Awkward Quotes - Page 21

• Because I was a shy and awkward child, I used humour to deflect attention. It was a controlling mechanism. Because I could use it to control my image.

  Catherine Tate

  Children, Use, Shy

  "What I'm not is a cheery person". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2008.

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• I used to have an afro like Will Ferrell in Semi-Pro. It was bleached blond from the sun. I was tall and awkward. I was not cool.

  Liam Hemsworth

  Afros, Sun, Used

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• I've been awkward forever. I have really low expectations for myself. When I do perform to some sort of social standard, I leave feeling really comfortable. I'm either so awkward that I look retarded or I'm so awkward that everyone else feels retarded.

  Earl Sweatshirt

  Expectations, Forever, Feelings

  Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. October 3, 2013.

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• I would rather have a young fellow too much than too little dressed; the excess on that side will wear off, with a little age and reflection; but if he is negligent at twenty, he will be a sloven at forty, and stink at fifty years old. Dress yourself fine where others are fine, and plain where others are plain; but take care always that your clothes are well made and fit you, for otherwise they will give you a very awkward air.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Reflection, Years, Clothes

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.128, Oxford Paperbacks

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• In the sallies of badinage a polite fool shines; but in gravity he is as awkward as an elephant disporting.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Elephants, Shining, Fool

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• Time, which shows so vacant, indivisible, and divine in its coming, is slit and peddled into trifles and tatters. A door is to bepainted, a lock to be repaired. I want wood, or oil, or meal, or salt; the house smokes, or I have a headache; then the tax; and an affair to be transacted with a man without heart or brains; and the stinging recollection of an injurious or very awkward word,--these eat up the hours.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Heart, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.63, Courier Corporation

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• Our job is to love people. When it hurts. When it's awkward. When it's uncool and embarrassing. Our job is to stand together, to carry the burdens of one another and to meet each other in our questions.

  Jamie Tworkowski

  Hurt, Jobs, Nursing

  Jamie Tworkowski (2015). “If You Feel Too Much DELUXE: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For”, p.82, Penguin

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• Peasants are a rude lot, and hard: life has hardened their hearts, but they are thick and awkward only in appearance; you have to know them. No one is more sensitive to what gives man the right to call himself a man: good-heartedness, bravery and virile brotherhood.

  Jacques Roumain

  Heart, Men, Giving

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• Usually, the energy in elevators is so awkward; I mean, I cant imagine the politics in the ones in the Conde Nast building.

  Marco Brambilla

  Mean, Energy, Imagine

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• I'm not thinking about forcing my kids to watch my movies. It's always awkward when someone says: "Hey, I wrote a song, can I play it for you?" That would be the dynamic, if I was like: "Hey, you're my son, watch my work!" I don't want to put them in that awkward position. Just because when they get older, that's when I'm worried, that they'll judge me and say: "Yeah, my father's ******* Jack Black. He was in that cheesy movie." So, I'm going to keep it all high quality. It'll be a quality controller.

  Jack Black

  Song, Father, Kids

  "Kung Fu Panda - Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman and Ian McShane interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I'm not entirely comfortable saying I'm an actor, because it seems like a very weird, almost dorky thing to say you are. I laugh after every take just out of the discomfort I feel that I'm even on film. It's an awkward thing for me to be doing. Once we get going, it's always fine, and as we're shooting, I'm never thinking about it. I'd say that all my time in front of the camera is equally uncomfortable for me.

  Seth Rogen

  Thinking, Laughing, Cameras

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. May 31, 2007.

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• Here's a guy [Richard Nixon] who had no gift for small talk, never liked to be around strangers, was physically awkward, and he goes into the one business that calls for ease with strangers and a gift for small talk.

  Harry Shearer

  Guy, Ease, Stranger

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• [Sex] is really awkward. You know you have expectations and then it's this great moment of connection and it's a surprise. But that's what so exciting about it is that sense of surprise.

  Joe Meno

  Sex, Expectations, Connections

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• The good thing about my fans is that they like when I'm awkward and real, so I'm able to just go on stage and be my dorky self.

  Tori Kelly

  Real, Self, Fans

  Source: www.pop-buzz.com

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• Being injured is quite an awkward situation to be in mentally. Physically, it's quite good to have a bit of a rest, but mentally it's hell.

  Magnus Backstedt

  Hell, Situation, Injured

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• To be on set every day with a whole bunch of people that know their job and my job a lot better than I do and I'm supposed to tell them what to do, that's very uncomfortable and awkward.

  Timothy Miller

  Jobs, People, Bunch

  "Exclusive: Tim Miller Talks Deadpool Development & X-Men Universe". Interview with Rob Keyes, screenrant.com. November 5, 2015.

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• Writing was always a laborious thing for me. I never wrote fluently, I never wrote fluidly, there was something very awkward in my writing. But it seemed to me purposely awkward. It's almost as if I made the labor part of writing.

  Vito Acconci

  Writing, Made, Labor

  Interview with Shelley Jackson, believermag.com. January 1, 2007.

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• There is nothing more awkward and more laughable than a naked dude with his wiener flopping.

  Mark Hoppus

  Naked, Flopping, Laughable

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• I writhe when I see myself on the screen. I'm such a dreadfully clumsy hulking image. I say to myself, "Why doesn't he get off? Why doesn't he get off?" I mean, I look like such an idiot. Some fat awkward thing dredged up from some third-rate drama company. I must stop thinking about it, otherwise I shan't be able to go on working.

  Peter Sellers

  Drama, Mean, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Just make sure you find your own style rather than going with what everyone else is wearing. If you feel comfortable, it's going to get you noticed in the right way. That's better than worrying about what everyone else is wearing and feeling awkward. That's the most important thing.

  Nick Youngquest

  Worry, Feelings, Style

  Source: in.askmen.com

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• I was rejected in school because I didn't look like the big-breasted, beautiful girls. I was awkward and sad. My mother always said, "Be original!" but I didn't understand until I changed to be like everyone else.

  Sandra Bullock

  Beautiful, Girl, Mother

  "America asks, Sandra Bullock answers" by Kate Meyers, www.nbcnews.com. August 05, 2010.

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• My first on-screen kiss was lame: Nickelodeon. But my first real-life kiss was super cute and nice, but still very awkward. It was with this hot skateboarder with dreadlocks. He was my little Rasta man.

  Christian Serratos

  Cute, Real, Nice

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I made my performance debut in New York City downtown on the Lower East Side in college doing awkward performance art as a go-go dancer at Lady Starlight's Party. And I never thought that my love for mediocre performance art and bad mime would ever come to use in my career as an actor. But my fantasies came true and I got to play Maureen in Rent.

  Annaleigh Ashford

  Art, New York, College

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• A scientific autobiography belongs to a most awkward literary genre. If the difficulties facing a man trying to record his life are great - and few have overcome them successfully - they are compounded in the case of scientists, of whom many lead monotonous and uneventful lives and who, besides, often do not know how to write . . .

  Erwin Chargaff

  Writing, Men, Literary Genre

  Erwin Chargaff (1978). “Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life Before Nature”, p.61, Paul & Company Pub Consortium

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• May I suggest a drinking game where everytime I do a ridiculously long awkward blink, someone does a shot of some kind of alcohol?

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Drinking, Games, Long

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