Gregory Smith Quotes

Office life is very, very strange. It's like no other way of living. You have an intimacy with people who you work with in the office, yet if you meet them on the streets, you both look the other way because you're embarrassed.

People always ask me if I'm best friends with everyone I work with in telly - but no, not everyone you work with is your friend.

I find it very hard to believe that people would prefer an awkward picture with me than a normal conversation.

Good supporters who have single daughters say, 'Hey, you need to take my daughter out.' And it's awkward.

The idea that you've been friends for your whole life and then suddenly the other person becomes your job - it would be so weird. It would be hard not to become massively resentful.

A lot of people have jobs where they don't necessarily love the people they work with, it's just a part of life. That's not the person you'd hang out with in real life.

I don't really have any women in my life, actually those two - the women in my life are two married women who work at my office.

You've got to develop relationships. You can't do things just in a formal context.

My husband jokes that I'll invite people over for dinner and he won't know who they are or where I met them. But in my work world, I've never really been tempted to tell too much of my story.

Interestingly, I'm more closed on set than I am off set. On set, I'm closed. I don't want input. I want to concentrate on what I'm doing with this other person. But outside of that, I'm open. I'm everybody's friend, unless they don't like me.

Personal relationships are always the key to good business. You can buy networking; you can't buy friendships.

Well, my closest friends are still the ones that I went to school with, but it's nice to go to work, at the studios, and have people there that you're willing to talk to and have a good conversation with.

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

I met Mr. Hoover socially. I never talked to him about anything connected with his work. We just met him.

To establish personal relationships with the people you work with is stupid, because you never know when the winds will change. I try not to get too close to people.

Friends don't necessarily made good business or creative partners.

My friends and the people I know understand that I'm going to ask them what they're doing, how they're dating, who they're dating, where they're going and what they're doing. I'm constantly asking those questions and making sure I'm in touch with the customer.

I know I was a great friend to Tiger Woods. But when you have a relationship that's involves business and friendship - and the business part comes to an end - things always get a little blurry.

I am aloof by nature. I mind my own business. I'm good with everyone, and I get along fine with people. But work is work, and friendship is friendship. I never mix the two.

There are lots of colleagues for whom I have a great deal of personal affection. But they’re not necessarily the people I go do to get something done.

That's politics. After six o'clock, we can be friends, but before six, it's politics.

Awkwardness is such a gold mine for comedy.

It's nature that you're going to have relationships in your life, and sometimes it's with the people you work with.

I befriend most of my clients, and I like to go out with them. I like to socialize with them: They're interesting.

But amongst the drivers I don't have friends at all. They are not my friends. It would never work to have a friendship, so I don't make any effort to make friends.