Charlie Brooker Quotes

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 am afraid I am totally hermetic to social games in general.

Whenever you get a bunch of guys that are funny or think they’re funny, when you first meet, there’s always a lot of bits and it’s never, ever, ever funny. So basically you have to get through the awkwardness.

It's awkward going to parties with people you don't know, especially when they think they know you.

I never have anything to talk about.

I don't know anything about tech, but I do know something about slightly socially crippled and overly cerebral guys.

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

I wouldn't say I handle attention well. I'd say I stumble over pick-up lines poorly. I'm not good at any of that.

Cocktail parties for me can be nerve-racking. The brevity of conversations, the number of them - it's not my sweet spot.

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

It is always terrible to be told to go play with people one doesn't know.

Every time i try and wink at someone, I mess it up and end up scaring people.

At times, I get very lonely because people are afraid to talk to me or don't wait for me to write a response. I'm shy and tongue-tied at times. I find it difficult to talk to people who I don't know.

I'm not good at talking to strangers, whether they're sick children or they're - I'm just not good. I'm shy with it.

Awkwardness gives me great comfort.

Whenever I have talked to anyone at too great length, I am like a man who has drunk too much, and ashamed, doesn't know where to put himself.

I was a painfully shy, awkward kid, with low self-esteem and almost no social skills. Online, I didn't have a problem talking to people or making friends. But in the real world. interacting with other people - especially kids my own age - made me a nervous wreck. I never knew how to act or what to say, and when I did work up the courage to speak, I always seemed to say the wrong thing.

I didn't like parties.I didn't know how to dance and people frightened me, especially people at parties. They attempted to be sexy and gay and witty and although they hoped they were good at it, they weren 't. They were bad at it. Their trying so hard only made it worse.

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

As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way and denied so vehemently an knowledge of his movements that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table--the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.

I thought school was immensely boring, and as a teenager, I often found social life quite mystifying... I was not someone to whom it came easily to be charming.

I couldn't quite get the hang of how to socialise as a teenager. I didn't really understand it.

Restaurants are minefields for the socially inept

The more Discovery Channel you watch, the less chance you have of ever meeting a woman. Because it fills your head with odd facts that can come out at any moment. "Hello. Did you know Hitler was ticklish? That sea otters have four nipples? Wait - don't run away!"

I'm a bad dater. I'm the most socially awkward person, like carrying on conversations and stuff.