Matt Cohen Quotes

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.

I'm not great at dating, but I need to do it to relax.

My perfect first date? Maybe a concert or a football game. That would be my ideal first date, but would the girl like it? I don't know.

When you're a guy and meet a girl the first time, you do whatever it takes.

I think, for a shy person - and I was very shy until my mid-20s - having been to an all-girls' school is not brilliant on the boyfriend front later. Because when I went to university, it was definitely like meeting a new species of people. Suddenly, at age 19, I was thinking: 'Can you speak to these people?' I was very, very nervous.

Dates are always hard. You don't want to be too dressed up or too casual.

Working with new people can be really hard and nerve-wracking. When you don't know the person, it's like being on a blind date.

When you go for first date, you are so conscious about what you are wearing, how you smell, how much money you have in your wallet. You have to plan the day - you have to plan the traffic - but in a relationship, you take all the things for granted.

One of the most overwhelming things about dating is imagining going on an entire dinner date for an evening with someone you don't even know you have chemistry with yet.

My first date was with a girl named Cessi. We'd had a beautiful relationship over the phone all summer long. Then she came home and we met to go out for the first time to the movies. When I saw her I was petrified. I couldn't even look her in the eye to talk to her.

For every man that ever walked the Earth, except maybe the sociopaths, when it comes to talking to pretty girls... it's just stark terror.

You know, I'm not sure I ever even had a blind date!

The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.

I'm the person who will go to a wedding and switch the place cards around because I don't want to sit next to someone I don't know, because I'm so bad at chatting to strangers.

I'm not really a pick-up-line guy. I don't know what I do.

Blind dates are treacherous. You don't know who this person is. You wonder, 'Should I call my grandma during coffee to get out of this?'

You get older, you start meeting girls, you want to impress them. And if you happen to know an instrument, what you do is turn on the radio and try to figure out how to play popular songs.

A first date should be elegant. In comfortable surroundings. A place with excellent food, where you can talk easily and get to know each other.

I love going on dates and talking.

I'm sure I've said some pretty bad pick-up lines.

I don't actually like dates. I get awkward as I never know what to do.

Look, every guy is nervous when they talk to girls, but I find that little bit of nervousness to be kind of fun.

No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.

I was a bad dater, and up until 8th grade I went to an all boy's school. So, by the time I hit high school I was a bit freaked out by women in general.

I'm making a movie about relationships, and I'm surrounded by guys scared of talking to girls.