Robert Benchley Quotes

I find parties difficult. I like a dinner party, but I find being at parties difficult, so I choose not to go to parties.

I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.

Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.

I'm terrible with big parties.

Never miss a party...good for the nerves--like celery.

I'm shy, but I'm not clinically shy. I don't have social anxiety disorder or anything like that. I more have a gentle shyness. Like, I have a little trouble mingling at parties.

I'm super shy, especially at parties.

You don't want to miss out on something and feel like an idiot.

I don't like going out. I hate clubs. I hate being around too many people.

I've had mostly book parties, where I get very focused on inviting everyone and not forgetting anyone, although of course one always does, and being worried no one will show up, but mostly the book comes from going to parties and feeling very, for lack of a better word, anxious.

I am shy - going to parties kills me.

I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.

I hate parties. I don't like big crowded things.

Nothing terrifies me more than being social.

I would gladly do it but I am suffering from social phobia. I cannot manage being in a crowd of people.

I'm one of those people that if I go to a party, I can't remember my mother's name because I'm so nervous in a social situation.

I'm a social cripple in a cocktail party. My idea of a nightmare is people standing very elegantly dressed in a room with a drink in their hand. I'm just like, 'Urghh!'

I have a worry of people not liking me. I get scared walking into a room first, so I have to have people walk in before me so then people are distracted. It's hard.

I did not love going out to parties or even get-togethers, really - I went to the movies, which, if you think about it, is an isolating experience anyway - and this was because I had anxiety about interacting with people.

I used to go out and carouse. I was afraid to go to sleep because I thought I might miss something.

I'm one of those people who doesn't want to miss out on anything.

I hated missing the end of anything. I was always convinced that the bit I'd miss would be the best part.

Shyness is about the fear of social judgments - at a job interview or a party you might be excessively worried about what people think of you. Whereas an introvert might not feel any of those things at all, they simply have the preference to be in a quieter setting.

I don't think I'd be a party girl [even if I were] in college. When I was in high school, I remember seeing girls crying in the bathroom every Monday about what they did at a party that weekend. I never wanted to be that girl crying in the bathroom. But there are certain things that I would like to do but can't. Sometimes I don't get invited to things because my friends know it's going to be a hassle to take me.

I am very shy - really shy - I even had a stutter as a kid, which I slowly got over, but I still regress into that shyness. So I don't like walking into a crowded restaurant by myself; I don't like going to a party by myself.