Awkward Quotes - Page 23

• 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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• I was actually really impressed by how many awkward stories we had, ranging from bad haircuts to one guy told us about being on the beach and he threw a Frisbee and it hit a lady in the head. His immediate reaction was to turn and he found a kid next to him and pointed to the kid, it's those kinds of moments. I was really impressed with the volume of fun stories we got to play with. No one was a loser in this game; they were all winners .

  Danny Pudi

  Beach, Fun, Kids

  Source: collider.com

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• There are moments when, like all of us, you get a bit self-conscious and you'd rather not be living any of your day in public. Those are the awkward times, but you've got to have fun with it.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Fun, Self, Moments

  "Benedict Cumberbatch: Code Breaker Alan Turing Was A Puzzle Himself". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. November 21, 2014.

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• When you start becoming a pop star, you think, Hold on a second, maybe my life is different now - maybe all these people that I thought of as celebrities are going to be normal, and when I walk into a room I'm going to be really cool and so is everyone else. But that's not what happens at all - I was awkward, and then I just retreated from any social engagement for about a year.

  Matthew Healy

  Stars, Thinking, Years

  "The 1975's Matt Healy on That Time Usher Mistook Him for Skrillex". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 27, 2016.

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• When I was growing up skateboarding, a bunch of friends and I went to this thrift store and as we were leaving I jumped up and passed gas in my friend's face. I turned around and it wasn't my friend, it was this nice old lady who was just walking out of the store. That was probably one of the more awkward apologies I've had to make in my life.

  Mark Hoppus

  Growing Up, Nice, Apology

  "Interview: Mark Hoppus on Blink-182's New Album, 'California'". Coup De Main Interview, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. June 27, 2016.

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• Everyone feels awkward, everyone feels uncomfortable, everyone gets older, everyone gets lonely, everyone gets sick, everyone eventually dies.

  Moby

  Lonely, Sick, Uncomfortable

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• There's always something that happens where I go, 'Oh, that was so awkward!'

  Pegi Young

  Happens

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I can accomplish all those. It's really awkward, kind of, for me coming out here and being in a competitive golf atmosphere. I don't get to do it but once a year, except my, like, local tournaments back home in Oakland.

  Stephen Curry

  Home, Golf, Years

  Source: wearegolf.org

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