Telling Quotes

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed.

I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.

My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.

I love meeting new people and telling them about my stories and my projects that I am working on.

George Carlin is kind of my template now because George Carlin before was straight laced regular comic and he had short hair, a tie, suit, nightclub guy. Then he said screw it, let his hair grow, just started telling what he thought was the truth. So that's what I'm trying to do.

I'm most interested in working and learning from different people and telling good stories.

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

What pisses me off is when I've got seven or eight record company fat pig men sitting there telling me what to wear.

My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog was telling me to kill my father.

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

When you're young, you think you can do anything, and that was really a gift. That's why I can never understand someone telling me 'no' today. 'No' just isn't an option.

I'm not interested in making a $60-million studio film with a bunch of 24-year-olds telling me what to do.

Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.

There was a whole display set up of all the X-Men paraphernalia. My wife couldn't resist telling this 5-year-old boy that I was Wolverine. The little kid looked up at me and he was staring at me.

Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back.

When I was with Ellen, I was telling people, If you come out, it's gonna be better for you. But I honestly don't know that.

I haven't accepted anyone telling me what is or isn't possible and have just kept moving along toward my goals.

The problem is neutrality ends in poverty, neutrality ends in choices that hurt people's lives. This administration is deliberately telling organizations that are there to help young girls make good choices, not to tell them what the good choice is. That is absolutely unconscionable.

I can assume that the younger generations will no longer know what vinyl was. Maybe some kids will take their CD back to the shop, telling the shop owner they have a faulty disc and if they could please get a new one.

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.

I was actually telling people that - by harnessing the atom - we could enter a new era of unlimited power that would do away with the need to dam our beautiful streams.

When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.

I hate a movie that will end by telling you that the first thing you should do is learn to love yourself. That is so insulting and condescending, and so meaningless. My characters don't learn to love each other or themselves.

I had been warned not to get on a motorcycle, sort of. I think there is a clause in most general basic contracts to keep yourself in one piece and not alter your looks without telling them first.

Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it.

We were telling everybody we weren't getting back together when we were in the studio actually recording. We wanted to try it on, to see how it would fit.

They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard.

I love heels, I'm telling you. When I walk in flats, I get knee pain.

Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.