Michael Ian Black Quotes

I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.

I don't think of myself as hot or cool or anything, just a dork.

I never want to be a showoff or attention getter or something that, truthfully, is kind of repulsive to me, but I get uncomfortable.

I just really don't like being the center of attention that much. It's kind of ironic.

I feel shy when people are fussing on me.

I am very bad at taking compliments. Even in school, when people told me that I look good, I could just manage an awkward thank you and a smile.

I'd been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that's part of being shy.

She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die.

My mom told me when I get compliments to cover my ears.

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.

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

I like parties, but I'm shy, and I often find myself standing around, feeling awkward.

I don't know, I'm literally the most awkward, socially strange person.

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.

People tell me all the time that I look forbidding or aloof. That doesn't bother me much - I am fairly private, withdrawn, and... distant, I guess. But, um, I think that's okay.

As soon as someone tells me: 'You're rather sexy,' I wish I could disappear. If somebody says: 'You were voted the world's sexiest man,' I have no idea what that means. How do I respond? 'Thank you' is the best you can do. George Clooney is the world's sexiest man, anyway.

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

My films are about embarrassment.

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

I'm not that smooth.

I was an awkward kid.

It turns out that popularity is scary. I don't feel comfortable receiving so much attention from people; perhaps that's because I'm just a kampong boy.

I have a dread of sounding pretentious and try not to talk too much about what I do.

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've always been a geek and slightly awkward... slightly umm... I was never the cool kid at school.