Paul Rudd Quotes

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

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

I do talk a lot - far more than my husband - but I'm not good at talking to a lot of people. I either talk a lot of rubbish - which I'm sure I do a lot of the time anyway - or I stare at the soup. I'm no good at social presentation.

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

I'm not great at small talk.

I'm not a real social person - I'm shy - and a lot of the business is just social.

I wouldn't say I handle attention well. I'd say I stumble over pick-up lines poorly. I'm not good at any of that.

I'm not great... in large groups of people, but I'm not shy anymore.

Some people are very good at that, communicating with the world; I'm not sure I'm suited to it.

I'm so socially awkward. I really had to put myself out there and meet new people.

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

I'm not very cool. I have a really hard time meeting people and stuff.

I'm shy. I am. I mean, if I get around, you know, in a room of a bunch of people especially I - you know, I don't know or - it takes me a while to warm up. I'm - and the real me, I'm not as witty as, you know, as the comic Wanda. The comic, she's had time to work on some things.

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

It's hard because people often don't recognise shyness; they think it's just someone being rude. I have had to work to overcome that, especially if I'm meeting my readers at author events, because I don't want them to think I'm snooty or rude.

I'm shy, but not on a one-to-one basis. Over the years, I have become acclimatised to a bit of publicity.

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.

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

I feel like in an interview situation, it's a kind of intimacy that I can understand and handle - versus in real life, when I'm much more of a bumbler and have a hard time.

I never have anything to talk about.

I'm not an ace at small talk.

I'm a small-town kid from Winnsboro, La., who grew up not really being comfortable talking to people.