Robert Morley Quotes

Men and women walked casually about as they did on the main floor, every now and then stopping one another, exchanging pleasantries or scraps of relevantly irrelevant information. Gossip.

I do a lot of schmoozing.

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.

Whenever you're starting a new show, you have these awkward first lunches and meetings that are sort of mandatory, and everybody shows up, but nobody knows each other.

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

I've always been resistant to parties and schmoozing.

I'm dreadful at schmoozing at Hollywood parties.

That's the beauty of living in New York City is that a good chunk of the media is here and willing to drink with you.

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.

Our profession is very much like going to a cocktail party, you check out the guest list.

I always figure, you come to a party, you gotta know somebody. And somebody leads to another person and leads to somebody else, somebody else. That's one of things that I really enjoy doing.

I get to meet really interesting people.

I've always liked the idea of walking into a cocktail party where there are different people and finding some connection with almost everybody in the room.

Once you choose to enter a WeWork, you choose to be part of something more 'we' than 'me.' People start coming together. They'll see each other in the elevator; they talk in the stairways. There's a thousand other things they do.

Cocktail parties for me can be nerve-racking. The brevity of conversations, the number of them - it's not my sweet spot.

I am very bad at schmoozing, and I'm not overtly charming in social situations.

It is the best part of the night. The classic interactive lines are 'Where are you from? What do you do for a living?' I almost always get something interesting.

Large cocktail parties are an infamous technique for ridding yourself of social obligations to people you usually don't know well or like much, which is such an unpromising beginning that I've rarely known one that recovered and turned into a great party.

If it were not for a goodly supply of rumors, half true and half false, what would the gossips do?

Nothing is more cheerful than talking about our friends' shortcomings.

Nobody can buy a hat without gossiping.

That's a big part of being a designer now: going out, having dinners, meeting people. Being in an ivory tower, you can feel very removed.

You spend the first term at Oxford meeting interesting and exciting people and the rest of your time there avoiding them