I'm Just Not Okay Quotes

#1. People wonder aloud about whether I am an okay mother. That is obviously painful because it's so important to me. It's hard to hear that people think I'm not a capable mother and a good person, that they just think I'm nuts.

Angelina Jolie

#2. I'm not some three-hundred-year-old pervert who kisses teenage girls, okay? I'm the same age as you. Born just like you.

Kelly Keaton

#3. You curate information that you want to receive. It's a lot different because I'm not asking you if it's okay, I'm just saying I'm following your updates. That's why I don't think of Twitter as a social network.

Biz Stone

#4. I'm not all you need, and I don't even want to be. I just want to love you, for the rest of my life, and as long as you let me do that, we'll be okay.

Amanda Hocking

#5. Warily, she dares to allow me a smile. "It's okay. It's just ... I'm not too good at talking to people." She looks away again as her shyness smothers her. "So, do you think it'd be all right if we don't talk?

Markus Zusak

#6. I'm going to have to work out even more now tomorrow to make up for all the potatoes and bread. Okay. I feel bad. That was a lie. I'm not going to work out at all. That sounds just awful.

T.J. Klune

#7. I'm not really much of a genre guy. I think that audiences don't need that anymore where you just need a very specific genre. Audiences are very sophisticated, and as long as it's fun, it's okay and entertaining.

Natalie Portman

#8. You're beautiful, but you're somewhere else. That's okay. I can handle that. But we won't continue as friends, not just now. I like you as a lover, not a friend.

Luke Davies

#9. You're going to be okay," I said, but my voice was wavering and I was shaking. "It's probably not even that bad, and you're just being a big drama queen as usual.

Rachel Hawkins

#10. I'm just trying to illustrate that it's okay to be different - not that it's good, not that it's bad, but that it's all right. I'm trying to tell kids to have a good time and to encourage them to be creative and to question things,

Paul Reubens

#11. Someone once told me to "be a black belt at whatever you do." In other words, don't just be good or okay - be the best you can be. Not only do I apply that to my work as an actress, but I also went out and got my black belt.

Heather Hemmens

#12. People don't want to think ... I mean, they don't! They just want to say, 'Oh, okay, feminists are humorless man-haters,' and that's simply not the case. There are radical people and radical ideas in absolutely every movement, but that doesn't mean they define the ideals.

Roxane Gay

#13. Even if I screw up in my personal life, as long as I'm not destroying myself, I just think, "Okay, I screwed up." I'm not Mother Theresa.

Steve Coogan

#14. You want me, don't you?" he asked, and I nodded. "Say it. Out loud."
Did he just quote Twilight? No matter.
"Ah wah oo." I managed. Not as sexy when you're sucking someone's thumb. But that's okay. This was happening.

Alice Clayton

#15. Playing Karen was so satisfying that it almost cured my acting bug completely. Not that I had conquered the world of acting. It was just that I had something to prove to myself when I started Will & Grace. Now I feel like, okay, well, I've satisfied that.

Megan Mullally

#16. Did you smoke something this morning and not share?"
Jacque rolled her eyes. "Do you really think I have to smoke something to get happy when I wake up next to Fane every morning?"
"Okay, point to you," Jen said, waving Jacque off.

Quinn Loftis

#17. You okay?"
Just waiting for the water to boil. Burning shower. One of the only things that helps when I'm totally freaking out."
I'm not sure how to respond. "So," I whisper, "you want anything?"
Yeah," She replies, sarcastic "I want to be bulimic, but the vomit grosses me out.

Albert Borris

#18. Okay, maybe I'm not cooler than you, but I felt like I was for a second. Just let me have my moment!

Eric Halvorsen

#19. Did somebody whisper something? I look left then right. Uh oh. I think I'm hearing voices now. Not, I AM hearing voices I THINK I'm hearing voices. Okay not voices, just a voice. Is thinking you heard it better or worse than knowning you heard it? Does the distinction matter?

Penelope Fletcher

#20. I am not okay. I will be okay, but right now I am not okay. I want my husband to put his arms around me, to console me, to baby me a little bit. Just for a second.

Gillian Flynn

#21. Life can be tough sometimes. But I think it just starts with admitting, 'Okay, the world's not perfect, how do we live our lives within that and not be miserable?'

Amy Lee

#22. Okay,' I said quietly. 'I'll do whatever you say. Just remember not to talk down to me. I'm not your student anymore. I'm your equal now.'
He glanced away from the side of the road just long enough to give me a surprised look. 'You've always been my equal, Roza.

Richelle Mead

#23. It's okay to be a bit chubby, but I want you to be healthy. Not just for what we do, but because I want you to be around for a long time.

Robert Dahlen

#24. Sometimes I get ideas from childhood. In 'The Hat', Hedgie starts getting teased about his hat, and he just pretends that everything is okay. That's the advice that my mother gave me - not to get mad and pretend that everything is okay. And it worked.

Jan Brett

#25. Are you scared?"
"Yes! It freaks me out, okay?"
Wyatt laughed. "Noah! You have a black belt!"
"What good does that do against ghosts and hobgoblins? Just because I can kick your ass doesn't mean I'm not tender.

Abigail Roux

#26. And I'm okay, I really am, most of the time. But sometimes, I'm just not.

Tammara Webber

#27. People always say, 'How is it to be so successful?' I'm not successful yet. Richard Branson is successful. That's successful. Michael Jackson was successful. U2 was successful. I'm just a guy, doing okay. But I'm a happy guy doing okay.

Afrojack

#28. You're okay, sweetheart. You're okay. Just hold on, I'm not gonna let anything happen to you.

Nicole Jacquelyn

#29. I know you're feeling worried,
But I promise I'm okay.
You think I'm missing all the fun,
But I don't want to play.
And I'm not feeling lonely;
Yeah, I've got a friend with me.
I'm just keeping this corner company.

Margo T. Rose

#30. I was just sitting in Target, just getting over my cold. I blew my nose and I see these people looking at me and kind of whispering and pointing. Finally, I went, 'Is everything okay? Did I do something wrong? Do I have a booger on my face and no one's telling me?' I'm just not used to it.

Atticus Shaffer

#31. Maybe I'm in Hell. That's okay, I'm not scared of Hell - it's just Heaven for bad people.

Steven Moffat

#32. It's strange," I say, rubbing my feet against his. "I feel like I should be sad, but I'm not. It's not that I won't miss you, but it just feels like-"
"Like everything is going to be okay anyway," he says, finishing my thought.

Sarah Ockler

#33. Aunt Libby: "I think I'm getting married! I've been dying to tell you."
Raven: "You are? Congrats! Dad didn't mention ... "
Aunt Libby: "Well, okay, it's not official or anything. In fact, we haven't officially gone out yet. I just met him last night.

Ellen Schreiber

#34. I'm not going anywhere, Noel." "You are, and it's okay. Just ... I need you to take me with you.

Rainbow Rowell

#35. Inuyasha: "Stop blubbering already, I'm fine."
Kagome:"I'm not blubbering."
Inuyasha:"Okay, crying."
Kagome:"I am not."
Inuyasha:"Are too."
Kagome:I am NOT!"
Inuyasha:"You are so!"
Kagome:"I am not, so just shuddup and sit!

Rumiko Takahashi

#36. I just don't fucking know, okay? I've never known. My entire life is just me pretending - not very well - that I have a clue what I'm doing. But I don't. I just don't. I don't have . . . like . . . a dream or a goal, and I don't know how to get one, or what's wrong with me that I don't.

Alexis Hall

#37. Dated when we were sophomores and we've been hooking up occasionally ever since. But we came out here and I was going to end it."
" ... she just said it's over, okay? So that's it. It's over. I'm not cheating.

John Green

#38. I used to not like being called a 'woman architect': I'm an architect, not just a woman architect. Guys used to tap me on the head and say, 'You are okay for a girl.' But I see the incredible amount of need from other women for reassurance that it could be done, so I don't mind that at all.

Zaha Hadid

#39. Okay, you promised, just two friends having dinner." I slurred. He shook his head and laughed.
"No you said that not me," He smirked.

S.L. Ross

#40. it's okay if college isn't your thing. I'm sure there's a pole somewhere with your name on it, but next time you might not want to buy your tits off Craig's List. Just sayin'.

Candace Vianna

#41. I'm concerned about my daughter because she will not believe in Santa Claus. No matter what I say to her, she just doesn't buy it, and she's 2. I refuse to give it up. I say, 'There is a Santa Claus,' and she says, 'Okay, Mommy. In pretend world, right?' She really doesn't believe.

Salma Hayek

#42. Don't leave this time, okay? I wanna wake up just like this in the morning."
"I'm not going anywhere.

Jamie McGuire

#43. Okay, then I'll just say I love you. There is nothing in this world more important to me than you are. I'm only content when you're near. My whole purpose is to be what you need me to be. It's not poetry, but it's from my heart. Will that do?

Colleen Houck

#44. I tell everybody, I'm tired of being jerked around. Okay? So let's just not pretend. I don't have fuck for a heart. You people are not going to make me feel anything. You are not going to get to me.

Chuck Palahniuk

#45. Yes," I said "You were saved by a girl. Horrible, isn't it?"
He slid out and looked down at my bare legs. "Not just a girl, but a half-naked one. Now that's hot. If I'm still unconscious, don't wake me, okay?

Kelley Armstrong

#46. I'm never going to be content with a comeback when you end up losing ... You can't just accept being in a game that's close and end up losing it. It's just not okay.

Charlie Weis

#47. I'm sorry, Hen. I still have feelings for you. It's just that my band needs a real bass player now. We're not a joke band anymore. Okay, sweetie?'
That was how Petra Dostoyevsky fired me.

Daniel Ehrenhaft

#48. Okay - there's no easy way to explain this, so I'm just going to say it. We're not human, Sophie.
-Keeper of the Lost Cities

Shannon Messenger

#49. Syn opened a door to their right. "Sumi? Get in here and let Hauk know that you're okay. I can't do anything with this unreasonable, surly bastard."
"He's not unreasonable. He's just fierce.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#50. I think we could be friends," he said, falling into step with her. "It's perfect because I wouldn't fall in love with you, like I do with the mermaids. Girls always seem so exotic. But it would be okay with you, because you're more like ... you know. Not like a girl." He shrugged.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

#51. I'm Carter Kane-part-time high school freshman, part-time magician, full-time worrier about all the Egyptian gods and monsters who are constantly trying to kill me.
Okay, that last part is an exaggeration. Not all the gods want me dead. Just a lot of them.

Rick Riordan

#52. If you're able to think, then I'm not doing this right."
"You're doing okay, but you can always try harder."
"Harder I can do," he murmured against her neck, and he did just that.

Kate Perry

#53. I always see something for sure one time and then I make myself see it a second time. The second time is like, 'Okay, I'm not that bad. I'm not that horrible.' But the first time I just think I'm god-awful.

Eva Mendes

#54. This is real, this is me,' I said.
She blinked. 'Did you just quote Camp Rock at me? That's not very pop punk."
'I've gotta go my own way.'
'Okay, firstly, that's High School Musical...

Alice Oseman

#55. Nobody tells young writers it's okay if you're not very good, you'll get better. So I just thought I'm not very good, so I should try to do every other thing besides writing. That's how I ended up being a hitchhiker, a world traveler, and a mathematician.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

#56. One thing I've learned best from my mom is to be yourself and not everyone will get you and that's okay. I try to bring that into everything that I do and just understand that I will not be everyone's cup of tea and that's fine.

Tyler Oakley

#57. Every time people ask me if I'm okay, it's just a reminder that I'm not OK at all.

Unknown

#58. I'm just not one of these guys who, like, you know, woke up with a six-pack. I need Skittles. I have to eat very particularly and I have to work out like a madman. And then it looks like ... okay.

Max Greenfield

#59. Producers don't like the director who ignores their opinion - but I always try not to be the nicest person when making a movie. It's easy to do that. Just say 'Yes sir', Alright', 'Okay' - but they're not seeing the movie because if they can, they should be directing the movie.

Ryuhei Kitamura

#60. Maybe I'll just give up on boys. Okay, maybe not. I mean they're just so cute!

Jillian Dodd

#61. It didn't get better, not in my book. I mean if you weren't looking too hard at what just happened or who might be down the road or at some other stuff. Maybe living well is the art of not looking at that, at the other stuff, when you don't have to. Or being okay with it.

Peter Heller

#62. I'm sorry. Let me help you with those." I stood up quickly
and began to pick up the books she was carrying; she just sat
there rubbing her head.
"Are you okay?" I asked worriedly. I really hoped I didn't give
her a concussion; believe me, not the first time.

Sophie Wilkinson

#63. When you feel sad, it's okay. It's not the end of the world. Everyone has those days when you doubt yourself, and when you feel like everything you do sucks, but then there's those days when you feel like Superman. It's just the balance of the world. I just write to feel better.

Mac Miller

#64. I just need to be mad for a little while, okay? I know it might not be the most mature thing, but there it is.

Cynthia Hand

#65. Don't try to sound cool. Guys do that all the time, and I'm telling you it's a complete turnoff, okay? Just be you. You're cute; live with it. But don't try to sound like James Bond or something, because you're not. - Summer Sumner

Ridley Pearson

#66. Are ... you okay?" Mark asked, hoping his friend was just tired. "I'm not," the Toad answered, his face quivering as if he were about to cry. "I'm not, Mark. I'm not okay at all. There are things living inside my skull.

James Dashner

#67. I knew at the time my haircut was pretty damn god-awful, so I was just hoping that I wasn't one of the joke ones. And they put me through to Hollywood and I thought, "Well okay, maybe I'm still one of the joke ones but at least I'm not terrible?"

David Cook

#68. I didn't bring my headphones, I'd watched the two movies they had played and I was just like, 'Can we please find a donor that wants to give us a private jet? This is not Okay.'

Cat Osterman

#69. I never tell my boyfriend that I'm busy when I'm not. No matter how effective they are, cheap techniques like that just don't agree with me. So it's always okay, it's always all right. In my opinion the surest way to hook a man is to be as open with him as possible.

Banana Yoshimoto

#70. What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks 'the cat sat on the mat, that is that, not a rat,'.... And it might be just the most boring and awful stuff. But I try. When I'm writing, I write. And then it's as if the muse is convinced that I'm serious and says, 'Okay. Okay. I'll come.

Maya Angelou

#71. In Naples, there were kids who were just lost. You knew they were never going to get back to what they'd been, or have a normal life. And then there were other ones who you though, maybe they will. What I'm saying is, we're the survivors. Not everyone is. But we are. Okay?

Jennifer Egan

#72. Okay, enough self-pity. I'm not doomed. Things will just be harder than planned. I have all I need to survive.

Andy Weir

#73. When I first tried the American accent, for a moment I thought I could never be an actor because I just could not do it. But then I thought, 'Okay, it'll just be something that I work at until I get it.'

Margot Robbie

#74. I mean , I never even had to really come out to my parents. They always knew, and it was always okay. Or not even okay, better than that. Not something that had to be evaluated at all. It just was. Like having brown hair.

Julie Buxbaum

#75. Don't worry. I know the truth."
"The truth about what?"
Cam stepped back. "You want to say yes, but you're just not ready."
My jaw dropped.
"It's okay." His grin turned cocky. "I'm a lot to handle, but I can assure you, you'll have fun handling me.

J. Lynn

#76. -Fuck- He looks frustrated -I insulted you again. I didn't mean to do that. I'm not trying to be a dick, okay?-

-Of course you're not trying. You just are-

Elle Kennedy

#77. We're not dating. We're not a couple. I don't want people to think something's going on that isn't," she said.
Ben stared at her.
"I just came in your mouth."
Beatriz glared at him.
"Okay, good point," she said, smiling. "Lunch it is then.

Tiffany Reisz

#78. I just want to know if you're okay, he says, so soft I barely hear it through the static.
I'm not, not at all; but his worry gives me the strength I need to lie. To pull back and smile and tell him I'm fine.

Victoria Schwab

#79. I know a lot of stuff, not only about you, about me (of course) and many other people.... "So how I don't know??" you ask yourself??
You never asked me and even you asked me you never understood me. You just said "Okay"... and that's all.

Deyth Banger

#80. Don't defend them like it's okay. Because it's not. I won't let them do that to you again. I'm just warning you, I'll make you leave with me if I think that -

Rebecca Donovan

#81. Now I'm in a situation where I have to plan very far ahead because there are people who are selling ads, so I have to really know what I'm going to do months in advance. If something's taking me a little bit longer to research, that's not okay. I can't take longer. I have to just get it done.

Karina Longworth

#82. I'm sorry, Heather, but everything was not just fine before I got here. You know how I know that? Because you're dead. Okay? You are dead. Dead people don't have lockers, or best friends, or boyfriends. You know why? Because they're dead.-Suze Simon

Meg Cabot

#83. Okay, so we're in Georgia. I can do this. I'm not just the new girl. I'm a vampire. I don't have to be afraid of mean girls and gossip anymore. I could snap their necks in half - er, not that I will or anything, but it's nice to know that I can.

Tamara Summers

#84. Adam glanced up. Brown eyes took my measure. He looked just like he did in all those photographs. Okay. Now I needed to not get fried as I talked his handsome ass into surrendering.

Ilona Andrews

#85. can't help but smile. Sure, I have no idea how I'm going to come up with a viable experiment on emotions, but I'm not worrying about it on my own. Just the 'we' in Freya's sentence makes me feel like everything will be okay. Eventually.

Anonymous

#86. Will you let me know when you get your superpower?" He nods, and his fingers slide across the base o my neck. I love that he touches me so much more. "I have to warn you though, I may not have one." "That's okay," I say. "Sometimes I like the idea of just being mortal with you.

Krista Ritchie

#87. If something isn't working out in one aspect of my career, it's not any big neurotic, crazy phase for me, it's just something that I accept, and that's okay. I'm not going to keep banging my head against the wall.

Irene Cara

#88. Not sure why you have to show me now, but okay. I'll just tell my penis to take a few hours off, go get a beer or something. -Rob Colter

Toni Blake

#89. I'm not trying to look for pity or sympathy. I was just surprised that so many people in the world of entertainment seemed to be okay with misogyny and homophobia as long as they were profiting from it.

Moby

#90. We sat on the picnic bench, not talking, not looking at each other, but being quiet and okay. The rain was almost gone, nothing but a thin chilly fog. For now, I just wanted to sit on the picnic bench with him and not be anything but fine and uncomplicated.

Brenna Yovanoff

#91. I decide what character I am. I allow myself to become another person. Because if I'm just Stephanie, I'm not comfortable. When I have to jump and do all these things, I feel so silly, but if you become someone else, it's okay.

Stephanie Seymour

#92. If you look at the actual movies that I've done, the whole struggle is to get to that point, so it's not something that you just have so easy ... But it's okay. It doesn't bother me. I've done okay so far.

Kristen Stewart

#93. I am super awkward at social situations in general, and there's some major stuff going down, so I'm not going to hold to any sort of societal standard, and I'm just going to pretend like we've known each other long enough to say what's on our mind, and I hope that's okay.

Myra McEntire

#94. I am not dramatic, okay? My presence just commands a certain kind of attention-

Tahereh Mafi

#95. Mom. I have something to tell you. I'm undead. Now, I know you may have some preconceived notions about the undead. I know you may not be comfortable with the idea of me being undead. But I'm here to tell you that undead are just like you and me ... well, okay. Possibly more like me than you.

Cassandra Clare

#96. Man, I'm just into Buddhism, and I'm at peace with the fact that me, as this person, probably gonna not be around. Think about a hermit crab, okay? And it's a shell. It's like, they go from one shell to the next. And that's what I am. I'm just a hermit crab changin' shells.

Danny McBride

#97. I had someone correct my grammar once on a blind date, and within the first 10 minutes the date was over. You just don't correct somebody's grammar. That's just not okay. I'm from Tennessee, so I probably say everything wrong. I might have said 'ain't,' or something like that.

Reese Witherspoon

#98. With the mere click of a mouse, I can be put in my place but good via Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, or Google+, just to name a few. (But not MySpace, which has been a ghost town since 2008. I hope Tom's okay.)

Jen Lancaster

#99. I'm okay with who I am.You might not understand me. That's okay as I don't understand you.We can still be friends, we just have to accept our differences.

Tina J. Richardson

#100. I do not stand on protocol. If you just call me Excellency, it will be okay.

Henry A. Kissinger