Quotes About Communication

Every time I give an interview, I seem to offend somebody in my family, usually my mother.

I don't see how can I offend Mexicans with the truth. It is what Mexicans want to hear.

I know I probably offend some people. I have been talking a little too much so I'm trying not to talk as much.

There's something about uninterrupted singing that just doesn't work for me, because at some point, I need my characters to talk. Without meaning to offend anyone, a musical like 'Les Miserables' would be the last thing I'd ever be interested in.

Sometimes a nickname is used instead of the real name. But a nickname may offend either the one named or the parents who gave the name.

You're in front of an audience and thinking off the top of your head - you're going to say things that offend people sometimes. Sometimes I'll be driving home, and I'll be like, 'Oh, crap, I shouldn't have said that.'

The amazing thing about a football team is we can disagree and fight like brothers, but then we come back together. We are able to be open and honest about things that may offend us.

We're segregating ourselves because we're afraid we're going to offend each other.

I didn't mean to offend anybody. It's my filter. I constantly work on it.

We don't want to cross too many lines or offend the parents at all.

People, I think, are more interested in being offended than getting to the heart of a situation. And to go after comedians to me is so counterproductive, because comedy is kind of a medicine.

I apologize if anybody was offended by anything I said.

See, I don't really go after girls. Most of the girlfriends I've had have come after me. So it's really funny when girls get offended because I don't hit on them.

If I met a girl, I'd tell her straight up, 'I might run into someone else I want to go out with; don't be offended.' Was that acceptable to them? It had to be. There were enough girls. They were expendable.

I understand why people could look at things that Donald Trump says and be deeply offended by them and feel that he is not looking out for their best interests.

You don't get to tell people why they can't be offended. That's not how that works.

Seriously, we all need to get over being offended every time someone says something you don't agree with. Guess what? That's life. And I'd rather have that life any day than only hear from people who agree with me.

Growing up in the South, we say 'Yes Ma'am' and 'No Ma'am.' Here in Hollywood, people get offended.

You just can't go wrong when you're honest. If somebody's offended by that, it's really quite too bad.

It's completely beyond comprehension that you just can't say anything without offending somebody or the other.

Good grief, we're getting offended by everything these days! People can't say anything without offending somebody.

I don't see myself as offending people.

The family meal is really the nursery of democracy. It's where we learn to share; it's where we learn to argue without offending. It's just too critical to let go, as we've been so blithely doing.

In politics, you must learn to say 'no' without offending people. That is an art that one must master: to satisfy a person even when you have to say 'no' to him.