Quotes About Communication

I became fascinated by the fact that people write to give away rather than write to be read. It's the difference between playwrights and novelists.

Our function as playwrights to some extent is to make audiences see with their ears, because films make us see with our eyes much better.

Like most playwrights, I hate talkbacks with a passion that can burn a hole through hell.

Prada is extremely directed in terms of communicating what they like and what they don't like. That is actually extremely pleasant because it clarifies very easily what you can do and what you need to do.

What happens is I speak to people outside of my circle of friends and they have already formed an opinion of me based on the things that people have written. That is the effect of journalism on my life, and sometimes it isn't very pleasant.

My father usually does not talk to me about my films, and it was a pleasant moment when he appreciated me the first time.

There's only one thing, in the end, and that's singing truth in a pleasant way.

You always want to please your choreographer, director. Dancers are just that way.

Guys are so easygoing and girls are a little harder to please, but that's okay.

I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.

Grownups have to say 'please,' too.

Listen to what others tell you about your voice. If you're only singing to please yourself, you might as well just sing under the shower. But if you're singing for others, you are reliant on them to ask you to sing.

I can't shout, I can't cry convincingly, and please don't make me dance.

Believe me, I've had interviews where the person says, 'So when did you start and why? What about your parents?' I say to them, 'Please, have you heard of the word 'Google?'

When you're a performer, you have to please a large audience. And when you're in politics, you have to please a large audience, too.

I can't hear anything, John. Please, would you put on your headphones?

I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist.

Please do not ask me to talk about my divorce. Mr. Ziegfeld and I are such very good friends. It is only a little matter quite between ourselves.

You write to please yourself, you write to move yourself, to engage yourself in the asking of questions that are important to you.

Now, all writing - all the arts - are a form of 'Pay attention to me,' but there's also the flip side. Like, I want to give something. Let me entertain you, let me amuse you, let me try to please you with this thing I've made. And then pay attention to me.

As writers, we only aim to please. Or we aimed to please as children, which is why we became writers.

Men always like to please women. Women like to please men, too - some women. Some are very good at it.

I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.

I read everything aloud, novels as well as picture books. I believe the eye and ear are different listeners. So as writers, we have to please both.