Steve Rushin Quotes

My most disastrous date was not so much a disaster as uncomfortable for both parties involved.

I'm a bad interview because I want to always feel like I'm being totally honest, but at the same time, I'm absolutely paranoid. That combination results in a lot of spaces.

Everything about a date is weird, especially if it's a new person you don't really know. You want to take them somewhere you think they're going to like, but you don't want to ask that question because you want to look like you're in control of the situation. So I think dates are just weird in general.

Working with new people can be really hard and nerve-wracking. When you don't know the person, it's like being on a blind date.

When I try to be funny, it always makes me more nervous that I'm trying too hard, and then my brain that already thinks too much jumps into hyper drive, and I light-speed start talking 'Star Trek' to someone who's talking 'Star Wars.' Anyway, it doesn't work out usually when I 'try' to be funny.

Generally, I think what guys do is they get your number, because if I interview you on my show we can exchange information and I don't have a problem with that. But I think sometimes people are nervous to say things to me because they don't know if I'll blow them up on the air.

It's bad enough on a first date trying not to say something dumb without having three Secret Service guys with you.

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

My worst habit is probably awkward laughing. I always awkward laugh, like when you're talking to someone and no one is saying anything, so I'll do an awkward laugh. I wish I didn't do that.

…and you smile back and try not to think about the fact that you have nothing, absolutely nothing, to say to each other.

I think it gets uncomfortable when you try to act like you didn't just tell a joke that bombed.

My first date was with a girl named Cessi. We'd had a beautiful relationship over the phone all summer long. Then she came home and we met to go out for the first time to the movies. When I saw her I was petrified. I couldn't even look her in the eye to talk to her.

I was definitely nervous turning up on my first day to shoot with Woody Allen.

I have a hard time with interviews, because I'd rather hear about the interviewer.

I'm the world's worst after-dinner speaker. I need pictures to respond to. I was the voice of the lottery balls once and got the sack.

I'm always shy when I meet people I admire so I wouldn't be able to say anything rather than, 'How do you do? Love you! Bye!'

At parties, I'll start talking and notice everyone is looking at me and feel dumb and say, 'Forget it,' and then start eating things.

I hate being interviewed. I'm like, 'Aaaarrgghh!' I don't like talking about myself.

I'm one of those people that if I go to a party, I can't remember my mother's name because I'm so nervous in a social situation.

I always felt I had to fill silences, usually by singing or whistling. It was nerves and shyness, really.

I'm constantly struggling in interviews to engage and finish sentences, because I am being asked personal questions from somebody I don't know.

I've always been a slow starter. My first date was with a girl called Cessi. We had a beautiful relationship over the phone all summer, and then when we met, I couldn't look her in the eye.

I think what probably happens when you put two awkward/clunky people together is that their awkward/clunky world seems like a normal world.

I'm not a very good interview, usually.

I did Robert Pattinson's first live interview for 'Twilight' and he was so nervous.