Alex Smith Quotes

Sometimes when people give you suggestions they are kind of making you nervous, you wonder whether you are doing something wrong.

The more unsettling the more I feel at home.

I find it quite unsettling if I'm doing the same thing that I did yesterday.

From the time I was little, I always felt like an outsider. I always felt nervous and uncomfortable with myself.

What happens with you when you begin to feel uneasy, unsettled, queasy? Notice the panic, notice when you instantly grab for something. (51)

That's my talent, I make people feel uneasy.

It never got ugly, although it got a bit strange at times.

When I watch films or tv that I've done, I get very restless and tend to not sit still.

You can never entirely rest comfortably with Michael Black or Michael Paynes.

Blind dates are treacherous. You don't know who this person is. You wonder, 'Should I call my grandma during coffee to get out of this?'

I feel like I want to crawl out of my skin, especially when people start questioning me.

Every time another review comes out I let out a deep breath.

Why do waiting rooms have to be so ominous?

For me, heaven would be a lack of alienation. The whole time I was growing up, I felt comfort was inherently evil. I think that, for me, heaven isn't about couches and milk shakes and never having a troubling thought again.

Throughout 'Doris,' and while I was recording it, you could hear I was apprehensive towards everything. I can't explain it. It wasn't fun; it was like I had to do it.

That routine thing is not comforting to me. It's the opposite to that.

I don't feel comfortable as an insider.

I'm nervous and awkward.

Sometimes, discomfort is very uncomfortable. Anybody can get occasionally tired of it, and then it can change fast, where it's comfort that disturbs you.

Awkward is a state of being.

I hate Q&As. They make me feel awkward.

I don't like drama. Drama actually makes me nauseous.

Most of the time, I'm a little bewildered or sort of feel out of place.

In life, we like tranquility; in books, we love tension.

I actually feel awkward being at the center of attention.