Quotes About Communication

Balancing my career between two industries has never been an issue. I started with a Telugu film and have a soft corner for the south industry, though I've grown up speaking Hindi. I don't think language can be a barrier when it comes to acting. And, since I come from a theatre background, I'm used to memorizing my lines.

Speaking in broken Telugu is one thing, and dubbing is another.

I'm quite fluent in Telugu now, but there's a difference between talking and dubbing. While dubbing, the diction must be in sync with the emotion in the scene and would impact my performance.

It took me a while to grasp Kannada and Telugu.

Telugu is a lot like Kannada, so I don't have a problem with Telugu. But Tamil is very difficult to learn, man.

I speak Tamil and Telugu better than Bengali.

Language has never been a barrier for me. I grew up learning Telugu, Hindi, and Tamil.

I struggled a bit with Malayalam, but it was easier speaking Tamil; it is closer to Telugu.

I may not write poetry in Telugu but I need to get the nuances right.

Besides Kannada, I also know Telugu and Tamil fairly well.

I speak Telugu, so learning Kannada was not all that tough.

I have dubbed in all the three languages - Hindi, Tamil and Telugu.

It took me just a couple of months to pick up Telugu.

I have a big mouth, and I have a temper, so that's not good for people. That's not good for executives.

We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.

I'm not the easiest person in the world to be partners with. I'm never home. I'm constantly running around the world. I can be impatient. I have a temper. I'm, like, self-obsessed. I'm irritable, self-absorbed.

I have a temper, but I wouldn't call me abusive.

If I have a really bad cook or a bad manager or bad sous-chef, I previously would have fired them or lost my temper. But now I realize that if I'm so right, then I should be able to communicate it so clearly that they get it.

I think the best directors rarely lose their temper.

I have a temperament that doesn't adapt well to politics. It's because I speak my mind so much.

With the Internet, we can communicate instantly across the globe, but the net also makes it possible for us to shrink ever further into our own skins - a state of being that neither suits the human temperament nor provides ground for further growth.

Well, a daughter is someone you've grown up with, right? So you know her temperament, you know what makes her angry and how to deal with that person. You're meeting your daughter-in-law when she is an adult already and you don't quite know what her temperament is like, so it takes time to gel.

I'd say I'm moody, I'd say I'm temperamental. But within my certain group of friends and family, I'm very open and outgoing and joke around a lot.

Men say, 'I've loved you since I was 7 years old,' and I say, 'Well, you never contacted me.' And very often women say, 'Do youuuuuu know what I have?' and I want to say, 'Yessssssss, I do.' Because inevitably the answer is, 'An original Shirley Temple doll.'