These awkward quotes will inspire you. Awkward causing difficulty; hard to do or deal with or causing or feeling embarrassment or inconvenience.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging awkward quotes, awkward sayings, and awkward proverbs.
Famous Awkward Quotes
- “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.” ~ Steven Spielberg
- “Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.” ~ Brian Tracy
- “Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.” ~ Helen Keller
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“Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves.” ~ Drew Barrymore
- “I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It’s always been an awkward kind of thing for me and so when I hit the stage I just sensed freedom. I sensed here’s a place that I can have all the experiences of life and not feel uncomfortable about it.” ~ Nick Nolte
- “Eventually, it is found out but it takes time especially in the conditions when communication is difficult, when the enemy is making it extremely awkward for information to come out, to go.” ~ Joe Slovo
- “The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don’t know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince.” ~ Jodie Foster
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“I imagined that it might be awkward to talk to your wife about her performance, so going into it I was a little nervous. But doing it was actually a wonderfully inspiring experience.” ~ Lasse Hallstrom
- “The commentary track became a lot like the movie and there are some funny, long, awkward pauses that you can tell we’re just trying to find stuff to say. None of us had gotten to really talk about the movie until that moment and they were in New York and we were in L.A.” ~ Jay Roach
- “When all of a sudden, people say, ‘Wow, you look nice,’ and carry on, it’s shocking. Really awkward.” ~ Nikki Cox
- “What’s interesting is the show allows for the awkward pauses to be captured, which makes it stylistically unique, especially for American audiences.” ~ Rainn Wilson
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“I felt little awkward about taking one boyfriend to see a film starring another boyfriend.” ~ Shelley Duvall
- “I’m actually part of a number of minorities. I grew up being a horribly awkward kid. A terrible student. And now I find myself as a filmmaker, and you feel kind of alone in the world because you’re separate from everyone else.” ~ Bryan Singer
- “Everyone has a childhood, everyone had awkward years and weird stages. Mine were broadcast for eight years.” ~ Tina Yothers
- “I think we’re the only jokeless show on television. I mean really, we have no setups and no punch lines. It’s not a joke show. There are funny lines and funny moments but again the comedy is born of the human experience and awkward pauses are a great part of what it is to be human.” ~ Rainn Wilson
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“Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental.” ~ Don Adams
- “Dating is just awkward moments and one person wants more than the other. It’s just that constant strangeness. I think it’s a very real thing.” ~ Jason Schwartzman
- “I wanted to do a movie about being really good at something, yet being socially awkward and not as advanced in your personal life as you are in your creative life.” ~ Alicia Witt , Socially awkward quotes
- “It’s awkward: Here you are with most of your clothes off in bed with this person who you’ve really just met. You’re strangers to each other’s bodies and you’re coming together for the first time in front of all these people.” ~ Sheryl Lee
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“The romance stuff is easy. A sex scene… that’s hard, because you don’t know what to do. Those scenes are awkward.” ~ John Turturro
- “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.” ~ Daniel Radcliffe
- “Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.” ~ Joseph Addison
- “I like parties, but I’m shy, and I often find myself standing around, feeling awkward.” ~ Michael Bergin , Feeling awkward quotes
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“I feel like I’m nothing without wildlife. They are the stars. I feel awkward without them.” ~ Bindi Irwin
- “A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple, responsible, and less awkward.” ~ Charles Edison
- “I avoid clients for whom advertising is only a marginal factor in their marketing mix. They have an awkward tendency to raid their advertising appropriations whenever they need cash for other purposes.” ~ David Ogilvy
- “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.” ~ Alfred Adler
- “President Bush left for Canada today to attend a trade summit. Reportedly, the trade summit got off to an awkward start when the president pulled out his baseball cards.” ~ Conan O’Brien
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“Doing love scenes is always awkward. I mean, it’s just not a normal thing to go to work and lay in bed with your co-worker.” ~ Denise Richards
- “It was strange at times. We had to make out so much that we kind of got over it. It was really awkward.” ~ Clea DuVall
- “When you go to take someone’s picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward.” ~ Annie Leibovitz
- “Order is never observed; it is disorder which attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive.” ~ Eliphas Levi
- “Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you’ve made is worth the misery of having to review it.” ~ Federico Fellini
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“I was a nerd growing up, and I’m a little antisocial and awkward.” ~ Louis C. K.
- “I wasn’t always this confident. Growing up as the awkward gay kid in a small town in Pennsylvania, you’re constantly told, ‘Don’t be yourself, don’t be proud of who you are.” ~ Carson Kressley
- “I was an awkward kid.” ~ Louis C. K.
- “Sometimes you feel awkward being what you’re best at, you feel like you have to be something new.” ~ Marilyn Manson
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“I don’t actually like dates. I get awkward as I never know what to do.” ~ Selena Gomez
- “I’m awkward at these things. Just being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Karate Kid was a real surprise and I was a little uncomfortable.” ~ Pat Morita
- “When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got to be perfectly at home in men’s clothes.” ~ Calamity Jane
- “Well, in pharmacology, if the effect is local, it’s of course absolutely awkward to use it in any other way than as a local treatment.” ~ Arvid Carlsson
- “So many times you see beautiful lovemaking scenes with a lot of exposure or an awkward lovemaking scene, but I think it’s very rare that you see it private.” ~ Ang Lee , Awkward quotes about love
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“I always made an awkward bow.” ~ John Keats
- “Because I am an Englishman I spent most of my life in a state of embarrassment.” ~ Colin Firth
- “In the 1998 Oscars, I found myself in the bathroom in a stall, next to Tom Selleck. So I leaned over and I said ‘looks like we’re a couple of peeing Toms.’ His angry silence is something I’ll never forget.” ~ Tom Hanks
- “That’s how we often react when grace comes at us. It’s awkward. God offers us something that’s too good to be true—unearned, unmerited, total forgiveness—and we stand there, stiff and uncomfortable, waiting for the embrace to stop so we can get back to the business of earning our way into heaven. We need to embrace grace. We need to learn how to hug back.” ~ Judah Smith
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“We change and it’s uncomfortable. We flow for a time and then it’s awkward.” ~ Frazey Ford
- “If you believe that there’s a heaven and hell and people could be going to hell—or not getting eternal life or whatever—and you think that, well, it’s not really worth telling them this because it would make it socially awkward. . . . How much do you have to hate somebody to not proselytize? How much do you have to hate somebody to believe that everlasting life is possible and not tell them that?” ~ Penn Jillette
- “It is remarkable what fine hands men of genius write, even when they are as awkward in all other uses of the hand as a cow with a musket.” ~ Sara Coleridge
- “Sometimes you need to be awkward to beat awkwardness” ~ Charlie Flynn
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“I’m very shy, I feel very awkward.” ~ Jessica Chastain
- “I like playing these awkward moments in between that build relationships. I don’t ever want to play that character that grabs the girl and has my way with her. That’s just not who that character is. If Daryl falls in love with you, he’s going to love you for the rest of his life.” ~ Norman Reedus
- “Adding wings to caterpillars does not create butterflies. It creates awkward and dysfunctional caterpillars. Butterflies are created through transformation.” ~ Stephanie Pace Marshall
- “My new favorite word is ‘awkward.’…Th e reason we need to be in search of awkward is that awkward is the barrier between us and excellence, between where we are and the remarkable. If it were easy, everyone would have done it already, and it wouldn’t be worth the effort.” ~ Seth Godin
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“I’m a little bit awkward on Twitter; like, I’m never really sure what to say.” ~ Maisie Williams
- “The awkward truth, according to one study, is that 90 percent of 8-to-16-year-ol ds have viewed pornography online. Considering the standard climax to even the most vanilla hard-core scene today, that means there is an entire generation of young people who think sex ends with a money shot to the face.” ~ Gail Dines
- “We don’t live in a shared reality, we each live in a reality of our own, and causing upset is often the price of trying to reach each other. It’s always easier to dismiss other people than to go through the awkward and time consuming process of understanding them. We have given ‘taking offense’ a social status it doesn’t deserve: it’s not much more than a way of avoiding difficult conversations.” ~ Frankie Boyle
- “I felt very awkward and out of place in school. Not popular, not attractive, not special in any way and I was longing for love and approval from someone.” ~ Madonna Ciccone
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“In Mississippi, you don’t admit that you’re gay. It’s just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.” ~ Lance Bass
- “You can get through very serious and sometimes horrible and sometimes embarrassing and very awkward situations with humor. It gives us a way out.” ~ Janet Evanovich
- “I feel like I’ll never get over red carpets. They’re so bizarre and awkward.” ~ Adam Driver
- “I always feel kind of awkward when I look at pictures of myself. Watching videos of myself is really uncomfortable.” ~ Max Irons
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“Weave sex is a little awkward.” ~ Nia Long
- “My father made with me one serious mistake which I see parents about me making. He got himself somehow into the awkward position of an authority; I thought he knew and was right on everything – for a while.” ~ Lincoln Steffens
- “Stay naked as much as possible, but do not impose your orgiastic will on others. Don’t have sex in the lobby – it’s usually awkward.” ~ Hunter S. Thompson
Awkward lacking ease or grace (as of movement or expression) or difficult to use, do or deal with.
