I've had any number of enjoyable conversations with flight attendants. One even kissed me goodnight after tucking me in, PVG-LAX in AA F. (She was of, let's say, an age that suggested a lot of seniority; it was a pretty chaste kiss; and my wife was awake in the next seat.)

In another situation an AA FO, initials K.W., shot a video of his BOS-CDG-BOS flights some years back to show his family what he does at work. The video, which I used to show my MIS students how many aspects of a flight use some sort of information technology, showed a few recognizable FAs. One of them happened to be working my cabin BOS-LHR a couple of years later. She knew, of course, that K. had shot the video, but she had never seen it. It was on my laptop so I showed it to her. That also led to some enjoyable conversations, on that flight and when she took care of me again on another one.

If you don't want to talk to an FA, many of whom are genuinely interesting people even though most of their interactions with us are scripted, the sentence in Post 10 above will solve the problem.