Quotes About Communication

I'm so lucky to have worked with Burt Lancaster, who I remember was one of the first people I'd heard swearing in a really interesting way.

I think New Yorkers are some of the friendliest people in the world, but it just comes out in a different way. In a way where they're swearing at you.

On paper, swearing takes on a different attitude. It can make you sound very angry when you use it a lot.

If I'm cussing at you, swearing at you, calling you demeaning names, are you really thinking about that last play? Am I really helping you get better? Or am I just making myself feel good by demeaning you? I've really never understood it.

The thing that got me to change was when my kids would come and tell me I was swearing on TV, so I knew I wanted to make a change.

I find a lot of swearing in films. And I guess that shows my age. But I also feel that where they say those words, they could just as easily have written other words.

It doesn't excite me as a writer to write some swearing or sex scenes, because they don't have any emotional content.

If the speaker won't boil it down, the audience must sweat it out.

In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.

I think blokes definitely sweat on most things when it comes to being questioned by women.

My English was limited to vacationing and not really engaging with Americans. I knew 'shopping' and 'eating' English - I could say 'blue sweater,' 'creme brulee,' and 'Caesar salad,' - so I came here thinking I spoke English.

My high school girlfriend would ask if I finally learned how to unbutton the back of a sweater!

I'm quite shy, so if there's a guy I like, I actually ignore him because I can't speak to him. I get all red and sweaty, and it's embarrassing.

We don't do 'dating' in Sweden.

My Finnish, it never really happened, but I'm good in Swedish.

I might be more fluent in Swedish than I am in Spanish. My wife speaks it to our kids, and they're fluent so I hear it all the time, so I've got that under my belt.

I speak five languages: English, Swedish, French, Italian, and German.

The Norse way of speaking, no one really knew what the Vikings sounded liked, they were Norsemen. The accent is really a combination of a Scandinavian accent, maybe with a Swedish accent and an old way of speaking.

I speak English with my dad and Swedish with my mom; it's quite schizophrenic.

If you were to ask me to speak Swedish or Dutch or German, I have no idea if I could pull that off!

I speak Swedish mainly with my kids' friends.

I can't learn Swedish to save my life. I tried, but I'm not very good at it.

But if I can be convinced and then through the work that we do together, the orchestra can really be convinced of the big sweep of that communication that the piece suggests, then the audience will get it and it will be a good experience for all of us.

When I see something that's sensitive, I go, 'You've got to put that out there.' You need to keep the dialogue going and shine a light on the bad guys. If you sweep it under the carpet, people forget about it. People stop talking about it.