Jerzy Kosinski Quotes

My father found cocktail parties challenging.

I go out very rarely in Paris. If it's a fashion party at a nightclub, I wouldn't dream to go. People come to you for your work, not because you go to all their parties.

Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our most prominent and influential people.

Let those who like society better have it.

I've always been resistant to parties and schmoozing.

I used to hang out by the food table at parties because you don't have to talk to anybody. If you do then you can talk about the food.

I just like to talk to people. I don't know how to bridge the gap between getting to know someone and then schmoozing and sort of working contacts and business connections.

We have lost the art of conversation. People are shy and don't know how to approach other people, and they are missing opportunities for relationships. And no one's entertaining at home anymore. They're not having people over for dinner.

I have a very active social life. It may look glamorous, and it is, but it also takes an enormous amount of time.

As an adult I've developed better social skills; I know how to do a conversation, I know how to do a party. I find them wearying, though, and I like that in lockdown no one expects me to go to them.

I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of the best class.

In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them.

I'm not a good small talker. I'm not into small talk, frankly.

I'm not so much of a joiner.

I never liked the bar scene. I tried to like it. I would give it a try every three or four months. I'd think, tonight I'm going out. But I never met anybody in that circumstance.

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

I don't ever have time for friends or anything like that.

Now when I'm not working, I don't really hang out with the young comics.

I can go days without meaningful human interaction.

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

The brain was not built to walk into a bar, where you know nobody, and start a conversation. That's not the way humanity has courted.

Spare a thought for the poor introverts among us. In a world of party animals and glad-handers, they're the ones who stand by the punch bowl. In a world of mixers and pub crawls, they prefer to stay home with a book. Everywhere around them, cell phones ring and e-mails chime and they just want a little quiet.

I'm very social. It's just most of my friends are not actors.

Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.

If the night's right and the people are right, of course I want to be out, I want to be socializing. I don't want to be in my studio 24 hours a day for the whole rest of my life.