Quotes About Interaction

We are a company for the people, please get involved. Be part of the conversation.

The people at Columbia Pictures have been great, but I had to tell them, 'Please don't be nice to me. Just pay me.'

The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.

I sat with him for three hours and we did not exchange a single word. At the end he handed me, as he had done before, an envelope with money in it. It would have been much nicer if he had enclosed a greeting or a loving word. I would have been so pleased if he had.

It pleases me that people can be interactive.

Now that I have conquered social anxiety disorder, I find pleasure in fans approaching me.

I like interaction. I like engagement. My favorite part of Twitter is really the mentions and interacting with people. It's rarely just the broadcasting of my opinions. I have plenty of other mediums to do that.

Plenty of couples snipe at each other in sometimes embarrassing ways in front of company.

One time, a girl dropped her phone in my pocket and I found it and was like, 'There you go.' And she said, 'If you'd had my phone, you'd have had to meet up with me to give it back.'

I really think we have a future ahead of us where chat is obviously a big part of it, but I don't think the context of having that little assistant in your pocket is necessarily the only place where it will be.

You pass a poem to the audience through the words as embodied literally by the rest of your human form. And the people listening and watching come back at you in an equally embodied way.

I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet.

I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful little, fizzy sort of world.

There is a natural rhythm to parent-child interactions, including the fact that some parental insights prove poignant and veridical decades after they were first shared with us.

My interviews are very pointed. I'm an active participant; I will kindly interrupt people. But I've learned there is nothing people won't tell you if you ask in a compassionate and legitimately interested way.

Onstage, even though you're here together with the other actor, face-to-face, playing out the scene, you also have that other ear pointed out toward the audience and how they're listening. That informs a lot.

I think it's pretty pointless, my children learning to use a keyboard - we will just talk to our computers. Why would we not?

It's no fun being a salesperson when it feels like you're talking to a wall. That's what it feels like when you haven't learned your customer's points of interest.

People will clap to be nice. They will not laugh to be nice.

It's not about being modern or classical or about being sexy: it's all about exchanging energies with the audience.

A classroom setting for me was an audience.

There is no bore like a clever bore.

Sometimes, you can not click with somebody, and it can feel awkward.

I don't think kids climbing up the leg of someone is a big deal.