Oscar Wilde Quotes

When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else.

I have mild social anxiety to an extent where, when I'm talking to a new person, literally the only thing I can think in the back of my head is: 'What do I say when they're done talking?'

I don't know what to do with my arms. It just makes me feel weird and I feel like people are looking at me and that makes me nervous.

I get butterflies before I go out to say hello at a party.

I'm a bad interview because I want to always feel like I'm being totally honest, but at the same time, I'm absolutely paranoid. That combination results in a lot of spaces.

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

I feel like I want to crawl out of my skin, especially when people start questioning me.

When I meet people for the first time, I'm friendly but shy. I'm much less outwardly nervous than I used to be, but I still get anxious sometimes.

Is it weird in here, or is it just me?

I found I could perform in front of 200 people, but I would still feel nervous having a one-on-one conversation.

I'm terrible with big parties.

Working with new people can be really hard and nerve-wracking. When you don't know the person, it's like being on a blind date.

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

When I'm in a hectic crowd of people, I don't feel great. I'm looking over my shoulder. I feel exposed.

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

I feel that if I am uncomfortable, it will show on my face.

People with autism aren't interested in social chit-chat.

Mari remembered what she had read in the young girl's eyes the moment she had come into the refectory: fear. Fear. Veronika might feel insecurity, shyness, shame, constraint, but why fear? That was only justifiable when confronted by a real threat: ferocious animals, armed attackers, earthquakes, but not a group of people gathered together in a refectory. But human beings are like that,' she thought. 'We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear.

I'm usually nervous to meet people that I admire because what if they're not cool or something?

the person talking to you never looks directly at you, but rather around the room, searching for the answer to the universal cocktail party question, 'Who's here tonight?

People ask me if I have stage fright. I say, "God, no, I'm completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright."

I'm suffering from stage fright. I don't like making speeches. [...] I'm the kind of introvert actor who likes putting on other people's clothes and pretending to be somebody else, which is completely crazy choice of profession. So, I don't enjoy public speaking and I have every sympathy for anyone who has to do it and doesn't enjoy it.

Usually people look at you when they're talking to you. I know that they're working out what I'm thinking, but I can't tell what they're thinking. It is like being in a room with a one-way mirror in a spy film.

If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I've got to get out.

Needless to say, the fact that he actually spoke to me at all practically caused me to pass out. And then the fact that he was actually saying something that sounded like it might be a prelude to asking me out - well, I nearly threw up. I mean it. I felt really sick, but in a good way.