April Winchell Quotes

I'm hopeless at small talk and have a problem making eye contact.

I used to be really insular, really introverted. I couldn't articulate myself.

For those of us who aren't great with people, we figure that silence is always the safest bet. If you're an introvert, you spend so much of your time wishing that other people would just shut the hell up that you figure you're doing everyone a favor.

I've always had to force myself to make friends and speak to people. My parents were quiet, and it took me a while to get used to the fact that people talk about their feelings, their problems.

I don't know how to talk to people I don't know.

I was painfully shy when I was a kid. I always thought when most people were born, part of the toolkit was teaching you how to relate to other people - and it was just left out of my toolkit.

I'm much less shy in conversation than I am on my own.

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

I was one of those weird children that just couldn't talk to people, so I kind of had to make myself be not like that because I knew it was going to hinder me.

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

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

The minute I stop singing, I'm back to being shy. I'm soft-spoken because I never really talked to people. I didn't learn to do it.

I'm concerned with the lost, the lonely, the shy. I think shyness is in some ways more widespread now than formerly. I used to be shy myself. Of course, you can't be me now and remain shy, but I remember very well what it felt like.

I'm not very cool. I have a really hard time meeting people and stuff.

I don't get as much female attention as you'd think, because I never go out.

I'm shy. I am. I mean, if I get around, you know, in a room of a bunch of people especially I - you know, I don't know or - it takes me a while to warm up. I'm - and the real me, I'm not as witty as, you know, as the comic Wanda. The comic, she's had time to work on some things.

When I came to New York, I was really awkward. I went to military academy for high school, so I didn't have the socialization that most kids do. When I got here, I was five years behind everybody. Talking to women was weird for me.

I don't like when there's too much conversation because I'm shy and it makes me uncomfortable.

I wasn't bullied or anything at school, but I was quite shy and didn't speak up too much in class.

At school I was very shy. I wasn't funny really.

There's something about being rejected - when I go out without my friends, I'm reminded of how I'm actually quite antisocial. I don't look like a guy who feels like that, but it's very hard for me to start up a conversation. At a party, I'm lost.

I'm quite shy. Really. I'm trying to expand myself as a person more, get involved with people.

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

I'm not good at meeting people, and I'm not good at small talk.

I have never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring. I'm just not very good with people, and you meet people every night who expect you to be this rock star with these developed social skills, which I don't have.