Quotes About Communication

I keep working with fairly inexperienced directors. You know, if you have a good crew, a good cameraman, you know, I know what I'm doing. If the actors know what they're doing, we can all pull together, and it works.

You can't go up to girls and start talking about minor 7ths and expect to pull. It's not going to work.

One game that drives me crazy, is when a guy gives the girl they really like more attention, and then they feel like maybe they pressed too hard, so they back way off and start giving other women attention. I've never pulled this myself.

I want the little lassies who are thinking of going to a nightclub in Cardiff to stop to see what that guy's screaming for, or Grandma to put her knitting down to see why that guy's chatting about Alexander the Great. I'm after pulling in, whether it's in Manila, Beijing or whatever, the biggest possible audience.

I'm great at working with people and collaborating. And if my biggest gift of all is that I'm really good at pulling things from people and helping them become better at what they're doing, I'm here, as I believe all of us are, to be of service.

Then they started pulling me in and I was very resistant. All the other actors would be saying write more, more dialogue for me, and I'd always be saying 'No, less, less'.

When you come in the club, people are trying to get your attention, so they pull your hand. It's like, why are you pulling on me?

When it's foggy in the pulpit it's cloudy in the pew.

Bully pulpit of the presidency is really tough to fight.

Now that we've got computers, you can pump up anything that anybody ever uttered.

No shade, and shout out to Lil Pump, but on a track like 'Gucci Gang,' he's not really saying much.

I've had girls that kissed me on the cheek. People get so pumped, and so excited, they don't see you as a person. Which is fair. Sometimes, I don't see people as people. But at the end of the day, you can't put your hands on me unless I hug you first.

Always say 'no pun intended' to draw attention to the intended pun.

A Portuguese is not going to punch you for no reason.

If someone's personality is 'punch an Asian grandma,' it's not a dialogue. I have an Asian grandma. You want to punch her? There ain't no common ground, mama.

I don't write punch lines.

You want to say as little as you can and get the most punch out of it, always with the knowledge that people are not in the theater to listen to your music so much as to respond to the movie. You're a part of that experience.

In this age of social media, it is easy to punch out a phrase 'thoughts are with the family' when something bad occurs, and at times, it is insincere.

I used comedy to deflect a lot of situations; if you make someone laugh, they don't want to punch you in the face.

If two guys want to go see each other, let them be in the middle, let them throw some punches, then break it up.

It was hard to write about my dad for the first book because I know how sensitive he is. I knew he wasn't going to take it as well as my mom, who can kind of roll with the punches and is used to having me tell her everything she has done wrong as a parent.

True net-heads sometimes resort to punctuation cartoons to get around the absence of inflection.

And if you want to know why great editors scare the pants off of writers everywhere, read 'Eats, Shoots and Leaves' by Lynne Truss. The punctuation police are everywhere!

I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators 'the haute couture of language.'