Nellie McKay Quotes

I'm not good at small talk. I'm really not. I'm not that great at any talk.

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

I'm hopeless at small talk and have a problem making eye contact.

When I came to New York, I was really awkward. I went to military academy for high school, so I didn't have the socialization that most kids do. When I got here, I was five years behind everybody. Talking to women was weird for me.

I'm not that smooth.

Sometimes I don't want to stand around a room full of strangers, chitchatting about nothing, so I'll come late to a party - and leave early. Though now that I'm saying this in a magazine, I'll probably never be invited to another one.

I don't know how to talk to people I don't know.

I never have anything to talk about.

I was nerdy and awkward and didn't know how to talk to people - except online.

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

I certainly have not the talent which some people possess," said Darcy, "of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in their concerns, as I often see done.

I was very much a late bloomer. That's not to say that girls didn't express interest in me from time to time, but I just, I did not know how to respond to that.

I'm the person who will go to a wedding and switch the place cards around because I don't want to sit next to someone I don't know, because I'm so bad at chatting to strangers.

I'm not a good small talker. I'm not into small talk, frankly.

I was painfully shy when I was a kid. I always thought when most people were born, part of the toolkit was teaching you how to relate to other people - and it was just left out of my toolkit.

I was a nervous kid, not great socially.

I don't know how to work a room. It's a real skill.

I'm not great at small talk.

I don't actually like dates. I get awkward as I never know what to do.

I'm not good at meeting people, and I'm not good at small talk.

The brain was not built to walk into a bar, where you know nobody, and start a conversation. That's not the way humanity has courted.

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.

I'm not good at chatting right away. Women have to be very patient with me, I suppose.

I was one of those weird children that just couldn't talk to people, so I kind of had to make myself be not like that because I knew it was going to hinder me.

I'm definitely on the spectrum of socially awkward.