Stephanie Beatriz Quotes

I haven't got the patience for small talk, although I once saw a woman standing on her own in the corner, and I realised it was Monica Lewinsky, and I had the nicest evening with her - she was charming.

I think it's a really big deal to be able to meet people outside the context of something like a conference room or someplace where everything feels like it's formal talk.

It takes me a while to come out of myself and get to know people.

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

I'm dreadful at schmoozing at Hollywood parties.

I've never been socially outgoing, but I suspect I've gotten more and more ambivalent about making new friends. I'm irritated by how-do-you-do chit-chat, but that's how new relationships usually begin.

I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, 'Hello, my name's Paul, will you be my friend?' But I found if I did an impression of the PE teacher or whatever and people laughed, then they did like me, and so then they started talking to me, rather than me making the initial overture and then maybe being rebuffed.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

I'm always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit.

Which, the first meeting with anybody is, you know, everybody is on their best behavior. It's only after you get to know them for a while that you figure out.

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.

It's hard to create new friendships outside sports.

It's much easier to get a reception from someone if there is an introduction versus randomly trying to get in front of people.

I totally lucked out by meeting a lot of amazing people. I guess it stems from going to shows and being confident enough to meet people and be able to talk to them like a normal person rather than have my head down all the time.

I am a fun guy with my friends. I take some time to warm up to a new person.

It wasn't until the second half of my first year that I realized you have to try to make friends and meet people at Harvard; the chances don't come to you.

Some of the most lasting contacts and friendships that I have developed began by just grabbing a drink or breaking bread with a stranger at an industry event.

I'm really interested in how people feel out new friendships, and at the start of college, that's really important.

I would like to have a more social life than I have.

I'm not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.

I always figure, you come to a party, you gotta know somebody. And somebody leads to another person and leads to somebody else, somebody else. That's one of things that I really enjoy doing.

I get to meet really interesting people.

We have lost the art of conversation. People are shy and don't know how to approach other people, and they are missing opportunities for relationships. And no one's entertaining at home anymore. They're not having people over for dinner.

If I go to a party, I'm not one to be the funniest person in the room at all.

I've always liked the idea of walking into a cocktail party where there are different people and finding some connection with almost everybody in the room.