Talk Quotes

You go, well you can't joke about race. Well if you're from a different race and that's your experience of the world and you want to talk about that, then fine. Or you can't talk about disability, but disabled comics can talk about that.

It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it is wise not to look down too closely at the luminous glow which sometimes shines on your path on a summer night, if you would not see the ugly worm below.

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.

It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn't stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no.

Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.

For all the tough talk about China during the presidential debates, Romney and Obama evaded any mention of China's suspect human rights record, corruption, and rule of law. By not tackling these controversial topics, the candidates are protecting a strategic partnership with China at the expense of essential human values and beliefs.

The President would usually talk to me about matters relating to the immigration problem.

I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.

I don't want reporters to talk to me because I'm a revolutionary and if it got out that I'm basically friendly with Obama it would hurt Obama.

I learned how fast you can go from being an international hero to being a reference in a joke on a late night talk show.

If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show.

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.

There's an honesty in our family - my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.

It's good to get out of the closet and talk about it and find out other people's views.

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.

Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky.

I'm against people reading statements. When you read statement, I automatically take it as though you can't talk, and it's not real.

It's hard to talk about yourself.

I'm doing another Churchill. I did a Churchill for HBO and that was up to 1939 and there's talk of the war years. They were going to do it this fall, but the script wasn't going to be ready.

If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.

We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.

I don't want to talk about the specifics of other people's performances compared with my own. I'd never do that.

There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger.

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

When I start playing I'm just a rollercoaster of sound. I don't know what's coming next, I never do, and I sit and sign and talk to the people afterwards.

You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage.

Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.

I used to hang out by the food table at parties because you don't have to talk to anybody. If you do then you can talk about the food.

To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow... dis-ease. So any time there's disease, you're out of balance, whether it's jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear.

I miss Betty madly. I loved her. Whenever people talk about her, I get really nostalgic. There are parts of her still with me; I played her for four years and, of course, the lines get blurred.