Mary H.K. Choi Quotes

I find parties difficult. I like a dinner party, but I find being at parties difficult, so I choose not to go to parties.

I have a real hard time with inter-personal relationships. I find it really taxing. Especially, like, friendships and being in bands.

I had a very easy time loving an audience. But when it's one-on-one with somebody, all I wanted to do was run away, because maybe they're going to want something from me I can't give, or they're going to hurt me.

I'm a total wreck. Afraid to let anyone near. Afraid they'll see the real me.

I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

I'm too insecure to have people hate me.

What I'm seeing is a generation that says consistently, 'I would rather text than make a telephone call.' Why? It's less risky. I can just get the information out there. I don't have to get all involved; it's more efficient. I would rather text than see somebody face to face.

Nothing terrifies me more than being social.

I'm making a movie about relationships, and I'm surrounded by guys scared of talking to girls.

I'm a fun person, but to be the life of the party all the time, just to walk into a room and be 'on' and have everybody looking at you, that is so incredibly scary for me.

We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world.

Well, I don't go out much socially. I don't enjoy going out.

At sleepovers I would have panic attacks trying to break it to girls that they didn't want to kiss me without outing myself.

I have very, very few friends. I live in a very tight circle and emotionally I'm probably not as generous as I once was. In an average week I probably meet 150 new people and that's uncomfortable sometimes.

Some people are uncomfortable saying what they feel.

I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.

I found I could perform in front of 200 people, but I would still feel nervous having a one-on-one conversation.

I thought talking to human beings was just something that could make things complicated and unpleasant. So I didn't talk much. I just watched people.

To burn a CDR of music you like to give as a gift to someone you wish to become closer to is a cold, moist-palmed, mouth-breathing bummer.

I'm a sponge. I sometimes don't want to go out of my house because it's like, 'Who's going to make me cry today?'

We have an epidemic of insecure people in our society today.

I think I have a deep-seated fear of being misunderstood. Or being misjudged.

I've played real people before, but I never knew them.

I was gregarious as a kid, but I think the idea of actually getting to know people, I'm just shy. It sort of takes me a minute to want to sit down and talk about myself.