherish – to be there among my fellow apes, awkward and less than half-willing, aiming and missing, leaping, landing and wincing.

I’m sort of awkward with technology, and I think I’m the type of guy who would have something cool happen to him, and it would take, like, five days to figure out how to tweet it.

I remember talking to someone early on after I was sober about how I suddenly felt awkward at parties. They said, ‘Well, you’re supposed to. Everyone feels awkward at parties.’ It’s an appropriate feeling to feel.