Quotes About Communication

I'm terrible at keeping secrets.

I don't even date; I'm terrible with women.

I'm terrible with tech. But I'm good with jargon. I can sound like I know what I'm doing.

I'm a terrible singer, but it helps when I have to call a taxi.

Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes.

I'm a terrible patient, and I find that doctors can be very condescending.

For Astrid, no matter what challenges they go through, they are going to face each other. It's hard for a daughter to accept that her mother is that selfish and that terrible.

I apologize for my terrible interview skills.

Parents, you know, can be terrible.

I'm a terrible interviewer. I'm not a journalist - although I have a Peabody Award - and I'm not really a late-night host. What I am is honest.

It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong.

Social media can really just be a terrible thing sometimes, and people don't really understand that.

You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about.

Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.

I feel terribly misunderstood; I feel terribly misunderstood.

I never know how to get off the phone, so I'm terribly admiring of people who can.

I am very shy. When I go to a charity ball, I don't mind if people look at my sleeves. I mind terribly if I have to say something.

I was terribly shy and never said anything in class. Then I started getting into school plays. When you've got words to say, you've got a sort of armour.

I'm not terribly technological. I'm awfully backward about iPads and BlackBerries and suchlike; I still have a great fondness for Teletext, and I clung onto my fax machine for as long as I could, but eventually you have to move with the times.

Being listened to and being heard is an experience that doesn't happen terribly often. To listen compassionately or nonjudgmentally to another person - not to get too heavy about it - but I once heard somebody say that was a form of real prayer.

It's terribly important that you can criticise people's ideas without criticising them, and if they burst into tears, it means that you tend to hold back from getting at the absolute truth.

I remember my daughter coming back from school one day and saying that the teacher had asked anybody whose parents were divorced to put their hands up. I felt angry but also guilty. And you feel sort of terribly responsible in that sort of situation.

People confuse being full of words with being terribly intelligent and informed.

People are always asking me on to quizzes - they think I know all the answers because I burble on so, but I don't do terribly well.