Atticus Shaffer Quotes

If I go to a restaurant, other people stare. The meal is ruined.

The worst was when my skirt fell down to my ankles, but I had on thick tights underneath.

I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother.

My day goes from one embarrassing moment to the next.

I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible.

I don't go to the mall a lot 'cause girls scream and run at me, and I get shy.

It's difficult to feel that people are looking at you in the street. I don't like the fuss.

If I were trying to avoid embarrassment, I wouldn't have stumbled my way through 'Dancing with the Stars.'

It's kind of awkward to eat alone in a restaurant because everybody's looking at me.

It's really hard to go out knowing that you are going to be the center of attention just about anywhere you go and that it's not going to be in a positive way.

When someone watches us eating, we feel exposed. We might also harbor a suspicion that the person staring wants to steal food from our plate. The taboo, in any case, is long-standing.

It's awful walking into a restaurant and having the whole room look at you, knowing what they're saying.

Standing by myself, just having everybody looking at me the entire time, is not my idea of a good time.

My first experience on public radio still ranks among the most embarrassing episodes of my relatively short life.

I got a lot of unwanted attention when I was young. I'd be at a tournament at age 9 and there'd be loads of people around me. It always made me feel funny.

We were at this point of recognisability where we couldn't even walk around anymore... I was really socially anxious and strange.

I actually feel awkward being at the center of attention.

I can't make eye contact when people sing 'Happy Birthday' to me.

I put my foot in my mouth every time I'm interviewed.

I don't like my birthday. I don't like things that are directed towards me. It took me a long time to get over people asking me to write my name in the book.

I started Pilates. I'm the only guy in there. They plot before I get there: 'How can we make John look ridiculous?' Because every exercise involved my legs up, like I'm in the stirrups or something.

I put my foot in my mouth more than I speak properly.

For some reason, people look at me and laugh. I don't know why.

Everybody asks me what it was like to be in my underwear for my network television debut.

There was a massive poster of me down my road, right outside the chip shop. I was about to go in, but then I saw it and changed my mind. Me coming out with a bag of chips, while I'm up there doing crunches on the poster... well, it would not look good.