There's nothing more boring than actors talking about acting.
~By James Caan ~
I've never really been star struck. I was a little bit taken aback when I was doing a chat show recently and I was sat in the make-up chair chatting to a guy say next to me but I couldn't look round and see who it was, it was only when I got up I realised it had been Bryan Adams I'd been talking to!
~By Richard Fleeshman ~
There is progress taking place, growth is better. We're only talking about two years there.
~By John Prescott ~
The last thing in the world I should have done was go into the theater because was inordinately shy as a young man. I couldn't open my mouth. At a party, I was the one stuck up against the wall. I was embarrassed about talking. I felt that I couldn't talk well.
~By Gale Gordon ~
We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.
~By Leon Kass ~
As much as we love playing the small clubs, we'd really like to get ourselves in front of a larger audience. I'm not talking about arenas or anything, but nice theaters and larger clubs.
~By Chris Frantz ~
The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.
~By George Schultz ~
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.
~By George W. Bush ~
To stay at my best, I have to stop talking during the preceding day.
~By Placido Domingo ~
Occasionally I'll watch Fox News for as long as I can tolerate it, or CNN. I'll watch until I get infuriated, but you got to know what they're talking about and what they're not talking about.
~By David Cross ~
I'm very private in person. I'm very sensitive and shy with men individually. But when I'm talking, maybe there's this other channel or this other side and other way of working in my mind, and I convert and become carefree.
~By Bai Ling ~
But one led to two, two led to four, four led to eight, until at the end it was about 85 a day - the doctors could not believe I was taking that much. And that was just the valium - I'm not talking about the other pills I went through.
~By Corey Haim ~
I'm blessed with eight children - though I'm talking about eight adults now.
~By Ned Beatty ~
You're doing it to make the character as specific as possible, so that it's a specific individual that you're talking about, not that whole class of people.
~By Joel Coen ~
Lonely people, in talking to each other, can make each other lonelier.
~By Lillian Hellman ~
I can tell if someone is talking to me because I'm on "Friends" or cause they just think I'm neat. You know I don't think I've ever spent more than five or ten minutes with somebody who was ogling me because they recognized me from the show.
~By Matthew Perry ~
Do I think it's OK to fight authority as long as you're only talking about the high school teacher? No.
~By John Mellencamp ~
Cricket makes no sense to me. I find it beautiful to watch and I like that they break for tea. That is very cool, but I don't understand. My friends from The Clash tried to explain it years and years ago, but I didn't understand what they were talking about.
~By Jim Jarmusch ~
When we talk about fighting for our country, we're talking about our vote, our vote is our arms.
~By Sarah Palin ~
I've seen it too many times in Hollywood. Talking about a relationship in public can jinx it. And if you have your picture taken together, you might as well start packing your bags.
~By Gina Gershon ~
It took a bit of talking through administrative people, but only once did an attorney try and get in the way of the process and say their artist couldn't do it.
~By Jules Shear ~
In terms of the creative side of it, it's really been a thing where you come up with the funny stuff is usually at a bar or out talking to people or whatever.
~By Trey Parker ~
I think is very beneficial to relax yourself so that when you are doing it you are not staggering for lines and your concentration is not on what I am going to say - but the scene itself, the character that you are talking to.
~By Dabney Coleman ~
When people screamed novelty the first time around talking about an ugly video and stuff I was really insulted because, hold on a minute, everyone you see in the video are real life.
~By Bubba Sparxxx ~
We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
~By Dan Marino ~
What language are you talking in now? It appears to be bollocks.
~By Richard Wilson ~
When we were talking about this, an idea for this master vigilante, it was an urban guerilla. One of my ideas was that he would be a member of the police force who turned on the government.
~By David Lloyd ~
The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
~By Fran Lebowitz ~
I had seen movies before that that had made me laugh, but I had never seen anything even remotely close to as funny as Richard Pryor was, just standing there talking.
~By Joe Rogan ~
We were talking about the kissing in the movie just recently. Clearly, it's pretty challenging material, but Ang said two men herding sheep was far more sexual than two men having sex on screen.
~By Jake Gyllenhaal ~
There's nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way.
~By Alex Van Halen ~
People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.
~By Henry A. Kissinger ~
I've lost track of the number of people who want to be writers but never actually write anything. Talking about writing, dreaming about writing, can be very fun, but it won't get a book written. You've got to write.
~By Laurell K. Hamilton ~
The cartoons which I enjoy have caused some kind of out rage, but they have got people talking about these issues out in the open and in essence that's what its all about.
~By Jonathan Shapiro ~
Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.
~By Frank Dane ~
They wanted me to do Scream 2, and I hate talking about movies I turned down, because it sounds judgmental. There's nothing wrong with horror movies. I enjoy watching them. The main reason I turn a part down is if I think I won't be good.
~By Casey Affleck ~
She had said one time, make a choice and do it like Hercules. So if that is all of what is being offered, the idea is to always do it like Hercules and I always followed her advise and now I'm here talking to you.
~By Harvey Keitel ~
Don't have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.
~By Steve Martin ~
When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.
~By Alfred Kazin ~
There's a lot of things that go on when you're on tour that cannot be controlled. I'm not even talking about myself, but of course there's sexual activity and drugs, fighting and language; it is certainly not a place to raise a family.
~By Peter Steele ~
I've had an advantage; I've had a sort of open public acceptance in New York that doesn't happen to just anyone trying to make the transition you were talking about.
~By Steve Forbert ~
If you're doing a large, complicated character with radio controls, it might take a number of people several months to make it and if you're talking about a quick little hand puppet, it could be made in 2 days, so there's enormous range there, and no real easy generalities.
~By Jim Henson ~
It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
~By Zora Neale Hurston ~
We are talking about predictable recurring flooding.
~By Robert A. Brady ~
A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
~By Miguel de Unamuno ~
You're talking to someone who really understands rock music.
~By Tipper Gore ~
A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.
~By Carl Sandberg ~
I've been a schoolteacher. I always try to get the kids to finish talking before the next one starts.
~By Marion Zimmer Bradley ~
I think you kind of hope for people to gush over movies, but I think the opposite way is great sometimes, too. I'd rather have a movie that you're angry about and that you're talking about the next day, than something you forget about when the popcorn goes into the trash.
~By Gabriel Mann ~
I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.
~By Joseph L. Mankiewicz ~
When I was in pre-production for Trees Lounge, I was hearing the cinematographer talking with the production designer about colours and this and that, and feeling like I was losing control.
~By Steve Buscemi ~
I genuinely enjoy talking one-to-one. I have no shyness about that.
~By Stephanie Beacham ~
When I speak of natural drummers I'm talking about guys that are playing with the talent God gave 'em.
~By Gene Krupa ~
I did a lot of fast talking as a youth; I was pretty good at it. I was never talked into it - I was always the one doing the talking.
~By Portia de Rossi ~
I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.
~By Larry Bird ~
I think there is a good deal of promise in those discussions as well. I think there is a range of matters that might be discussed between NATO and Russia that can provide a mechanism for talking through these issues, a way to give reassurance on these issues.
~By Warren Christopher ~
There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.
~By Jean Baudrillard ~
A political party is dying before our eyes-and I don't mean the Democrats. I'm talking about the mainstream media, which is being destroyed by the opposition.
~By Howard Fineman ~
The immigration thing has to be brought to a head, and I feel that the best way to do that is endorse the worst, in the sense of he is a racist and he knows what I'm talking about.
~By Tom Metzger ~
You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist.
~By Studs Terkel ~
You know I think that going into therapy is a very positive thing, and talking about it is really helpful, because the more you talk the more your fears fade, because you get it out.
~By Fran Drescher ~
I just don't want to live like I used to. And at some point, I'm going to put a gag order on myself in terms of talking about the past. I've got to slam the door and deal with the present and the future.
~By Charlie Sheen ~
They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
~By Lillian Hellman ~
I was just talking about women, just in terms of understanding them as much as we can ever understand the opposite sex. I'm trying to let go of certain male approaches to things that you inherit, that you grow up with.
~By Fred Ward ~
The message that I gave on the - on the steps today was that you need to stand for those things that are right and empower the individual. Believe in the power of one person. Don't believe that you can't do it. Everybody wants - everybody wants a shot. That we can all agree on. Beyond that, it becomes politics. I'm not talking politics.
~By Glenn Beck ~
But I try not to become preoccupied with that because with whatever direction I follow, with whatever advice I've followed or not followed, It's landed me in New York, in a very beautiful hotel, talking to people about something that I love. So I ain't that far off.
~By Eriq La Salle ~
Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard.
~By William Jennings Bryant ~
We are just interested in dealing with the people we're paying every day. We know federal law allows them to vote in a union at anytime, but we think we can resist that by talking to our own people and giving them enough upside.
~By David Neeleman ~
We are in the business of gathering the news. We're not in the business of talking about the news.
~By Aaron Brown ~
I don't see this planet being... they're talking about how they're turning around the environmental problems here, but I think it's already too late.
~By Ace Frehley ~
The comics that are just conversing with you up there and drawing on their own life, yeah, I guess so. I guess some do political humor, some do topical humor, but the ones that I like, the ones that are appealing to me, were guys who were just talking to you about their life.
~By Ray Romano ~
Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.
~By Pauline Kael ~
I can let the team do the talking for me.
~By Bob Paisley ~
Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
~By Plato ~
They are uncomfortable talking about sex because they don't want people to think they know about it.
~By Sue Johanson ~
When we're talking about technology that involves weapons of mass destruction, nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, there has to be an element of preemption.
~By John Sununu ~
Some day, somebody is going to have to start talking about what happens to us all a decade from now if we let these North Koreans and the Iranians go forward with their nuclear weapons program.
~By Lawrence Eagleburger ~
Talking money is crass; so I'm not going to tell you what I made last year.
~By Mel Torme ~
There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.
~By John von Neumann ~
Then you get into it, especially if you start talking about football, fighting and Muhammad Ali. Then the ladies get very bored and start delivering ultimatums.
~By Oliver Reed ~
He's not rewarding us by talking to us. He's talking to us because He has something to say to us directly, as opposed to the things He says to all humanity.
~By Gene Wolfe ~
I loved it, it's such fun. I like that people are seeing it and then talking about it. Like when I took my son and his friends to see Napoleon Dynamite last year, we spent the next six weeks trying to explain it.
~By Robert Downey, Jr. ~
Never get a mime talking. He won't stop.
~By Marcel Marceau ~
The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event.
~By Gloria Swanson ~
There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don't care.
~By Adam Brody ~
But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses.
~By Steven Soderbergh ~
In China, when you get to the airport everyone be talking in American slang.
~By Ike Turner ~
I got to talking to an old actor, and he had a bunch of stories about the Rough Riders.
~By Tom Berenger ~
It always weirds me out and makes me unhappy that some people think I'm Justin. I'm not. People can be talking to me and I know they think they are talking to Justin. It's hard to explain.
~By Randy Harrison ~
Talking about the all night concerts, I did some of the first all night concerts back in the 60's with this little harmonium, and I also had saxophone taped delays.
~By Terry Riley ~
This guy kept telling us that rock was the big thing, everyone's talking about the big thing, our band was the big thing. So he made us change our name to The Big Thing. Can you believe that?!
~By Terry Kath ~
I hate the whole reluctant sex-symbol thing. It's such bull. You see these dudes greased up, in their underwear, talking about how they don't want to be a sex symbol.
~By Ben Affleck ~
Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.
~By William Makepeace Thackeray ~
The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.
~By Anna Quindlen ~
The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.
~By Nat King Cole ~
Let me explain something when I'm talking about sin, and I'm talking about all sin. One of the biggest ones that has been talked about that has really become a debate in America is homosexuality.
~By Reggie White ~
I'm not going to let people get away with either a dishonest or inaccurate premise to what we're talking about because I think that does the viewer a disturbance.
~By Dan Abrams ~
There's nothing worse than talking about yourself to find out that you're not that interesting.
~By Sean Kinney ~
Everybody is talking today about the economy.
~By Joschka Fischer ~
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