Quotes About Dialogue

As a member of Congress who represents one of the few true swing districts in the country, I have always tried to engage groups of people who don't necessarily agree with all my votes or opinions.

Democrats in 2020 can't just drive by red counties. You have to stop, get out of your car, ask for people's votes, and engage with them on issues that relate to their lives.

I have a dialogue coach who helps me out with some of the more tricky Chicago vowel sounds.

I come by writing dialogue fairly naturally, I've got a chatty family; I'm a bit of a voyeur, and if I'm ever in a public place, I automatically find myself listening.

In 'Expendables 2,' there was a lot of vulgar dialogue in the screenplay. For this reason, many young people wouldn't be able to watch this. But I don't play in movies like this. Due to that, I said, 'I won't be a part of that if the hardcore language is not erased.'

Sometimes you're working with somebody, and you can tell they're just waiting to say their line.

Give the benefit of the doubt to your opponents if they walk back a controversial statement.

Television is a prisoner of dialogue and steady-cam. People walk down a hall, and the camera follows them around a corner.

I'm making strides to have dialogue with life. I'm walking down a garden path, something like that. And you're looking at the trees, and then you start to look at them through your inner eye.

It's a gratifying feeling to be in the middle of so many people, speak to them on different issues, meet people from all walks of life in panchayats.

I'd love to have Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump together. How amazing would that be?

The best way for people to understand each other's faith is to share experiences.

I'm a real big fan of words.

The biggest mistake we can make is to box people out - tell them, 'You're wrong, you're racist, you don't belong in the conversation.'

The biggest mistake most people make when it comes to listening is they're so focused on what they're going to say next or how what the other person is saying is going to affect them that they fail to hear what's being said.

When you're actually talking over someone, it's as if you're just pontificating and they're not even there. And their body language - they're trying to get away from you. And if you're pontificating at an audience, and there's a break, the non-martyrs in the audience are not going to come back. I mean, they just want to get away from you.

You don't fight ideas with bombs.

Never ask a bore a question.

I don't do Shakespeare. I don't talk in that kind of broken English.

Without great writing, you've got a bunch of actors bumping into each other.

Part of being successful is about asking questions and listening to the answers.

I think a lot of the most interesting work in art and in films are often kind of polarized opinions and affect people in very different ways, which may be less successful commercially, but they elicit a dialogue that's quite interesting.

There is such a thing as my kind of actor, and how well they pull off my dialogue is a very, very important part of it.

I'm just a sucker for a good script.