Quotes About Dialogue

Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves.

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

Eyes are the greatest tool in film. Mr. Capra taught me that. Sure it's nice to say very good dialogue, if you can get it. But great movie acting - watch the eyes!

There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.

I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers.

Ah, good conversation - there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.

The mark of a good conversationalist is not that you can talk a lot. The mark is that you can get others to talk a lot. Thus, good schmoozer's are good listeners, not good talkers.

All problems exist in the absence of a good conversation.

One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.

good people managers are likely to listen more than they speak. Perhaps that's why we were given two ears and only one mouth.

Rather than assume that the wealthy are a monolithic, selfish and unfeeling lot who must be subjugated by the force of the state, set a tone that encourages people of good will to meet in the middle.

Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone.

Good listeners are perceived as good conversationalists.

Listening is as important as talking. If you're a good listener, people often compliment you for being a good conversationalist.

I like being around people who are good conversationalists.

If you can listen well, people will say you're a good conversationalist.

I'm good at coming up with wacky characters and funny dialogue.

Good writing is good conversation, only more so.

To do my job well, I have to be a good listener. The listening is so much more important than the talking.

Let people speak. Let people disagree. Communicate. Listen. Have high-respect, if not for your opponent, then for your own comportment and conduct as a good listener.

Aimwell: Then you understand Latin, Mr. Bonniface? Bonniface: Not I, Sir, as the saying is, but he talks it so very fast that I'm sure it must be good.

All of the good movies are based on how that story was told. And you cannot do it with a bad script, that's for sure, no matter who.