Modeling is more important than the talking we do.
~By Wayne Williams ~
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'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 ~
I'm tired of the industry, tired of playing the whole game - the dressing up, the red carpet. I hate talking about myself.
~By Drea De Matteo ~
I don't think it's too late for 'The War of the Worlds' to come true. I'm talking about it from the standpoint that which you need to have and own things - to breed, to think, to create - is going on everywhere, not just on this planet or in the space around it.
~By Dwight Schultz ~
Well I am grooming him, he has a boxing trainer that knows what he is talking about, and once he has that he is able to put everything together and he listens, and when somebody listens they are able to accomplish anything.
~By Michael Moorer ~
I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.
~By Ignacy Jan Paderewski ~
There is an element of luck, there is an element of trial and error, sometimes you fail, sometimes you succeed. It's not as beautifully simple as it may seem when we are talking about it.
~By Lakhdar Brahimi ~
If you are talking about terrorism, you need to sit down and understand what is making these people put dynamite around their waists and blow themselves up.
~By Lakhdar Brahimi ~
Think twice before you speak - and you'll find everyone talking about something else.
~By Frances Rodman ~
I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.
~By Vera Brittain ~
I think that sometimes kids use the show as a jumping off point for talking about things with their parents.
~By Luke Perry ~
We all laughed. It was more like that whole thing that I was talking about earlier. You go to training camp and after the season is over, you might not see the guys for six months until you go back to training camp.
~By Bubba Smith ~
I don't mind talking about my two daughters, but I don't feel comfortable denying them their privacy.
~By Tom Bergeron ~
How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?
~By Plato ~
I don't know if I believe in love at first sight, but of course I believe in two people having chemistry right away. A girl should be really easy to talk to. When I lose track of time because we've been talking, I think that's really fun.
~By Zac Efron ~
In the space of three weeks, I met a fair bunch of the guys who were just starting those little programmers' co-ops, and everybody was talking about starting businesses.
~By Esther Dyson ~
I think that when we're talking about youth violence, we're talking about kids who don't have opportunities, so they're engaged in a certain degree of lawlessness, because we as a society have failed them.
~By Matt Gonzalez ~
The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams.
~By Robert A. M. Stern ~
I was always talking in weird voices from the time I was two. I guess I just found a way to keep doing it! I did get a degree in theater and took some voice-over classes... but most of it is just the same stuff I was doing as a kid!
~By Grey DeLisle ~
I never took my SAT's. I never applied to college. I moved right out here and jumped into the thick of things. Whether that was the smart move or not, I'm sitting here talking to you now, so it paid off.
~By Scott Foley ~
For me, it was kind of like going into the military or something. And anybody - any male - who has ever worked in a French kitchen knows what I am talking about when I say that.
~By Alton Brown ~
I'm still excited at being at a microphone and talking to listeners. I love that. It's the most basic element of what I do and I still enjoy it very much.
~By Bob Edwards ~
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 ~
Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.
~By Sigmund Freud ~
Look, I am not worried about Washington cutting too much spending too fast. I mean, the kinds of spending cuts we're talking about just right now are $100 billion out of a $3.7 trillion budget.
~By Paul Ryan ~
Eighty percent of what everyone's talking about never happens. I don't mean in terms of product development that's happening right now, I'm talking about the far-flung visions of the future.
~By Jay Chiat ~
I don't mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around... and I'm not talking just about the government!
~By Trevor Rabin ~
Attending that Convention and talking with those people and many others convinced me that I should become a blogger in my efforts to reform the government and uphold the integrity of the Constitution and the laws made in furtherance thereof.
~By John Jay Hooker ~
Talking Heads, for me and Chris, was a very personal thing that we shared with a lot of people. In a way, I'm glad it's over, because it allows us to move beyond the restrictions that followed.
~By Tina Weymouth ~
I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a Mozart of rock music.
~By Sean Lennon ~
I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.
~By Louise Erdrich ~
Singing is the love of my life, but I was ready to give it all up because I couldn't handle people talking about how fat I was.
~By Stevie Nicks ~
It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
~By W. H. Auden ~
Like, in high school, I was a good student and got straight As. It was very strict and you couldn't do well there unless you studied very hard, but every time there was any trouble, I was the first person they would be talking to.
~By Elizabeth Wurtzel ~
Whenever a critic mentions the salary of an actor, I'm thinking, He's not talking about the movie.
~By Harold Ramis ~
No, I was talking to the network and Universal about plans for a third season where Buck would go back to Earth and would focus on stories around the planet and show what it was like 500 years later.
~By Gil Gerard ~
The doctors must tell you that one of the risks of surgery is that you might die. This poor doctor was talking to an actress. It was very dramatic to me. To him, it was just a thing he had to say.
~By Patty Duke ~
The film world is a crazy place to be. You sit around all day waiting for the phone to ring. Are people talking about you or aren't they?
~By Kyle MacLachlan ~
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 ~
When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.
~By Alex Haley ~
Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.
~By Walter Lippmann ~
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
Sitting down to eat in our house is about sharing, you know, talking about the day you've had, be it in school or work or whatever, so that's very important to us.
~By Liam Neeson ~
An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening.
~By Marlon Brando ~
I can't sit around having coffee. I have all these appointments, and a lot of my friends sit around having coffee talking about the jobs they didn't get.
~By Eva Marie Saint ~
If any movie people are watching this show, please, for me, have some respect. You wanna sell some tickets, act like you know what you're talking about.
~By Jeff Goldblum ~
Quentin and I were constantly finding something new that we had in common and comic books were one of them. I think we were talking about comic books much earlier in our relationship, before I had the part.
~By David Carradine ~
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 ~
I don't think we're going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals only; we've got to translate that into what's in it for us.
~By Jim Fowler ~
Because - Bobby Lewis said this once to us in class, the better you get, the less credit you'll get. Because the better you are, the more it looks like walking and talking and everybody thinks they can walk and talk.
~By James Lipton ~
Scientists announced that they have located the gene for alcoholism. Scientists say they found it at a party, talking way too loudly.
~By Conan O'Brien ~
An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening.
~By Boy George ~
Not compromising the music, but there is a way, by just showing the people that you're sincere and honest with what you're doing, and by talking to them.
~By Chuck Mangione ~
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 ~
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
~By Joseph Addison ~
No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.
~By Bill Cosby ~
I talk as I sketch, too, in order to keep their minds off what I'm doing so I'll get the most natural expression I can from them. Also, the talking helps to size up the subject's personality, so I can figure out better how to portray him.
~By Norman Rockwell ~
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 ~
People love talking about when they were young and heard Honky Tonk Women for the first time. It's quite a heavy load to carry on your shoulders, the memories of so many people.
~By Mick Jagger ~
Musicians always come off sounding a little bit pretentious, and a little bit... I don't know, hypocritical, from what they do, talking about strong issues.
~By James Iha ~
I remember that. I was talking to him and I said how great it would be if actors had a tail because I have animals and a tail is so expressive. On a cat you can tell everything. You can tell if they're annoyed. You can tell whether they're scared.
~By Christopher Walken ~
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 ~
Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
~By C. S. Lewis ~
Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.
~By Lionel Hampton ~
Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date.
~By Caroline Rhea ~
Talking about auditions, you never know what anyone else is thinking.
~By Linda Lavin ~
There is a difficult leap between talking about balancing the budget and actually doing it.
~By Kevin Brady ~
We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.
~By Jules Renard ~
Maybe philosophy - I love talking about ideas. Or maybe art history. I was thinking about psychology, then I got really afraid because everybody says it's terribly boring.
~By Claire Danes ~
I guess when Rick is finished with his Journey to the Centre of the Earth, then we might have a go at something. We'd like to, we're open to it, and we've been talking about it.
~By Keith Emerson ~
Me and my father went through a war period where we wasn't talking. He wanted me to go to theology school - I didn't want to go. I wanted to do music. I told him I was a minister through music.
~By Wyclef Jean ~
I'm always active in trying to educate people when it comes to eating animal products, testing on animals, and the health benefits of being vegan, although I'm probably not the best person to be talking about the latter at the moment.
~By Daniel Johns ~
I do finish reading a script and say, Why are they making it and what are they talking about? I like to try and be responsible in my choices in that way.
~By Jennifer Connelly ~
I love women, but I feel like you can't trust some of them. Some of them are liars, you know? Like I was in the park and I met this girl, she was cute and she had a dog. And I went up to her, we started talking. She told me her dog's name. Then I said, 'Does he bite?' She said, 'No.' And I said, 'Oh yeah? Then how does he eat?' Liar.
~By Demetri Martin ~
But if you're talking about fine art work, then I think you have to ask yourself some pretty deep questions about why it is you want to take pictures and what it is you want to say.
~By Leonard Nimoy ~
We ask for way too much stuff - way too much stuff. You got a job making $100 a year and bought a house for $3 million. Talking about, 'I don't know what happened with the payment.'
~By Sinbad ~
It is during difficult times like this that the true American spirit reveals itself. I am not talking only of the response of local, state, and federal governments, although they will each play an extremely important role in this effort.
~By Jo Bonner ~
One important reason to stay calm is that calm parents hear more. Low-key, accepting parents are the ones whose children keep talking.
~By Mary Pipher ~
I love going to the feed store and drinking coffee and talking about how much rain we need.
~By Thomas Haden Church ~
Many times I've gone on tours with Paul Anka. He would have someone sitting behind him to keep people from even talking to him. You were almost in a little restricted area there.
~By Ben E. King ~
Lonely people, in talking to each other, can make each other lonelier.
~By Lillian Hellman ~
Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.
~By Robert Benchley ~
I got to talking to an old actor, and he had a bunch of stories about the Rough Riders.
~By Tom Berenger ~
I was dealing with craft, and that's the surprising thing, the number of people who have literally broken down on our stage, because when you're talking about the thing that is most important to someone, they're liable to feel something strong.
~By James Lipton ~
I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.
~By Pete Sampras ~
The President, in talking about freedom and democracy, is sparking a wave of very positive democratic sentiment that might help us override both Islamic fundamentalism that has formed in that region, and also some of the hatred for our policies of invading Iraq.
~By Bill Richardson ~
Ultimately, I'm a mess. I don't mean I'm a mess, like, emotionally - I mean, I think probably everybody's a mess. David's a mess. But. I'm talking about... I'm messy.
~By Michael C. Hall ~
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 ~
Talking money is crass; so I'm not going to tell you what I made last year.
~By Mel Torme ~
You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about.
~By William Stafford ~
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 ~
Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
~By Joseph Addison ~
We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it? Are you going to wallow in that or are you going to create your own agenda?
~By Judith Jamison ~
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 ~
When I'm talking to a large audience, I imagine that I'm talking to a single person.
~By Red Barber ~
One of the most surreal moments in this election was after the third debate, when I heard a talking head say, Al Gore won on substance, on the issues. But you have to give the victory to Bush because he seems presidential.
~By Bradley Whitford ~
The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.
~By Robert Smith Surtees ~
We're talking to New Line. They've got a couple projects they're interested in me doing and I'm having meetings at MGM. There's a lot of available projects.
~By David R. Ellis ~
Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You'd be amazed how many companies don't listen to their customers.
~By Ross Perot ~
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