1,251 Quotes About Talking

  • Author Ted Allen
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    It's okay if you finish cooking something easy after your guests arrive - some dishes must be prepared a la minute, as chefs say. Just remember to keep talking.

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  • Author Angela Braly
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    People have been talking about competition among insurers, and what they really need to be talking about is competition in the delivery of health care as well.

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  • Author Anne Bancroft
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    I am quite surprised, that with all my work, and some of it is very, very good, that nobody talks about The Miracle Worker. We're talking about Mrs. Robinson. I understand the world... I'm just a little dismayed that people aren't beyond it yet.

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  • Author Annie Baker
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    I'm very interested in silence. And, more importantly, in what happens when people aren't talking on stage. I'm interested in letting actors play and do things between the lines. And in slowing everything down.

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  • Author Antonio Banderas
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    I discovered very soon, especially for movies, because I started in theater, that every director has his own universe. You have to be free enough to try to understand what he wants from you. Especially when that director has a tremendous personality. And I'm talking about people like Pedro Almodovar and Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino and Woody Allen. And you have to adapt. If you don't adapt to them, you are off the thing.

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  • Author Arthur Balfour
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    The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.

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