Zack Greinke Quotes

I can't abide small talk.

There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.

I hate having to do small talk. I'd rather talk about deep subjects. I'd rather talk about meditation, or the world, or the trees or animals, than small, inane, you know, banter.

I'm trying to elevate small-talk to medium talk.

If a man comes up to me, I'm almost sure he's going to mention Rome, if it's a woman, it'll be 'Grey's Anatomy.'

There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.

I would never talk just to be social. Now, to sit down with a bunch of engineers and talk about the latest concrete forming systems, that's really interesting. Talking with animal behaviorists or with someone who likes to sail, that's interesting. Information is interesting to me. But talking for the sake of talking, I find that quite boring.

I'm looking for conversations that will be meaningful with people that want to have meaningful connections with an audience.

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.

It is possible to stand around with a cocktail in one's hand and talk with everyone, which means with no one.

I don't like business talkers, you know, people who are constantly like, 'Blah blah blah movies.' I find it incredibly boring.

The whole being-in-a-room interview thing, at a junket or a film festival, is very inhuman. You meet the person, have five or 10 minutes to talk, and it's not like a conversation.

I end up talking about really mundane things with my fans, and then they're kind of like, 'This is boring. I want to go talk to somebody else.' I think I bore my fans to death by over-talking to them.

Sometimes you actually get caught in the web of things where people are talking about... what kind of breakfast cereal you like.

I never have anything to talk about.

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

I like to reminisce with people I don't know.

When I see someone for the first time in a while, and they ask, 'How have you been?' or 'What have you been up to?', it's politeness but a bit of a conversation stopper.

With an interesting character, there's always something to say.

I find it really cheap when people talk about an issue just for the sake of talking and are not making any difference to the actual situation.

So much of what passes for conversation today is degraded. It's either about one-upmanship, or dreary trivia. Even the cut and thrust of wit and bons mots is a form of bedazzlement designed to stop conversations dead rather than broaden them.

If we're all talking about something that doesn't matter, it can be bean talk. If we're talking about something that we're talking about together, it could be bean talk.

Me at parties: 'Like, do you want to know the historical context of the prophet Jeremiah?'

I don't even know how to think about running out of things to talk about. Certain things are inescapable to me. I'm connected by the hip with so many things in the streets.

People are desperate for these breathier, longer, more in-depth conversations. And the only thing I can't provide in my show is the longer time.