Kyle Mooney Quotes

If there's a silence in a room I'll try to fill it as soon as humanly possible.

I've gotten better at not making people feel uncomfortable with my shyness.

I find it very hard to believe that people would prefer an awkward picture with me than a normal conversation.

I'm shy and can't for the life of me barge around and slap people on the back. I sit in a corner by myself and am tickled to death when someone comes over to talk to me.

I'm continually amazed by how many people who appear to be extroverts are actually introverts.

I'm the person who will go to a wedding and switch the place cards around because I don't want to sit next to someone I don't know, because I'm so bad at chatting to strangers.

The essence of conversation is not which media format we choose to talk to each other with, so we don't differentiate between snaps and chats. It's just someone wanting to talk to you.

I'm not a good small talker. I'm not into small talk, frankly.

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

I think, for a shy person - and I was very shy until my mid-20s - having been to an all-girls' school is not brilliant on the boyfriend front later. Because when I went to university, it was definitely like meeting a new species of people. Suddenly, at age 19, I was thinking: 'Can you speak to these people?' I was very, very nervous.

I never have anything to talk about.

I'm not good at small talk. I'm really not. I'm not that great at any talk.

Conversation is the most human and humanizing thing that we do.

I don't do well in social environments.

I'm not a great one for chatting people up because it's phoney.

I'm so socially awkward. I really had to put myself out there and meet new people.

I hate small talk! I can't do it.

I had been thinking about social awkwardness and about people you meet who are not bad people - there is nothing wrong with them, but they are just a little bit awkward, and it makes you feel uncomfortable, and it makes you want to bring the encounter to an end. I thought, 'Is there a reason for that? What has contributed to their demeanour?'

I don't think you really get to know a person until you talk to them.

I can get awkward. I am not the best person to break the ice.

I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person.

most people are perfectly afraid of silence

It is always chilling, in friendly intercourse, to say you have no opinion to give.

What I was actually trying to do in my early movies was show how people can meet other people and what they can do and what they can say to each other. That was the whole idea: two people getting acquainted.

Impoliteness is frequently the sign of an awkward modesty that loses its head when surprised and hopes to conceal this with rudeness.