Quotes about Communication

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

It annoys me when I phone a hotel receptionist in my own country, and they don't understand what I am saying because they don't speak English. I think that's wrong. It's nothing to do with being politically correct or incorrect; it's just not right.

Being politically correct means saying what's polite rather than what's accurate. I like to be accurate.

Politicians can't manage. All they can do is talk.

I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction.

You can see it with social media and things like that, back in the day it was harder to convince people that the police are wrong, which sounds crazy, but that's how it was back then.

I've only ever taken a playwriting class, but I like creative writing and writing screenplays.

Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

One reason why I've taken 11 years to make my second Hindi film is because I am comfortable working with the stars in the South, as they are with me.

We've reached a point where people are actually afraid to talk about what they want to say, because somebody might be offended. We've got to get over this sensitivity and it keeps people from saying what they really believe.

I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.

My parents are actors and never brought work home. I didn't even know what they did until I was about 10 years old. We never talked about it.