Annie Parisse Quotes

Kissing scenes with a boy or a girl, they're awkward. There's nothing sexy about it. There's a lot of people standing around.

I haven't had to do too many, or many explicit ones. Everybody feels weird, and everybody is trying to tiptoe around and make you think they're not there. The last time I did a love scene, I couldn't keep a straight face.

And I'm supposed to grab her and kiss her and she's supposed to react. Well, what happened was, Julie was very nervous at that time, given this incredible part which she did beautifully.

Being serious just makes me a little bit embarrassed.

I'm too shy to do kissing scenes.

I'm nervous and awkward.

I actually feel awkward being at the center of attention.

I know I was known as a ladies man and all that, but even the thought of holding my heroine's hand made me break into a sweat.

Truthfully, I'm incredibly shy, and I'm very awkward around boys.

If you must know, I-I had never in my life kissed a young lady, and you are far too beautiful to me to want to get it wrong!

Are you asking me to undress, Tris?' A nervous laugh gurgles from my throat. 'Only ... partially

I'm getting so old - it's more uncomfortable to do those scenes now than when I was 20. I mean, I don't have a big problem with nudity on screen. But usually the days when you do those naked love scenes are the weirdest ones on set. Everyone is uncomfortable. You're like, 'Hi. How are you?' Then the next minute you're with an actress who you don't know and you're pretending to make love to her in front of all the crew. The acting challenge is pretending things are OK.

That's my talent, I make people feel uneasy.

Certainly, people feel awkward when they have their photograph taken. They want to see it, but they don't want to see it.

It's always weird to shoot when you're really basically not wearing anything.

It's awkward: Here you are with most of your clothes off in bed with this person who you've really just met. You're strangers to each other's bodies and you're coming together for the first time in front of all these people.

It is quite unsettling looking into someone's eyes, especially when you aren't used to it.

I can talk to anybody but when it comes to somebody that I like, then I turn into like this five-year-old kindergartener in a sandbox.

Nothing worse than reading a love scene written by your father.

Strangers still leave me self-conscious.

If I kind of like a guy, then I'm a fantastic flirt. But with a guy I truly like, I get painfully shy.

You always hear actresses talk about how unromantic it is to act a love scene or a sex scene - which it is. You're doing it with all these lights on and cameras flying around and people on the set.

I happen to know there is nothing sexy or romantic about love scenes. They are just awful to do.

I can be shy when I talk to women. I'm a shy dude.

Social interactions have always been a bit of a difficult thing for me. I think I have a natural tendency to make people not 100 percent super comfortable.