Hailey Gates Quotes

I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're laughing.

My worst habit is probably awkward laughing. I always awkward laugh, like when you're talking to someone and no one is saying anything, so I'll do an awkward laugh. I wish I didn't do that.

I hate going into a room with people in it and the feeling of them staring. I find every moment excruciating.

I have a hard time watching the shows now. It is like opening up a yearbook when you were in junior high. I think everybody looks back at their photos and cringe, and I get to experience it with everybody else in the world looking at mine.

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

If you're OK with being clumsy, it's funny. But if you are super embarrassed, people are going to laugh at you.

Sometimes I don't want to stand around a room full of strangers, chitchatting about nothing, so I'll come late to a party - and leave early. Though now that I'm saying this in a magazine, I'll probably never be invited to another one.

I'm a big people-watcher. I love it. But I feel bad about it, because I always get caught!

The land of embarrassment and breakfast.

I was always 'foot-in-mouth-Mia.'

You know, I'm not really any good at working out when people are flirting with me. And I think I'm too flirtatious with people I'm trying not to flirt with! What I am good at is making people feel uncomfortable. I don't want to but it always ends up happening!

I get uncomfortable when people give me presents and watch me open them. I don't have birthday parties, because the idea of a group of people singing and looking at me while I'm blowing out candles gives me hives.

I think it's the human condition to be frequently embarrassed by your parents.

Embarrassment and awkward situations are not foreign things to me.

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

It's so embarrassing and painful to be young.

I'm always awkward when someone recognizes me.

I still get very uncomfortable and flushed on the street if somebody recognizes me or stops me. I don't know what to say. It's uncomfortable and strange.

I feel like I'm constantly trying to avoid awkwardness. I always try to pretend that the awkwardness doesn't exist, and then it just becomes more awkward.

I was a bit of a late developer, and everyone was saying, 'Whatever you do, don't shave,' and I hadn't really started shaving. I remember rubbing the soot from a kettle on to my bumfluff to make it look more like I had a beard.

I was so gangly, even sneakers looked awkward. Everybody kind of goes through some phase, and it's hard if you're singled out for anything. But there was this one boy in particular who made fun of me, and - it's funny - then later, when we were 18 or 19, he wanted to go out with me.

It would upset me if someone watching a show was thinking about me, Milo, as an individual at the supermarket or at a concert, wherever, and they're not thinking about what the character is experiencing.

When I was younger, most people thought my lips looked like Tweety Bird's - there were always comments like that from family and neighbors.

People usually want to show me their impression of me, which is always awkward.

I don't really get embarrassed a lot because I feel like life goes on. I mean, I fell on stage one time; like, I tripped one time. My voice cracked... That's pretty embarrassing.