Talks Quotes

And then, all of a sudden, you're like, all that's great and fun, but Arthur Miller's in my dressing room. This is the third night he's been here and he sits in my dressing room for an hour after each show, and talks to me for an hour. So I'm pretty spoiled right now.

Is it a coincidence that in 1998, Barack Obama talks about a majority coalition of welfare recipients and in 2012 we got a record number of Americans on food stamps while he's president? I don't think it's a coincidence.

Whoever stands for 'one China' will get our support. We can have talks with them, and our talks will cover anything.

I mean, George Bush is a man of prayer. He talks to the lord. He tries to get his direction from the lord.

Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.

Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.

The idea seems to be to use the next treaty talks to strike a grand bargain: Britain will be helpful to those states wishing to establish a fiscal union among themselves if, in exchange, we can amicably derogate from the aspects of the EU which we dislike.

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the "freedom of the press" goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.

True wisdom listens more, talks less and can get along with all types of people.

Body language is essential for an actress, even if you don't use your body in an athletic way. Just to be free, to use it like your voice. A body can be small and have incredible violence. A body talks.

I mean the game is just, everybody talks about baseball but I really think football probably has a little bit more American feeling than anything.

He who talks much cannot talk well.

I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.

The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death and everyone talks in monologue.

When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic.

There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation.

They've got this crazy actor who's 82 years old up there in a suit. I was a mayor, and they're probably thinking I know how to give a speech, but even when I was mayor I never gave speeches. I gave talks.

The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.

Everyone just talks about the problems our teenage girls are facing and what they're dealing with. But there was, to me, a void in how they were being served or helped. I thought, 'Wow, I'd love to create something.'

Any time the president talks, you listen.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.

No stranger ever comes up and talks to me. I'm the invisible woman.

The British government says that for Sinn Fein to be involved in talks the guns must be left at the door.

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

I'm tired of high policy talks. I want to focus on nuts and bolts.

I'm not someone who enjoys long talks, long rehearsals. I'm very technical: I tell my actors, you come in, you sit down, you pick up a coffee, you look here, you say the line. We try it with the cameras rolling, and if it doesn't work, we adjust it until it does. It's very simple.

There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does.

When the President of Iran talks about removing Israel from the face of the Earth and is building nuclear bombs with a range of 3000km, you have to be worried.

In L.A., unless you've just won an Oscar or you're Mr. Studio Head, no one talks to you. Even at parties.