My interactions with Sorkin were agonisingly weird. He is by far the weirdest person I have ever met. I had dinner with him and a few hours before I got an e-mail from his assistant saying, 'Sean, this does not need to be a long conversation. Aaron is only going to use it to win your trust.'
Adam and I don't consider ourselves friends. We don't spend any time together that we don't have to.
[Grover Cleveland] had a sort of patent way of shaking hands which he probably invented for self-protection. He grabbed the visitor's hand, gave it a slight squeeze, and dropped it like a hot potato. He never under any circumstances whatsoever permitted a visitor to grip his large, fat hand.
Dan Rather and I just aren't especially chummy.
Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.
I think what probably happens when you put two awkward/clunky people together is that their awkward/clunky world seems like a normal world.
Whenever I was with Kevin Pollak, I had to leave the room.
Much awkwardness ensued.
[Referring to LBJ:] ... one of the few politicians with whom I found it uncomfortable to be in the same room.
When he talked his eyes went away from mine and then he forced himself to look straight at me and he began to explain and I knew that he felt very strange with me and that he hated me, and it was funny sitting there and talking like that, knowing he hated me.
The thing that drives me nuts is when I get stopped in a crowded place, and they look at me and say, 'Who are you?' I don't know if they're friends or fans, and I say, 'I'm Annabella Sciorra', and they say, 'What have you done?' So I start to give them my resume. It's so embarrassing.
I once had dinner with Madonna and I wasn't nervous but within about a minute I found myself talking about underwear.
He does not shake hands, having experienced some injury by the frequent and too forcible use the "dear people" have made of that avenue to his heart.
On William Henry Harrison's inauguration.
I don't remember anyone who could stand being in my company for more than five hours without running into the street.
…and you smile back and try not to think about the fact that you have nothing, absolutely nothing, to say to each other.
I'd like to get out of here without having to talk to the producer.
When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.
It's weird because I once lost a job because I had a chemistry read with the lead actor, and I could tell we had negative chemistry. He was very lovely, but you could tell. We had the chemistry of two chairs.
I mean, sometimes when you do a show or a campaign with a designer, you get along with them really well and you become friends. And then, sometimes, people are just a bit... weird.
When I was growing up, my white friends would call me: 'Hey, Chief!' Even when I go to work now, people call me 'Chief.'
I'm always shy when I meet people I admire so I wouldn't be able to say anything rather than, 'How do you do? Love you! Bye!'
Fans are afraid to meet me. They're sort of afraid for their lives and won't look me in the eye.
Awkwardness is the consciousness of a false position.
My most disastrous date was not so much a disaster as uncomfortable for both parties involved.
My first interview at 'SI,' I sat in silence next to Guy LaFleur for five minutes on the New York Rangers team bus until he finally broke the ice. Those early interviews, every one of them was like a terrible first date.
