Alison Lohman Quotes

As far as open conversations with random people, no I don't really enjoy them.

I like people too much or not at all.

I cannot do business. I cannot sit and say, 'How are you, the weather's great, how's your golf?' I'm like a bull in a china shop.

If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.

I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man... or, 'I like your country because the weather's good,' or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.

I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my age, and I didn't really have friends. I had a million acquaintances and no friends.

When you meet someone, ask about what hobby they have, not what they do. People always ask me about cooking, but I prefer to talk about tennis or boxing.

I'm not very good at talking and being with people and being gregarious and outgoing. I love people, but I have great difficulty doing it.

I'm very good at meeting people, very outgoing.

It's just hard to meet new people, in my position.

I'm not good at meeting people, and I'm not good at small talk.

One of the best places for a shy person to meet people is in a coffee shop. If you are a reader, bring a book and read it there - that gives a guy something to ask you about. Same goes for sketching, writing, or any hobby you can take with you.

You've gotta wonder what kind of vibe you're putting out there if you're having really creepy people come talk to you.

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.

One thing about the fantasy dinner party idea that no one considers is whether these people are going to get on. I would say John McEnroe and Ian McEwan, but what would they have to say to each other?

I love to meet people; it’s the only fun I have.

You're going to meet some people you don't necessarily click with, but that's just part of life.

I love to get out and meet people.

I haven't got the patience for small talk, although I once saw a woman standing on her own in the corner, and I realised it was Monica Lewinsky, and I had the nicest evening with her - she was charming.

Me at parties: 'Like, do you want to know the historical context of the prophet Jeremiah?'

Some people ain't approachable, and some people are.

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

As for 'drawing you out,' please believe I don't do such things deliberately, with an object -- It's only that I am, as a rule, far more interested in people than they are in me -- But it makes me a nuisance, I know: only an innocent nuisance.

I have my own way of dividing people, as I suppose most of us have. There are those whom I can talk to, and those whom I can't.

Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in.