Quotes About Conversation

I remember my first scene with Alan Rickman, and I was anxious because he is a slight 'method' actor; as soon as he is in his cloak, he walks and talks like Snape - it is quite terrifying. But I really wanted to talk to him because 'Robin Hood' was one of my favourite films.

I speak to more people across different walks of life, I would bet than most people.

I wouldn't mind being a fly on the wall in a few Victorian parlours.

I'm very happy that whenever we talk about Bengali cinema anywhere in India, people talk about me with a lot of respect.

Max Baer called me one morning and told me that Carl Foreman was making a movie based on the book 'Mackenna's Gold' and he was sure that I was right for one of the parts. He was so ebullient about it that he bent my ear for 20 minutes.

What do you do with your best friend? You do nothing.

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.

I talk bilingual.

I think if a 30-year-old Bill Cosby sat on stage with a 72-year-old Bill Cosby, they would enjoy each other.

The way I talk is bizarre.

Like, if you don't want to talk to me it's your loss, and basically I'm a big deal so you should be bloody lucky to be talking to me.

Mandela once phoned me out of the blue while he was still president, and at first he played with me a bit.

Someone asked if I wanted to be the first female Bond, and I was saying that I don't think we necessarily need that whole conversation.

Hair in the black community is such a big thing culturally. The barbershop is a place for black men to socialise, catch up and bond. It's the same for black women in the salon. Going there is my favourite thing to do in the week. You catch up with people, someone comes around with food, someone else is selling something.

I think bathrooms are where everyone bonds. That is the bonding place.

Endless motorbike talk can and does bore me.

I have a good mind but I don't like to bore anyone with it.

Never ask a bore a question.

I was crushingly bored talking about politics 30 hours a week.

I've been very clear that childcare is a parents' issue. Men need to be confident that they can have a conversation with their bosses about the need to work flexibly, as I hope women are.

When I sit down with my team before an engagement, sometimes they are horrified as I say I don't want to read the biographical brief because I prefer to prise information out of people. It becomes like a game. The stories that come out, I could write a book about.

I would think Australians would understand 'guy talk' better than most. Definitely better than Brits.

I'll babble, bubble and talk around those I know real good.

Think about back in the day when we had Archie Bunker, 'The Jeffersons.' We had stuff to sit down and share and laugh at. The Internet has made it so we don't have to sit together anymore. It's so self-absorbed. No one has to talk to each other anymore, and people don't realize that that is killing us.