Of course I don't want to go to a cocktail party...If I wanted to stand around with a load of people I don't know eating bits of cold toast I can get caught shoplifting and go to Holloway [women's prison].
Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.
Adam and I don't consider ourselves friends. We don't spend any time together that we don't have to.
If I didn't have to do press, I would not.
I am happiest in public, working in my world. Then I can be the star. That I can do. When I am not working, I am more guarded, set apart. It's not my life, that. I like interactions, but interaction that is not forced.
Forcing people together is an enjoyable conflict to watch, but I think it's even more enjoyable if they love each other.
When people are forced to interact to survive, their prejudices diminish.
Dating is kind of hard. Like dinner or something like that. Like a forced awkward situation is very strange. Especially for me, for some reason.
Few enjoy noisy overcrowded functions. But they are a gesture of goodwill on the part of host or hostess, and also on the part of guests who submit to them.
It is always terrible to be told to go play with people one doesn't know.
You'll reach into your wallet to brandish a photograph of a new puppy, and a friend will say, 'Oh, no - not pictures.'
I would say that if you don't feel like talking to the crowd something is wrong and if you force yourself to talk to them things will happen and to that extent things aren't choreographed.
I'd rather dig a ditch than go to a dinner party with people I don't know.
Nobody should feel like they can force themselves into your life how it suits them when it's toxic and unwanted.
I think if you push to get to know somebody, it's not a natural evolution.
The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation.
Besides, if I wanted to hear people speaking wall-to-wall French, all I had to do was remove my headphones and participate in what is known as ‘real life,’ a concept as uninviting as a shampoo cocktail.
What I miss [about church] is being forced to be in community with people that aren't the same as me.
As a fan, I hated most of 'The Day After Tomorrow' movie except for the part where Emmy Rossum and Jake Gyllenhaal were stuck in the library, and I thought, 'Oh, I like this now.' There's something about bringing people together in odd circumstances and exploring the petri dish of what happens.
I've had a few encounters: At a restaurant, this woman that was like, 'Oh my God, oh my God, can we take a picture with you? My son said not to, but I just had to. You my favorite 'Devils Girl!'
Society was nothing but a long, dull dinner party conversation in which one was forced to speak to one's partner on both the left and the right.
Christmas: the one time of year when you can’t avoid the nuts in your family muesli.
I didn't know it at the time, but Hitch didn't want to talk to me - he hated meeting with people he might have to reject. As it turned out, someone, maybe his agent, insisted that he interview me.
From the first day I joined that family, nothing could be done naturally any more.
People bursting into song in unison and then pointing it at me is maybe the worst thing I can think of, never mind that you have to pay good money to go be yelled/danced at.
