Talk Quotes

If I was going to make a broad generalisation, I'd say that I prefer the company of women. People know now that I live with Mike Figgis, but I prefer not to talk about it. On one level, privacy is important, but on another level I have no desire to deny certain things.

Back in 2008, candidate Obama called a $10 trillion national debt 'unpatriotic' - serious talk from what looked to be a serious reformer. Yet by his own decisions, President Obama has added more debt than any other president before him, and more than all the troubled governments of Europe combined. One president, one term, $5 trillion in new debt.

They were very generous with me. Everybody was willing to talk about their particular accident, what they had to deal with and how they got back in touch with their competitors' spirit.

I lived that life for real, so to talk about it was like a joke, you know what I mean?

In every person we meet there's this little piece of God in them and that's who you talk to. And that's the only person that you allow to talk to you. When something else is speaking, you walk away from that. If it's not good, if it's not love, you walk away from it.

Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.

When we talk about Oscars, it's almost as a symbol of excellence, and the American public and the worldwide public accept that symbol. So, a movie like 'The Artist' that costs $14 million, has to go out and compete with movies that cost $140 million. How does David deal with Goliath?

They are sick in their minds. They say they brought 65 tanks into center of city. I say to you this talk is not true. This is part of their sick mind.

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself.

I think maybe the rural influence in my life helped me in a sense, of knowing how to get close to people and talk to them and get my work done.

Today, the people are governing the governments. And when they begin to talk to each other, they are surprised, they can be friends. Why should we hate each other?

I have to say when we talk about the treatment of these prisoners that I would guess that these prisoners wake up every morning thanking Allah that Saddam Hussein is not in charge of these prisons.

They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

I don't think the objective of an abortion clinic is to try to talk women out of having the procedure. That obviously would not be positive for their bottom line.

A President doesn't have a terribly long time to talk to people who are not really on the agenda.

When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.

There are things coming from me that I felt I wanted to talk about. My search for my own blend of spirituality, my acknowledgement of my sexuality, my being the single mother of a young man.

I feel like my honesty gives people the freedom to talk about things they wouldn't otherwise.

The girl I find who wants to talk about quantum theory in a bar is the one I want to marry.

I've been lucky. I've met a lot of baseball people, and I've learned to value people who talk - people who talk well and in long sentences and even long paragraphs.

I think we should all talk to our enemies and talk to our friends. Talk! That's the only way we'll find solutions.

We will often talk to Liz Smith about couples and relationships because she always has an inside track, too.

I'm an actor I'm not a politician. I always kick myself when I talk too much about family, or personal things.

It's about, I did talk about my life in broad strokes and what home meant to me in order to really explore the subject of home and can you go back and what that means for people in that sense of community that we've lost.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

I don't think journalists should talk about whom they're voting for.

A lot of old guys in movies are like cowboys - they talk like cowboys and they dress like cowboys.

You know, we're a tight family. I live right down the street from my folks. I talk to my mother every day. I'm a momma's boy. We all are. So there's no exclusion in this family. You're part of it. We embrace you and lift you up.

I didn't know it at the time, but Hitch didn't want to talk to me - he hated meeting with people he might have to reject. As it turned out, someone, maybe his agent, insisted that he interview me.