Ira Glass Quotes

I'm not very cool. I have a really hard time meeting people and stuff.

Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.

I'm hopeless at small talk and have a problem making eye contact.

I'm not great at small talk.

I genuinely enjoy talking one-to-one. I have no shyness about that.

I'm shy, but not on a one-to-one basis. Over the years, I have become acclimatised to a bit of publicity.

I'm much less shy in conversation than I am on my own.

I'm not good at small talk. I'm really not. I'm not that great at any talk.

I'm constantly struggling in interviews to engage and finish sentences, because I am being asked personal questions from somebody I don't know.

I'm not an ace at small talk.

Not only am I a shy person, I take a little while to say what I mean, especially in a social situation, and usually those move too fast for me to say anything at all.

For a long time, I couldn't just sit and have a conversation with people at a table without showing them a trick. I thought you just had to impress, it was about impressing, which of course is what you do if you don't feel very impressive.

I'm very shy in real life; I can't really hit on girls.

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.

Now I can walk into a room full of people I don't know and do my job. That's quite a massive thing to learn, I think.

I'm actually pretty shy in real life. But I guess in front of the camera, I focus.

I'm just terrible. At talking. With words.

I don't know how to talk to people I don't know.

I remember once acting really cool on a bus with this girl named Stephanie. When I got home, I realized that I had a really big zit on my forehead. If you have acne problems, you really shouldn't be acting like Don Juan. I should have been contrite - and apologized for exposing her to the angry pimple.

I don't know how to work a room. It's a real skill.

I get nervous before everything - dates, filming, award shows. I just don't want to say something stupid. But as soon as I step out on that stage, or as soon as I show up to a date, it all goes away, and I just have a great time with whoever I'm with.

I get nervous around girls for the first time. Once I'm in, I can take the reins and go. It's just the initial approach I'm really bad at.

It's hard because people often don't recognise shyness; they think it's just someone being rude. I have had to work to overcome that, especially if I'm meeting my readers at author events, because I don't want them to think I'm snooty or rude.

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

I don't know the first real thing about the dating game. I don't know how to talk to a specific person and connect. I just think you have to go to person by person and do the best you can with people in general.