Sam Yagan Quotes

If you're entering a room for the first time, do it the way you would in life - look around; see how they have the furniture arranged. If your character is meeting another character for the first time, meet them the way you would in life.

I'm not good at chatting right away. Women have to be very patient with me, I suppose.

A lot of times, when I interact with someone for the first time, I don't want to see the presentation.

I'm not great at small talk.

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

The real intimidating stuff is the scene where you show up for the first day. You kind of square off, and that is where you look each other in the eye.

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.

When you're a guy and meet a girl the first time, you do whatever it takes.

I'm not an ace at small talk.

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.

You know, if you meet someone for the first time, they're not going to bite you.

I do a lot of schmoozing.

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

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

Whenever you're starting a new show, you have these awkward first lunches and meetings that are sort of mandatory, and everybody shows up, but nobody knows each other.

Nothing is more important than when you see someone for the first time, and you get that feeling where you can't move or speak or do anything until you know that person and take a sense of who they are with you.

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.

When you meet someone for the first time, that's not the whole book. That's just the first page.

I'm dreadful at schmoozing at Hollywood parties.

The first time my father saw me in the flesh was on the stage, which is a bit weird. We went out to dinner, and he was charming and sweet, but I did all the talking.

When you start a movie, it's not like other kinds of work that you have when you know your boss for years or colleagues for years. You're meeting everyone, mostly, for the first time. You have to get comfortable with those people so you can perform, because the first thing that is going to shut you down is any kind of anxiety.

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.

The brain was not built to walk into a bar, where you know nobody, and start a conversation. That's not the way humanity has courted.

When I meet people for the first time, I'm friendly but shy. I'm much less outwardly nervous than I used to be, but I still get anxious sometimes.