Tamara Mellon Quotes

Look, every guy is nervous when they talk to girls, but I find that little bit of nervousness to be kind of fun.

I can be shy when I talk to women. I'm a shy dude.

I'm not good with pickup lines or flirting. I don't have that kind of self-confidence or natural charisma.

Around people I don't know, I'm totally at a loss.

I would like to visit with people who are so interesting and so... and there are so many wonderful people out there that I would love to have the chance to talk to for a longer time.

If you can't be funny, be interesting.

“Who are you?” One who has waited long for you to speak.

Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy.

I would never say that I'm good at being on dates. I think I like to try to find a connection with somebody, like, that's my main thing. I think that maybe if you find a connection with a girl on a date, that's like the No. 1 thing, and then it's like, 'Cool, that was a great date.'

I've never really had a first date! Well, I had kind of a first date. I went out with this kid. We went ice skating, but it was not fun. It was so terrible that I told him my curfew was a lot earlier than it really was.

Girls didn't really take much interest in me until I was about 14. But I knew how to talk to them very quickly. What I figured out - that my friends didn't - was you have to talk to women like you're not constantly trying to have sex with them. That seemed to work.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

I love to engage with people who come to see us.

To feel nervous; to feel threatened and vulnerable and alive and engaged in that sense when interacting with someone you're really attracted to? I think that's wonderful. That's usually the best part. In fact, it's almost always downhill from there.

I'm awkward around girls.

I feel like great TED Talks are ones that are a little bit subject to interpretation, that do provoke further conversation - and potentially controversy.

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.

I try to make things interesting and thought-provoking.

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

Always do something that requires you and your date to talk.

I still get a little nervous when talking to girls. Which is awful, and embarrassing, because I feel like I shouldn't.

I think you can make perfectly good television just from people who are genuinely interested, talking to people who genuinely know - simple as it sounds, it can be riveting.

A girl who is interesting and educated and can spark conversation - I find that extremely sexy.

A kiss with anyone, on or off camera, can be intimidating. I've been kissing for nearly two decades now, and I'm always convinced I'm not doing it right. Chemistry is so important in a great kiss. You can act your way through anything, but it's hard with a kiss.

I have a horror of boring someone or, worse still, of someone boring me. I said to my mother when I was seven, 'But, Mums, if it was only my husband and me in the house together, what would we talk about?' I've never wanted to answer my own question, and doubt I'll bother now.