Once I got divorced, there was this knee-jerk reaction to get back in the action and date. I think there's something wrong in that.
When I'm on a second date with a girl, I'll ask myself, 'Can I marry this person?' And we're just trying to decide between salmon and chicken.
Dating is pressure and tension. What is a date, really, but a job interview that lasts all night?
Keep dating and you will become so sick, so badly crippled, so deformed, so emotionally warped and mentally defective that you will marry anybody.
Right before I left New York, I had my manager tell me, 'You need to get a girl on your arm, or people will start talking.'
I hate dates. It becomes a weird auditioning process. And I've never had normal dating.
I've never dated anywhere else, so I only know L.A. dating, and I wouldn't wish it upon my worst enemy. I've pulled back and taken the pressure off of myself to figure it out, because there's so much pressure about status that dating has become this game where you pull out all your tricks.
Good supporters who have single daughters say, 'Hey, you need to take my daughter out.' And it's awkward.
I'm a bad dater - I'm just not good at it. It's so weird dating in this town. It's like high school. I get a lot of people who have their publicist call my agent to ask, 'Is she dating anyone?'
When I got old enough to date, I realized that Valentine's Day is just a commercial marketing scam to make men feel bad. So I let my boyfriends off the hook.
Sometimes we put so much effort into things we're doing, like dating or wedding planning, that we don't stop to think about whether or not we even want the results of that effort.
In America, going on a date is really more like 'interview night.' You have to give your resume.
People were endlessly trying to set me up with 'eligible' men, and I enjoyed going on a galaxy of dates.
I feel like a lot of people are very career-driven and there's pressure to be successful. You put off relationships. You put off those intimate relationships because you're just work-driven. It's a very sweet term, undateable.
There's a lot that needs to be fixed in dating for men and women in the U.S. - there's a lot of pressure on women to do things they may not want to do. And if you start out unequal, you are not going to end up with equality.
Anyone who walks out on stage, whether he's eight or 80, they'll go, 'Oh, Alesha, he'd be good for you.' I'm the butt of the single jokes.
When a single mom goes out on a date with somebody new. It always winds up feeling more like a job interview.
