Quotes About Communication

When I see people talking on the internet about me or my work it's almost always more a description of themselves and so I never really think of myself as anything more than just who I always was.

To work around and be successful in a round configuration in the theater, you have to connect with everyone.

There's nothing worse than a director that keeps changing their mind. Because, unlike the directors I work with, I'm not decisive at all.

I've had job stability for years at a time. You really develop great relationships with the people you work with.

I just want the actors to put their faith in the language. Just let the words do the work.

It's so easy to grow apart; marriage takes work.

I think for love to work you have to be with someone who you want to talk to before going to bed at night.

You can't tell people how to feel when they read your work. You can only hope to connect.

I work with the president almost on a daily basis. I was with him until 6:30 last night. I'll be with him Thursday morning. We talk every day.

I'm a believer in the benefits of translation. It's a necessity and a privilege - it would be awful to be limited to reading authors who's work was composed in the languages I happen to have learned.

Early on, my emotional work had to do with feeling unheard and invisible.

I'm not sure how a world leader reacts to the work of a clown.

Only when you're willing to take 100 percent responsibility for making the relationship work will it work. Otherwise, a relationship left to chance will always be vulnerable to disaster.

But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

For you to be successful and provide your employees with the necessary tools for success, you and your boss must work together - no matter what.

I like people that like to work the way that I like to work.

A presidential speech is always the work of many hands.

I let the actors work out their ideas before shooting, then tell them what attitudes I want. If a scene isn't honest, it stands out like a sore thumb.

Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation.

Part of an actors job, in my opinion, is adjust to the characteristics of the director and try to understand to how he tries to work.

I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal specifically with that piece of work.

Of course, when you work with actors and when you work on a script everything that you know about the human experience can't possibly go in.

I don't know how to explain it." "Try words. If that doesn't work, we'll move on to interpretive dance.

If there's something bothering me in the business end of things with people I work with, I just say it right out.