Quotes About Dialogue

Show me the man who isn't interested in discussing himself.

Words are the counters of wise men, but the money of fools.

I don't want to pay good money to hear ordinary people's lunatic views. Most of the people who phone in are [lunatics] - certainly in Britain.

Opinions are a useless currency

My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument."

I think every morning we wake up offers a new beginning, a new way of stepping into the day. I think every conversation could be a new chance.

T.C.: Um, actually you just said "I live in a parking lot." You didn't mean to do that. Lori: You've never seen traffic on Concord Street at eight o'clock in the morning.

My mother and I always had full adult communication.

If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear.

When you talk, you repeat what you already know; when you listen, you often learn something.

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'

Who cut him?' Sam liked saying things like 'Who cut him?' It reminded him of being a kid and watching prison movies, which is probably why prisoners talked like that, too.

If songs were lines in a conversation, the situation would be fine . . .

Many people learn how to talk, but they don't learn how to listen. Listening to one another is an important thing in life. And music tells us how to do that.

Music and politics are in essence about communication. Without over-stretching the analogy I do feel a sense of rhythm is important in getting your message across.

When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer.

I expect the audience to come up to my level.

I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before.

Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.

There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!

When you start off by telling those who disagree with you that they are not merely in error but in sin, how much of a dialogue do you expect?

Female listeners are leaving traditional talk radio because of the rough-edged, shouting nature of it.

But maybe the best thing I learnt was this: that we cannot know a person's soul and nature until we've sat beside them, and talked.

...I know Shakespeare said art is holding up a mirror to nature- but you're actually bending and refracting it through your interior dialogue ...