I studied well, and I was the leader among my friends. However, I started losing interests in everything, and started becoming more and more awkward from some point.
I only hang about with people I don’t feel awkward around. I don’t let many people into my circle.
With ‘Badhaai Ho,’ the lines are so quirky and the situation is so humorous, awkward, and bizarre that people are taking away a lot from the film. The dialogues are amazing. We aren’t trying to make people laugh, but the situation is like that, that people are laughing.
I either enjoy things or not. And things either make me think, or they don’t. Or they mess with me, and I feel awkward.
I never really consider myself an awkward person, but once I got into stand-up, I kept hearing that word. The only thing I can trace it back to is that my mom had a similar sensibility. She always made people uncomfortable.
The media tends to portray the teenage world as one where drinking and sex is taken for granted. In fact, I think most teenagers don’t drink, are unsure of themselves, and feel awkward around members of the opposite sex.
The ultimate first date? Something that is completely out of the ordinary – go crazy, because first dates are always a little awkward, so do something a little extreme.
I’m a great salesman when I believe in a product that somebody else is producing, but I always feel very awkward and clumsy asking for money for my work.
Donald Trump, unlikely Mitt Romney, is not awkward about his money. He has absolutely no qualms about saying, ‘I’m rich.’
I would never have a listening party! That’s super awkward. Having to watch other people listen to or appraise something you’ve done is the most uncomfortable experience you could ever have.
I want people to treat me as normally as they can. Anybody who doesn’t, I feel awkward with.
When I grew older and awkward, when my parents divorced and life had gone all to hell, Demetrie stood me at the wardrobe mirror and told me over and over, ‘You are beautiful. You are smart. You are important.’ It was an incredible gift to give a child who thinks nothing of herself.
You know, even with the ‘Awkward Black Girl’ episodes, they come out once a month. That’s great for me, it’s comfortable, it gives each time to digest, time for new people to get on to it and caught up, but oftentimes I have people who are almost demanding a higher output from me.
I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends’ lives.
My second TV assignment ever was to go to Cambodia to look at the state of the country in the dying days of the Khmer Rouge. I was naive, awkward, and not very good at writing to pictures.
I had one date in high school – that was it, and he didn’t ask me out again, because I was taller than everybody. I was very gangly and awkward, and I wore weird clothes that I made.
I know people who enjoy having 10 people running around and doing things for them. I don’t. I feel awkward in such situations. It gives you a false sense of importance.
It was awkward because the high school that I went to, my aunt taught at, it was this private boy’s school in D.C. There were one or two teachers that I had the hots for, but never fully expressed my feelings because my aunt was always watching.
I don’t know, I’m literally the most awkward, socially strange person.
Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.
My biggest problem in my life is I’m cheap and I didn’t hire a publicist. In every awkward interview, normally actors get these things scripted.
I was a very awkward high schooler, especially in early high school.
I kind of find humor in everything, even to the point where it’s awkward – like, the worst scenarios are the funniest things ever.
I went through an awkward adolescence and had braces.
We worry about appearing awkward in a presentation. But up to a point, most people seem to feel more comfortable with less-than-perfect speaking abilities. It makes the speaker more human – and more vulnerable, meaning he is less likely to attack our decisions or beliefs.
As awkward as it sounds. I’m not Shane Larkin, Barry Larkin’s son, anymore. It’s Barry Larkin, the father of Shane Larkin.
When I first started playing basketball, my coordination was horrible! I went into high school at 6 feet and left at 6-7 and then grew another inch in college. Catching the ball, it was bad. I’ve always been pretty athletic, but when I got really tall, I just felt awkward.
I was just starting out, trying to become a screenwriter, and I became the Austin slam champion three times. For a nerdy, kind of a socially awkward guy, that did wonders for my self esteem.
Israel’s creation was politically amazing and caused by a number of unusual events. And I understand. For centuries, Jews endured horrible suffering, and like other people, deserve the right to self-determination, but the way Israel is going now frightens me. Jews make awkward colonial overlords.
On a typical day, walking down the street, there are a couple of photographers and then there get to be more and more. It’s the most awkward thing, because you have to pretend that they’re not there and it drives you nuts.
I could be myself. I’m very shy and awkward. I think the best thing is to embrace it.
It’s awkward going back up to Edinburgh to see my old friends, because I’m not on the same wavelength.
In New York and L.A., there is sort of that silent competition to be on the cutting edge of something. You end up having a conversation with how the world receives your work, especially if you are writing narrative, not fiction. Sometimes it is an awkward conversation. It’s like group therapy.
I don’t cover my scenes. We approach it visually. Sometimes we go out of our way to do awkward blocking so that we can tell whatever the emotional heartbeat is of that scene in the most interesting way possible.
I didn’t necessarily fit in in high school. I felt very awkward. I still feel completely awkward and weird in my body sometimes. I’m hoping that’s going to go away, but I’ve just embraced it as reality.
Some people harbour an awkward clash of feelings – homosexual attraction on the one hand and shame or embarrassment about that attraction on the other. It is well known that the mind struggles to sustain conflicting views.
Good supporters who have single daughters say, ‘Hey, you need to take my daughter out.’ And it’s awkward.
I never feel awkward, ever, when I’m eating! If someone doesn’t want to watch me eat? Dude, they can leave – I gotta get my fuel. My justification is, would you rather me end my stream and come back two hours later cause I went out to eat, or just eat real quick in between a match?
I will say you could always look at ‘Looney Tunes’ and learn about writing. I think you can learn a lot about the beats of comedy. I think you can find out about awkward pauses, because I think they did those well.
I’m one of those tall, lanky, awkward kids.
I get so nervous. I happen to be socially awkward and shy. I spent a lot of my time as an adult not going places.
Sometimes, you can not click with somebody, and it can feel awkward.
I saw ‘Y Tu Mama Tambien’ with my mom. It was really awkward.
I went through a lot in middle school, and you always try so many different looks and try to be so many different people. I finally realized I’m awkward, I’m lanky, and I’m going to embrace it – make fun of myself and just laugh.
I felt little awkward about taking one boyfriend to see a film starring another boyfriend.
I’m getting better now, but I used to be incredibly awkward with girls. I think any guy who says ‘I’ve never had an awkward moment with a girl’ is a liar.
Actors put ourselves in awkward positions all the time.
‘Reno 911: Miami!’ is a terrible, terrible title, and all the reviews – good and mostly bad – nobody pointed out how stupid a title that was. But you can hardly come up with a sentence that’s more awkward.
Human interaction is awkward and weird, even if it happens without a microphone or camera.
I was scared to say I was in my 40s because at that point, it sounded really old, and to out myself as a middle-aged human – I felt very awkward about it.
I felt like I was the odd one out growing up in the province because I was half-Filipino and half-German, so I wasn’t full-blooded Filipina and, of course, I was the tallest in my class and I felt kind of awkward.
My awkward stage extended well into high school.
‘Awkward’ implies both solidarity and implication. Nobody is exempt.
I’ve been my normal self during pregnancy. I want other women who get nervous and anxious to experience the same comfort as me and to not feel awkward about their weight or baby bump.
As my marriage was slowly dissolving into silent meals and awkward nights of avoiding conversation, I started pondering an unmarried future and wondered if I’d ever be able to hack being single again.
I wouldn’t want to be a talk show host. That’s another awkward compliment people make. ‘You should have your own talk show.’ And I think, no thank you.
I’m a pretty goofy person. I’m an awkward dancer, for instance, and a terrible singer.
