Barbara Walters Quotes

My father found cocktail parties challenging.

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

Meetings ... are rather like cocktail parties. You don't want to go, but you're cross not to be asked.

Cocktail party: A gathering held to enable forty people to talk about themselves at the same time. The man who remains after the liquor is gone is the host.

The cocktail party has a simple function in modern society. Its basic purpose is to pay off social debts.

I'm out there talking to everyone. My days are filled with breakfast, lunches, dinner and drinks.

Our profession is very much like going to a cocktail party, you check out the guest list.

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.

Cocktail parties ... are usually not parties at all but mass ceremonials designed to clear up at one great stroke a wealth of obligations.

I don't play golf or all those things people normally do for business. I do parties. That's where I bring people in, showcase ideas and, in the end, do deals.

There must be some good in the cocktail party to account for its immense vogue among otherwise sane people.

To get fifty people to a cocktail party in New York, you ask one hundred. In Hollywood, you invite twenty.

I never did well meeting strangers, so my favorite part of partying as a couple was that I didn't need to strike up conversation from scratch. If you've ever had to go out and meet new people on your own, you would understand. It can be a bit of an awkward situation. If you're already out at a party with someone you know, it takes that pressure off.

A cocktail party is a place where you talk with a person you do not know about a subject you have no interest in.

Sometimes I make it to parties and sometimes I don't. Social life is always something you can go back to.

I've always been resistant to parties and schmoozing.

I'm dreadful at schmoozing at Hollywood parties.

I am not someone who likes cocktail parties or large dinner parties, but I have to attend them often. I much prefer very small dinners with close friends.

Wherever it is, as long as I have a room full of people ready to have a good time, I will take them there and I will keep them up late.

As an adult I've developed better social skills; I know how to do a conversation, I know how to do a party. I find them wearying, though, and I like that in lockdown no one expects me to go to them.

I have a talent for missing the best and greatest parties.

somehow at parties at which one stays standing up one seems to require to be more concentratedly intelligent than one does at those at which one can sit down.

Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateurs drunks, the bores.

Talk often, but never long; in that case, if you do not please, at least you are sure not to tire your hearers. Pay your own reckoning, but do not treat the whole company; this being one of the few cases in which people do not care to be treated, every one being fully convinced that he has wherewithal to pay.

It is the best part of the night. The classic interactive lines are 'Where are you from? What do you do for a living?' I almost always get something interesting.