Courteney Cox Quotes

I'm not an ace at small talk.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

When you have to do small talk, you know, 'Hello, how are you?' after that, I don't know what to do. I go, 'OK, then,' and walk away.

I hate small talk! I can't do it.

I'm dreadful at schmoozing at Hollywood parties.

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

I am very bad at schmoozing, and I'm not overtly charming in social situations.

As I started getting better and I had to go places and meet new people, there were times where you just couldn't keep to yourself. You had to speak to people.

I do a lot of schmoozing.

The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.

Young adults living with a stutter is hard work. How do they handle job interviews? What do they do when the phone rings? How do they 'chat someone up'? All these things the average person takes for granted prove to be a stammerer's biggest challenge.

I'm not very good at talking and being with people and being gregarious and outgoing. I love people, but I have great difficulty doing it.

I get nervous around girls for the first time. Once I'm in, I can take the reins and go. It's just the initial approach I'm really bad at.

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.

If there's a silence in a room I'll try to fill it as soon as humanly possible.

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

I genuinely enjoy talking one-to-one. I have no shyness about that.

I just like to talk to people. I don't know how to bridge the gap between getting to know someone and then schmoozing and sort of working contacts and business connections.