Geena Davis Quotes

My awkward stage extended well into high school.

I was not a very... um... not a very popular girl. I think a lot of it was, you know, no boo-hoo about it - but I looked pretty strange for the first few years of my life.

I'm quite shy, so if there's a guy I like, I actually ignore him because I can't speak to him. I get all red and sweaty, and it's embarrassing.

I was such a dork. I was too big. I was really gangly.

When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.

I didn't have a whole lot of success getting dates, I was always a bit of a geek.

There was a kind of physical anarchy that dominated most of my younger life. I was always too skinny, not hairy enough, my voice jumped around. It was a thing that drove me away from towel lines in gym class.

I was an awkward kid.

Everyone seems to relate to the awkwardness of being a teenager, or even a 30-year-old.

I was terribly gawky, too goofy to become a high-kicking cheerleader, with stringy brown hair and bad posture. Definitely nobody noticeable!

I was awkward-looking with huge brown eyes, dark brown, pencil-straight hair styled into an old-school Romanian bowl haircut from the 1980s. And I was very, very small. I was always the tiniest kid on my street and in my classes at school... The gym was the one place I didn't have to worry about feeling awkward for being so petite.

I went through awkward, chubby, total weirdo phases.

In high school, I was so painfully self-aware that how I thought of myself was probably very different from what other people thought of me. I thought of myself as just painfully awkward and dorky. I had a lot of hair and was kind of weird. I sang a lot in the hallways.

When I was a kid, I didn't have any girlfriends. I was a very nerdy-type dude. Believe me, being a ham does not turn girls on.

I was a pretty nerdy kid. I was pretty nerdy. I'm still kind of nerdy. I have all of the worst qualities of being a nerd - all of the affect and none of the smarts. I'm a useless nerd! That's pretty bad.

I suffered when I was in my late twenties and early thirties. I was awkward, I stuck out, I was nerdy.

If you asked me to go back to being 14 or 15, I couldn't - it was a terrifying time. I was so awkward in my own skin. I used to hide behind my hair because I was so ridiculously self-conscious.

When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.

I was skinny. I wore thick glasses. I had acne.

I'm terribly, horribly shy.

I was the awkward, shy chick in high school.

I don't really want to make this sound depressing, but I will say that I didn't really have my first kiss until really, really late.

I spent most of my adolescence feeling awkward but never once mentioned it.

We all know what it's like to go through growing pains and have awkward moments talking to someone you have a crush on.

I was voted 'most shy' in seventh grade! Can you even believe it?