Quotes About Talking About It

#1. I loved it, it's such fun. I like that people are seeing it and then talking about it. Like when I took my son and his friends to see Napoleon Dynamite last year, we spent the next six weeks trying to explain it.

Robert Downey Jr.

#2. 'American Graffiti' stayed in my mind, but I don't think to this day I've done a film that captured that same level of melancholy. It was so well done. Talking about it has given me the idea I might try harder to make that melancholy film!

Jean Reno

#3. The students realize that it's their life I'm talking about: it's out of balance, they're struggling to put it into balance. How are they going to do it?

Robert McKee

#4. I think Mrs. Leidner seems happier already from just talking about it. That's always a help, you know. It's bottling things up that makes them get on your nerves.

Agatha Christie

#5. I'd hate to see something like this get in his way, but a lot of people are talking about it and I know that even some states are looking at it very strongly, that the fact that Ted Cruz was born in Canada and he has a double passport.

Donald Trump

#6. Abuse of any kind thrives off secrecy. I felt like if I started talking about it, maybe other people would. I wanted to break the silence. Now I feel I'm in a much better place emotionally than I've ever been anytime in my life.

Chris Witty

#7. If you want to get over a problem, stop talking about it. Your mind affects your mouth and your mouth affects your mind. It's difficult to stop talking about a situation until you stop thinking about it.

Joyce Meyer

#8. Back in the day, if someone said that hip hop and rap was a fad, that was a joke to me because they just didn't know what they were talking about. In reality, there were so many people who didn't know what they were talking about it.

Jam Master Jay

#9. Acting is our job, not talking about it. In France, they know me like I belong to their family. I go somewhere and I feel like I'm sometimes the aunt, the grandmother, the mother, the sister. They all know me. But it's not supposed to be that way.

Carole Bouquet

#10. If you are the greatest, why would you go around talking about it?

Joe Rogan

#11. When you first heard him talking about it, you'd figure he was batshit crazy, but really, he was just trying to fill up his days so he didn't have to think about what a fucking mess he had made of everything. It's the same for most of us; forgetting our lives might be the best we'll ever do.

Donald Ray Pollock

#12. I had come to regard him as a loner with no real past and a future so vague that there was no sense talking about it.

Hunter S. Thompson

#13. Set out to be the person you know you can be. Thinking about it, and talking about it is the first step. If you can imagine it for yourself then you can do it. Take action!

Ron Baratono

#14. If you wrote a page a day, at the end of the year you would have a book. Whether it's any good or not is beside the point, but you would have a book, instead of just talking about it all the time.

Jackie Collins

#15. God is reflected in your heart as your Spirit, called as Atma. Unless and until your attention reaches that Spirit, talking about it, doing anything about it, it's absolutely useless. You have to be really born again. It's an actualization, which should take place.

Nirmala Srivastava

#16. I make fun wherever I go ... If I go to a restaurant by myself, rest assured, people will be talking about it. I always have a great deal of fun being with people. It's part of the journey.

Cloris Leachman

#17. You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.

David Byrne

#18. It's a presidential [election] year [2016], certainly everyone is talking about it, but if the history of the show tells us anything, the Big Brother cast does not usually discuss political issues like that in the house.

Allison Grodner

#19. The trouble with talking about irony is, it's such a slippery thing that the second you start talking about it, you're a better example of it than you are an analyst.

Daniel Handler

#20. People don't finish grieving until they start talking about it.

Jen Nadol

#21. Once a sadhu offered me some land that he had, so that I could have an ashram for fellow Westerners. I asked Maharajji about it. He said, "He wants to give you his attachment. It's not a pure gift. If it were pure he'd just give it to you instead of talking about it." (R.D.)

Ram Dass

#22. When we mention the 1 percent and the 99 percent, everybody now knows what we are talking about. It's part of our vocabulary. How quickly these numbers jumped from the sidelines to the center.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#23. We're all getting plastic surgery. Come on, this is the game here, and HDTV exaggerates all the features. Yeah, I'm proud of it, because we're all doing it. Nobody's talking about it.

Patti Stanger

#24. But though it was the most resonant and real-seeming thing that had happened in a long time, I didn't want to spoil it by talking about it...

Donna Tartt

#25. If you don't like your wrinkles and you think Botox or surgery is going to fix it, do it and shut up. But don't keep talking about it.

Linda Gray

#26. I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it.

John Malkovich

#27. Everyone everywhere now understands how bad things have gotten - and they're talking about it. They have the power to decide for themselves whether they are willing to sacrifice their privacy to the surveillance state.

Edward Snowden

#28. I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.

Harland Williams

#29. The reality is the majority of people are talking about it, but haven't launched it.

Suranga Chandratillake

#30. Being aware is a lot more than just reading a couple of news articles and talking about it on your preferred social network.

Noelle Scaggs

#31. If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!

Jackie Collins

#32. She said that what was in the past was best left there and that talking about it was like stirring a fresh cow pile with a wooden spoon. Didn't accomplish a thing, and only made the stink and the flies worse and the spoon useless for anything else. Then

Carolyn Brown

#33. They took all the joy out of fucking by talking about it all the time. I liked to fuck too, but it wasn't my religion.

Charles Bukowski

#34. When I see something that's sensitive, I go, 'You've got to put that out there.' You need to keep the dialogue going and shine a light on the bad guys. If you sweep it under the carpet, people forget about it. People stop talking about it.

Jeff Ross

#35. Men never understand what honor is, though they're always talking about it

Leo Tolstoy

#36. You don't have to become Mother Teresa to make an impact in the world. But nothing can be achieved if, at the very least, we are not talking about it.

Waris Ahluwalia

#37. Most people whom you may view as wine experts are usually just good at one thing: winemakers are good at making wine, sommeliers at talking about it, and wine journalists at drinking it for free.

Olivier Magny

#38. The lawyer Fetyukovich would have charged more, but the case has become known all over Russia, they're talking about it in all the newspapers and magazines, so Fetyukovich agreed to come more for the sake of glory, because the case has become so famous. I saw him yesterday.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#39. I make fun whenever I go. If I go to restaurant by myself, rest assured, people will be talking about it.

Cloris Leachman

#40. The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.

Nat King Cole

#41. There were exceptions, a couple of families that just plain didn't want to even think about it, although forty years had passed but mostly the people were very interested in talking about it.

Walter Lord

#42. I loved that phrase: soul mate. We asked Grandma what it meant and she said, 'Two people who understand each other without talking about it. Two halves of a whole.

Elizabeth Wein

#43. Mark Twain had it backwards. Nowadays everybody is doing something about the weather, but nobody is talking about it.

Stephen Schneider

#44. Looks aren't a big thing to me. I keep reading these articles in fan magazines about me, and I don't even know who they're talking about. It's boring.

Matt Dillon

#45. When I ask Connie about China, she gives nice, polite prepackaged answers. She is used to talking about it. She wants to make sure I have a nice time.

Anonymous

#46. It's that same quality I've been talking about. It's neither contrived, nor surprising and smart, not baffling, not witty, not interesting, not cynical, it can't be planned and it probably can't even be described. It's just good.

Gerhard Richter

#47. I never talk about 'Harry Potter' because I think that would rob children of something that's private to them. I think too many things get explained, so I hate talking about it.

Alan Rickman

#48. Get over it, and if you can't get over it, get over talking about it.

Marian Keyes

#49. There is an element of luck, there is an element of trial and error, sometimes you fail, sometimes you succeed. It's not as beautifully simple as it may seem when we are talking about it.

Lakhdar Brahimi

#50. There are many ways to define what it means to be a geek, but certainly one definition has to be, Someone who does something normal people do, only while wearing special pants and talking about it constantly.

BikeSnobNYC

#51. Is there a connection between language and magic? Yes. Ten times yes. So much yes that it almost doesn't bear talking about. It's as pointless that arguing that the sun is hot.

Patrick Rothfuss

#52. There are a couple of utterly important rules to writing anything, whether it's a novel, a short story or a collection of poetry. And they're really the only rules.
1: Quit talking about it and start.
2: Focus and finish it.

Nicholas Trandahl

#53. Tony La Russa was quoted as saying that I was using steroids back then, and I was talking about it in the clubhouse, openly.

Jose Canseco

#54. Rather than a situation where people are naturally finding themselves reading the same thing and then talking about it, some readers are responding to celebrity in the hope that what they read will enable them to join an international conversation.

Tim Parks

#55. Wire-walking in performance is one thing - I never fell, of course. If I had, I wouldn't be here talking about it.

Philippe Petit

#56. How would you know a Cork footballer? He's the one who thinks that oral sex is just talking about it.

John B. Keane

#57. I think we're in good shape, but the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina is in some small way mitigated by the fact that we now have more people talking about it, thinking about it and working on it, so that we will be more vigilant and ready.

John Hickenlooper

#58. They're not allowed to talk about it at school and they maybe feel uncomfortable talking about it with their parents. But instead of them not knowing about it, now we have these gadgets and we can learn about it and not tell our parents and get ourselves into potentially dangerous situations.

Sarah Steele

#59. You don't learn about sex from doing it with boys, but from talking about it with girls.

Suzanne Moore

#60. When you love something you just don't want to stop talking about it.

Neil Gaiman

#61. I just want to sleep. The whole point of not talking about it, of silencing the memory, is to make it go away. It won't. I'll need brain surgery to cut it out of my head.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#62. None. They should just go out and photograph and stop talking about it. That's the only way they are going to find themselves. They can't do it in their heads - they have to go out and do it in the camera and get it on film.

Berenice Abbott

#63. I had luck, but I worked hard and I suffered. It's not just photography I'm talking about. It's about whatever dream you want it to be.

Sam Abell

#64. People say talking about it makes it better. Sometimes talking about it makes it worse.

Kelly Batten

#65. I want the players to play that way, so I'd better manage that way. The philosophy has been thrown out there. We've been talking about it. We've been working on it, so let's see how it works. Let's see if theory and reality can come together.

Joe Maddon

#66. Every time I talked about making a picture I didn't do it. I had already done it - talking about it! I quit talking.

Harry Callahan

#67. It ain't dying I'm talking about, it's living. I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live." ~spoken by Augustus McCrae

Larry McMurtry

#68. I was happy but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They are or they are not. Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not. Talking about it is the same as trying to catch the wind. Much easier to let it blow all over you.

Jeanette Winterson

#69. If people want to talk about anything I do, they can give it any name they want. As long as they're talking about it, I think it's great.

Katie Aselton

#70. Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it.

Jonathan Sacks

#71. When it comes to the income of the ministry, I have no problem talking about it or what happens to the money.

Benny Hinn

#72. Labor believes in sustainability. We believe in acting on climate change, not just talking about it.

Anthony Albanese

#73. I remember specifically, in the summer of 2002, the rate of women infected with HIV/AIDS was beginning to match the rate of men, and nobody was talking about it. It was as if it was on nobody else's radar. I had made up my mind to do something about it.

Sheryl Lee Ralph

#74. The second greatest pleasure after love is talking about it.

Louise Labe

#75. I would've never done a 1970's road movie. It just wouldn't have occurred to me. So when he started talking about it he brought up all these movies and he'll do that with you guys and you'll feel the Goosebumps as you start realizing the story that he wanted to tell.

Todd Farmer

#76. Not wasting any water bottles is good. Not leaving the lights on is good. Turning the thermostat down in the winter, up in the summer, is good. But the best thing any of us in the developed world, especially in the United States, can be doing is talking about it.

Bill Nye

#77. This is the difficulty about talking about it without sounding big-headed, but you cannot speak of New Zealand now without my involvement in what it has become.

David Lange

#78. Look, the FBI has the tools necessary un-American activities in our country. It goes on, we shouldn't even be talking about it.

Jeb Bush

#79. I think if you've suffered, if you've experienced loss, you're probably more open to understanding it and more comfortable talking about it and experiencing it.

Anderson Cooper

#80. Planning to be a seducer was difficult enough. Talking about it with the seducee would be impossible.

Lori Foster

#81. Immigration, of course, in New Hampshire is - it's not something that you see every day. It's not like talking about it in Texas, where people have a much more explicit sense of it.

Evan Osnos

#82. He's been living on the fringes of art for so many years, talking and talking about it, that he's come to expect all the prerogatives of being an artist without ever doing the work. I mean he's an art bum ...

Richard Yates

#83. It's just natural, it's not a great disaster. People keep talking about it like it's The End of The Earth. It's only a rock group that split up, it's nothing important. You know, you have all the old records there if you want to reminisce.

John Lennon

#84. When you don't know what you're talking about, it's hard to know when you're finished.

Tommy Smothers

#85. I didn't want to hear about death. It was all anyone talked about, even when no one was actually talking about it.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#86. How are we going to get rid of racism? Stop talking about it!

Morgan Freeman

#87. I guess libertarianism is always considered so weird and fringe that people assume that you're in the closet if you don't go around talking about it.

Dave Barry

#88. Time travel was once considered scientific heresy, and I used to avoid talking about it for fear of being labelled a 'crank.'

Stephen Hawking

#89. The Madden Curse has really taken on a life of its own. People just love talking about it, and it is what it is, but I look at it as a challenge.

Drew Brees

#90. God-fearing people, once they're saved from their sins, they don't mind talking about it.

Phil Robertson

#91. Well the only reason to go back, for me and I think for anyone involved would be if we could do something truly spectacular. We've been talking about it for a couple years and there's always been this idea, a big idea, in the back of my head that we've been talking about.

Joseph Kosinski

#92. You can't move beyond your past if you keep talking about it like it's your present.

Kemi Sogunle

#93. I was at a book convention, in a cab. On one side of me was Arthur Schlesinger; on the other side was William Manchester - real heavyweights. All they were doing was asking me about Charles Manson. The only thing that enables me not to be bored is the people talking about it - they're so interested.

Vincent Bugliosi

#94. But I knew - in the old days, if a song was a good song, I don't care if it was 'Yellow Submarine' or, you know, or 'The Times They Are a-Changin' or 'Don't Be Cruel', you knew it, you know? You heard that song, and you were talking about it, and you knew it.

Don McLean

#95. You know I think that going into therapy is a very positive thing, and talking about it is really helpful, because the more you talk the more your fears fade, because you get it out.

Fran Drescher

#96. I don't think it's too late for 'The War of the Worlds' to come true. I'm talking about it from the standpoint that which you need to have and own things - to breed, to think, to create - is going on everywhere, not just on this planet or in the space around it.

Dwight Schultz

#97. Usually people have gone through years of in vitro, just trying. The dilemma that faces infertile couples right now in America, there's so many of them. That's why - you know that's why I started talking about it, so that they didn't hear just the terrible stories.

Joan Lunden

#98. If you persist in identifying with current or prior performance by constantly thinking and talking about it, then where you have been, where you are, and where you are going will all be one and the same

Tommy Newberry

#99. I think the process of being hopeful, being really opportunity oriented, not just in rhetoric but in action, showing that no one get's left behind, not just by talking about it but by doing it, I think is really a key [to political success].

John Kasich

#100. I knew I could never forget my past, but I wanted to stop talking about it so that I would be fully present in my new life.

Ishmael Beah