Quotes About Misunderstanding

Directing is genderless. The only thing... I love men. I'm not being mean to them, but they can't hear you. I don't have a husband, and so I'm not really attuned to it, but I didn't know that they could not really hear you. Like, I'm talking, and they just walk away.

That was the problem with the 'celibate' word because they don't consider for a moment that you'd rather not be, but you just are. I was never a sexual person.

Mike Judge is my Jonathan Swift, and I say that because I don't know any other satirists. But the problem with satire is that it's so easily misinterpreted.

The problem with being a writer is that some readers tend to think that anything that comes out of a character's mouth is you talking.

Very few people do bad things because they're bad. They generally do bad things because they think they're the right thing to do, but they're misplaced.

I remember my parents taking me to see 'The Exorcist' in theaters when I was really young. They're Cuban and didn't really speak English, so I don't think they got that it was a movie about a girl possessed by the devil.

Let them eat cake.

How bad is it?" "I have a headache," he said irritably. "It's probably just a minor skull fracture with brain damage." She struggled not to smile. "Did you have that x-rayed?" she asked, indicating his hand with her eyes. "Sprain. It's bruised and sore, that's all. You'll probably be very disappointed to know I'm going to completely recover." "Hm.

Ew." "Exactly. You tell her I was less than perfect and I'm a eunuch." She couldn't help it, she laughed. "Gee, and Peyton seems so sweet.

I missed you," she said. "I thought you wouldn't make the effort. Just for me." "Just for you? For God's sake, I'm in love with you!" "That's what I hoped. But then you grew so distant. I didn't know if you were in some kind of pout, or you were letting go of me." "I'll be honest—I didn't want you to leave. It took you no time to spoil me, Muriel.

Well, you don't follow instructions very well, do you?" she asked. "I don't know what came over me," he lied.

Oh, really. This saving-up business—I guess you think you're the only one who missed it. Huh?" "Well… You got a little pissy there for a while…." "Well, John, you told everyone it was ovulation day! You're going to have to learn to be a little more discreet in the future." "Anything

Are you trying not to give me information? Or is cryptic your only way of communicating?

Sorry,' I apologized, realizing she was the sort of girl who got upset when someone used an unfamiliar word, rather than learning what it meant.

I don't know which is worse," Cassidy mused, "when people laugh at things that aren't funny, or when they don't laugh at things that are.

People are afraid of us. We're their monsters. Except they're the ones who are afraid of what they don't understand. They're the ones who ruin everything.

Ezra, you're being ridiculous. I'm over it. That's what girls do; they get angry, and then they get over it. Haven't you ever been friends with a girl before?

Marina rolled her eyes. "Besides, I saw the way you were staring at each other during lunch. You tow are so completely Pride and Prejudice." "You mean he'll scorn me for my family while convincing my sister's soul mate that eh doesn't really love her?" I asked hopefully.

Words could betray you if you chose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many. Jokes could be grandly miscalculated, or stories deemed boring, and I'd learned early on that my sense of humor and ideas about what sorts of things were fascinating didn't exactly overlap with my friends.

The Greek word barbaros at first just meant a foreigner who spoke a different language.

My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee. Unfortunately, she was just coming home.

When I was born the doctor took one look at my face, turned me over and said, "Look, twins!"

I worked in a pet store and people would ask how big I would get.

I asked my wife, "Last night, were you faking it?" She said, "No, I was really sleeping.