Quotes About Awkward

This is embarrassing," Mr. Haffey informed me. I winked at him. "What, Mrs. Haffey never carried you over the threshold on your wedding night?

We stared at each other. The level of politeness had risen to dangerous levels.

I'm not a natural performer or exhibitionist. When I was younger, I hated the focus, and it made me feel strange.

What musical performers bring to straight characterizations is that physical flexibility that comes with knowing your body so well. A lot of actors are terribly awkward. Terribly. And I think it's so important for them, when they're young, to work on their physical selves.

If you've seen 'Cool Runnings,' it looks pretty easy. You're just riding in a sled, right? Not exactly. Bobsled actually involves a series of complex movements that aren't like those in any other sport. You put your body into a really awkward position to push a 400-pound sled downhill on ice.

I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible.

I've always been obsessed with bad, awkward television and bad public access. Before YouTube, it was a treat coming across that stuff. When I moved to New York, I used to love watching public access late at night.

Here's a trick to giving the birds-and-bees talk: You gotta do it in a car, so they can't escape. That's what all my girlfriends' parents did.

During 'Saturday Night Fever' at the end of the first act dance number I tried to perform a split-jump, only I can't do them so I ended up on my ass followed by the most unsightly backward roll out of it, followed by the cast falling over in laughter and a good portion of the audience too.

Romney is not funny. When he tries to be, it often comes across as awkward.

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

I'm the most uncoordinated clumsy, klutzy person. I always had a bruise, I always tripped and fell.

I was on stage with Cyndi Lauper, and my trousers split. It seemed like she was going to sing for ever.

I think I must have too much to eat, we were doing a scene where we were crawling, and I ripped my trousers. I was very embarrassed. I was sown in, stitched in, quickly!

I've done a lot of talk shows where you can tell that the host is just thinking about what he wants to say next while you're answering him and that's really uncomfortable.

I'm also not good with numbers either, so it's not a great mix. People apparently don't want you ball-parkin' it when it comes to their finances.

A date once leaned in to kiss me, and he ended up kissing my cheek. He was a little offended, but I didn't want to kiss him just to not hurt his feelings.

Where in the world did you get that dress?" "Present from Zu." "You look like you want to throw it in a fire." "I can't promise there won't be an unfortunate accident later on.

If you live far away from a person you no longer want to date just let them know that they are geographically undesirable.

He could only nod as he tucked the scrap in his belt. He looked at the three figures before him, wishing Bult and List had been present for this, but there would be no staged goodbyes, no comfort of roles to step into. Like everything else, the moment was messy, awkward and incomplete.

Awkward approximations, dull stammerings which cannot convey my sense of exhilaration as I seem to burst impediments, to exceed bounds of the possible, to experience, in the ruins of the human, the birth of something utterly new.

Finnigin had always felt that some people are awkward to embrace; the contours of the bodies do not match. With Varian, it was as if they were two halves of a whole. Almost too comfortable.

There was something wrong about seeing her now. It was as if they belonged to different worlds. He wished he could excuse himself.

The last person Owen wanted to see when he went into the cottage was Peveral Othman, yet there he was, as large as life, a little bedraggled, sitting at the kitchen table as if he'd lived there for years.