Social Encounters Quotes

I've got friends all around the world, but it still never ceases to amaze me when I come to a place on the other side of the planet that I've always imagined going to, and to get there and be meeting people all over on the street who know me - it's very exciting and humbling.

I very rarely came across rude or disrespectful people. I don't know how I slipped by all of them, but I honestly can't think of one experience off the top of my head that was like that. I'm sure they're there, but I'd have to think really hard to recall them.

There have been a couple of times when kids that weren't nice to me in high school are like, 'Hey, man!' And I'm just like, 'Yeah. Thank you very much.'

I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people.

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

When you run into someone in NY it is usually a pleasant surprise. When you run into someone in LA you usually had a car accident.

My life hasn't changed that much. Sure, people recognize me, and airports can get tough, but the people who stop me tend to be real nice.

I like to be able to get up and go and buy a pint of milk without bumping into 20 people I know.

I've always been relatively reserved with my social encounters.

I don't think I've played a lot of crazy people.

I often run into wrestlers at comic conventions or wrestling events, and it could be Tito Santana or Demolition, and I'm just flooded with memories. It's always nice to see one of your old mates, especially the ones who I knew from further back.

I've gotten to go wonderful places, meet interesting and intelligent people, and I started of course in the theatre and continue to work in the theatre where there is some intelligence involved in it.

You get people coming up to you and asking about movies, especially in Chennai, which is nice.

Some of the funniest things are just situations in life that are funny. The way people interact. People describing their first kiss with someone, to me, is really funny. When someone goes into detail about each moment of that, I really find that enjoyable to listen to.

We read off the many signals that our companions' clothes transmit to us in every social encounter. In this way, clothing is as much a part of human body language as gestures, facial expressions and postures.Even those people who insist that they despise attention to clothing, and dress as casually as possible, are making quite specific comments on their social roles and their attitudes towards the culture in which they live.

Anything is possible on a train: a great meal, a binge, a visit from card players, an intrigue, a good night's sleep, and strangers' monologues framed like Russian short stories.

When I'm out and about, I never get chatted up by women in an obvious way.

The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.

I can go to parties all the time and not see people I want to work with, but then sometimes I do, and the way I try to describe it is that I like to refer to art history a lot in my paintings, and there are some people who just have a face that feels like art historical. Like they could be in a Tiepolo painting as a person riding through the sky in a chariot, or she could be in a fashion magazine.

Dogs never bite me - just humans.

There are so many people I wish I could have met:

There's not a single day goes by when I'm in the UK and somebody doesn't say, 'Unbelievable, Jeff' to me. I must hear it 20 or 30 times a day. It's brilliant.

When I would knock about the town in London, I was doing it with my head down, walking very quickly and it had become the norm for me because I'm recognized there. And people are not unkind but occasionally there's a sort of British who do you think you are sort of, I don't really think I'm anybody. I just go about my normal day. But sometimes you're faced with that.

You never know who's going to become your friend. Friends are always chance meetings.

I get an awful lot of people coming up and saying they went to school with me. There must have been 80,000 pupils at that school!