Quotes About Interaction

No very sharp line can be drawn between social psychology and individual psychology.

I find that communication as an actor and person is an important part of who I am. And I'm really drawn into the psychology of those dynamics.

I've always been interested in social psychology and why certain groups of people do things while others don't.

I want my fans to be able to approach me in public and not think that I'm some robot who only exists online.

That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.

It's good-bye to public life in the way that you try to communicate with an audience playfully, like we're friends, beyond the work you are actually paid for.

Look, when you're in the public life you have to understand, the press - good bad or indifferent - is going to chase you on occasion. When they do, you give them an opportunity to do their job and then you generally get the respect that they'll move out of your way but not always.

In Bronxville, New York, we went to public school there, before London. Mother had a great belief in public school. She said it was very good for us to meet all the neighborhood kids.

You go through publicists because it's easy for a publicist to say to another publicist, 'No'.

It almost hurts me to walk down a road and have people grab my hand and ask for my autograph and not sit and talk. When I'm finished I'm not going to be on the front page, but I'm going to be just as happy without the publicity.

For example, the philosophers who were interested in logic were probably rather logical for mathematicians. But the ASL got us together, so we could talk to each other and publish in the same journal.

I think that the continuity of what I do as an editor with what I did when I started out 40 years ago is very direct. The delivery system is changing and will continue to, but the actual interaction between publisher and author is exactly the same.

Publishers are born connectors; they bring like-minded people together. They are also conversationalists of the first order. They foster the interaction between the three key parties in commercial media: the audience, the author/creator and the marketer.

You can't go up to girls and start talking about minor 7ths and expect to pull. It's not going to work.

One game that drives me crazy, is when a guy gives the girl they really like more attention, and then they feel like maybe they pressed too hard, so they back way off and start giving other women attention. I've never pulled this myself.

When you come in the club, people are trying to get your attention, so they pull your hand. It's like, why are you pulling on me?

What I really like about stand-up is there's 100 people in a room, and you can just feel the pulse. It's very human.

I've had girls that kissed me on the cheek. People get so pumped, and so excited, they don't see you as a person. Which is fair. Sometimes, I don't see people as people. But at the end of the day, you can't put your hands on me unless I hug you first.

I get an awful lot of people coming up and saying they went to school with me. There must have been 80,000 pupils at that school!

The way I talk to the puppets is real, and it's in the moment, and it's seeing what will happen. It's not something that is scripted.

You know, working with puppets - there is just something about it. Because the puppet takes on its own personality.

A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

I saw a boy of the crew purchasing javelins of them with bits of platters and broken glass.

I like to go to Africa purely with something to do. I'm not very comfortable getting into an armor-plated Land Rover and going to see things, with my hand gel, you know, it's not me at all. So I like to hang out and you know, really get to know people and try and do something that resonates with them.