Quotes About Awkwardness

I am not popular socially. I am uncomfortable around people.

I like playing characters who are really, really quite uncomfortable with life, uncomfortable in their own skin.

This morning when I put on my underwear I could hear the fruit-of-the-loom guys laughing at me.

With Portlandia, I don't think our intention is always to find something funny. Sometimes the humor comes from taking something really seriously. We're okay with making somebody feel uncomfortable or uneasy.

It's awkward to tell others that your spouse has died. Everyone becomes so sad and sorry, and you just hate like heck to have to break the news to someone who hasn't heard the news.

My brother and I, we were both relatively good-looking guys growing up, but we had our awkward stages, where we were just hard to look at.

I reached my full height at age 11, and I was clumsy as all get-out - all elbows and knees, couldn't get up a flight of stairs without falling down. I wanted to be a cute, petite blonde, but I'm a big ol' strapping thing, so I just accept it.

You know, Sal, for a long time would hate taking elevators with me. Because he knew when those doors closed I was going to do something stupid to embarrass him. So he'd opt to take the stairs a lot.

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.

There's nothing fun about 30 people standing around watching you, like, pretend to pleasure someone. Nothing enjoyable about it, believe me.

I caught my wife in bed with another man and I was crushed. So I said, "Get off of me, you two!"

Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.

When the man who knows all about the fruit fly chromosomes finds himself sitting next to an authority on Beowulf, there may be an uneasy silence.

And that was true too, that was what the Culverts were like: crucified by their shyness and at the same time contemptuous of the world of ordinary people they couldn't talk to.

I met Richard Burton, an RAF cadet on a two-term course. I would have flirted more enthusiastically if it had not been for the horrid boils on the back of his neck.

I cannot pull off a mustache. It's like threading a needle, because most of the time, I'll look like a complete idiot.

I'm nervous and awkward.

I still get a little nervous when talking to girls. Which is awful, and embarrassing, because I feel like I shouldn't.

At school, when it came to being social, I had no idea how to do it.

You don't often see fight scenes with people who have no idea how to fight.

For alarmingly large chunks of an average day, I am a moron.

In other words, it is impossible: we cannot function properly, and the evening ends in confusion and awkwardness, and very early.

I'm beginning to feel more embarrassed about the conversation than about anything we've just done. Horny? They really use that word? Jesus. All my life I've wanted to go to bed with an American, and now I have, and I'm beginning to see why people don't do it more often. Apart from Americans, that is, who probably go to bed with Americans all the time.

Sometimes I got so bored of trying to touch her breasts that I would try to touch her between her legs, a gesture that had a sort of self-parodying wit about it: it was like trying to borrow a fiver, getting turned down, and asking to borrow fifty quid instead. These