Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary Kay Ash

If I'm talking to someone in a crowded room, I try to make this person feel as though we're the only ones present. I shut out everything else. I look directly at the person. Even if a gorilla were to walk into the room, I probably wouldn't notice it.

Michael Gambon

There are some actors who are rehearsal actors, and some who are not. I am not. Having said that, I don't know what I am talking about.

Michelle Williams

It's all so personal, isn't it? It's hard to talk about work without talking about things that are personal. Work is personal. I don't want to talk about my personal life, but it's on my mind, and it's in my work.

Michio Kaku

One day when I was 8 years old, everyone was talking in hushed tones about a great scientist that had just died. His name was Albert Einstein.

Michelangelo Antonioni

Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.

Michel Hazanavicius

First of all, I had the desire for that format [silent movie], and then when I was talking to people, I felt that people needed justification. Why are you doing a silent movie? Is it just for your own pleasure? I felt it was not enough for them so I realized I have to choose the subject that will make things easier for them and to tell the story of a silent actor makes sense for doing a silent movie.

Martha Wainwright

I don't like talking about music.

Oscar Wilde

The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.

Oscar Wilde

Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

Oscar Wilde

I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.

Madonna Ciccone

I can't stand when I walk into a room and everyone's not talking to each other and just on their phones.

Lykke Li

I had a period after touring the first record where I didn't agree with the way things worked in the music industry as far as how you release music, demand, the pace of everything. You don't know who's talking to you. Who's Spotify? Who's iTunes? Who are all those bloggers? Who says I have to do this? Why do you have to do all this press? Why do I have to do so many shows? Why do I have to do a regular album right now? I don't understand it.

Luke Wilson

It's always been my personal feeling that unless you are married, there is something that is not very dignified about talking about who you are dating.

Lucinda Williams

I'm dealing with things as they come along, and I'm talking about it

Louis Kronenberger

In general, American social life constitutes an evasion of talking to people. Most Americans don't, in any vital sense, get together; they only do things together.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

There's a point of poverty at which the spirit isn't with the body all the time. It finds the body really too unbearable. So it's almost as if you were talking to the soul itself. And a soul's not properly responsible.

Louis L'Amour

One never realizes how much and how little he knows until he starts talking.

Lorraine Hansberry

Everybody talking 'bout heaven ain't going there!

Melanie Lynskey

I feel like I'm kind of faking something if I'm talking as myself and putting on an accent.

John Dingell

Let's look at the system. First, the characteristics they're talking about they say is a fingerprint. In fact, it's more like a tire print.

From talking to him, I think he wants to play receiver.

From what we have been talking about, it's going to be really something.

Michael Robinson

I get upset. I feel like they're talking about my dad.

Matt Johnson

If we're talking about Hartford and Rutland being like No. 15 seeds, I don't see anything easy.

If they say they're talking about the weather, then it's not an issue,

Henry Thomas

She was just talking him down, talking him down.

Sex? What are you talking about? That's crazy. Look man, I'm engaged. That would put me in trouble.

Jim Gaffigan

The whole idea of comedy, there is nothing normal about going up on stage to make strangers laugh. But I'm also not an exhibitionist like other comics. I'm not up there talking about masturbating.

Jesse Jackson

I'm not wasting my time with any more non-straight-talking candidates.

Jeffrey Tambor

I don't like show business. I don't like the business. I love acting. I love this. I love talking to people.

Jeff Foxworthy

If you don't have anything good to say about someone, you must be talking about Hillary Clinton.

Jeff Foxworthy

When I did the sitcom I was too naive. I thought, Well, they know what they're talking about, let's do that.

James Caan

There's nothing more boring than actors talking about acting.