Want To Talk Quotes

#1. How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?

Tavis Smiley

#2. We should talk," he said from behind me.
I closed my eyes. "You always want to talk," I muttered. "But you never actually say anything with meaning.

Scott Tracey

#3. What the fuck do you want?" After a pause, he said in a firm voice, "This is Dylan Keeley, the guy who would've killed to trade places with you until five minutes ago." He met my eyes. "She doesn't want to talk to you. Now why don't you go back to screwing your prom queen and let me do the same.

Jeri Smith-Ready

#4. When I see a fan coming over, I can't help but make an assumption about what they want to talk about. A middle-aged American woman will head over, and I think, 'Game of Thrones.' Turns out it's 'The Tudors' or 'Elementary' or 'The Hunger Games.' It's always a surprise.

Natalie Dormer

#5. You go, well you can't joke about race. Well if you're from a different race and that's your experience of the world and you want to talk about that, then fine. Or you can't talk about disability, but disabled comics can talk about that.

Jimmy Carr

#6. People, in my long experience, want to talk. They may believe they wish to keep secrets, and they may believe that they are capable of doing so. But the truth is that secrets exist to be revealed; and it is usually very easy to find the combination of words that will cause them to emerge.

J. Robert Lennon

#7. I don't really relate to certain blokey men who just want to talk about blokey things. I never really know what to say and I always feel I have to act blokey in order to have them not say, 'You're a weirdo.'

Guy Pearce

#8. Don't moralize at me! I have no love
For images, old gods, prophetic words.
I want to talk to Utnapishtim!
Tell me how.

Herbert Mason

#9. I didn't know it at the time, but Hitch didn't want to talk to me - he hated meeting with people he might have to reject. As it turned out, someone, maybe his agent, insisted that he interview me.

Joseph Stefano

#10. Hunger and homelessness aren't things we always want to talk about.

K.A. Applegate

#11. I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.

Quentin Blake

#12. I want to talk to a nation, not to a select committee.

Joseph Pulitzer

#13. We choose to be writers because we don't want to talk.

Gloria Steinem

#14. I desperately want to talk to her now. I want to ask her who it was who so deftly crafted and shaped the legend that was our love.

Dan Simmons

#15. There are those who deny me the right to speak of God, because I am not a believer. And I say that I have every right in the world. I want to talk about God because it is a problem that affects all humanity.

Jose Saramago

#16. I don't want to talk to anyone, lest I squander your words' echo, which ripples like a shine over mine and lends their sound a richness.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#17. I want to talk about my band, you know what I mean? I don't want to talk about other bands.

Chino Moreno

#18. I want to talk to him. I want to ask him about that girl and if he loved her and still misses her.

Markus Zusak

#19. I want to talk to you," she said, "for hours and days and forever, but we can't right now. Not here, and not while we're still in danger.

Dan Wells

#20. I don't need much more money, and I thought that when I retired that nobody would want to talk to me anymore. Then I did, and people still want to talk to me.

Johnny Ramone

#21. I want to talk. I actually want to tell someone what I feel. I want to tell her, but I can't. I don't do that. I don't confide. I don't vent. I don't share. I don't trust anyone, ever.

Sarah Ann Walker

#22. Either a writer doesn't want to talk about his work, or he talks about it more than you want.

Anatole Broyard

#23. That's what friends did. Let each other off the hook when they didn't want to talk.

Lauren Dane

#24. I've definitely grown apart from a lot of my friends. Some of them don't understand the schedule, and it's not that I don't want to talk to them, it's that sometimes I am really busy and can't get back to them.

Mila Kunis

#25. You and I have a connection that nothing, not on heaven or earth, or even hell, could ever break. If you want to talk to me, talk to me. I'll hear you ...

Cynthia Hand

#26. There are stories that people don't want to talk about that brought this music through.

Ruth Brown

#27. I have a lot of good football talk with cabbies, but when you want to get somewhere in a hurry, it can be distracting. I always know they're going to want to talk football if 'Talksport' is on the radio.

Frank Lampard

#28. I can't talk about my childhood at all, because cannot say "I" when I mean "we," and if I say "we" it leads to a conversation about how I have a dead sister, instead of what I want to talk about. I found that out in the summer. So I don't talk about it.

Jo Walton

#29. I love the sport of snowboarding so much, but I just don't want to talk about it, ever.

Shaun White

#30. It was at the Children's Defense Fund that I met Hillary. I was 21, feisty, and ready to fight. And I remember thinking immediately, 'Here is a woman who doesn't mess around.' Steel in her spine, Hillary didn't want to talk about anything other than how to make children's lives better.

Donna Brazile

#31. Okay, so I want to talk about it. Dammit, how can you be so good at the whole keeping things to yourself thing? It's really hard.

Samantha Young

#32. I'm not used to being asked what I want to talk about. That's why I'm an actress. Get told what to do, stand on the mark, say your words, wear this, look this way, look that way.

Kristin Scott Thomas

#33. That's one of the things books do. They help us talk. But they also give us something we can all talk about when we don't want to talk about ourselves.

Will Schwalbe

#34. I made so many films which were more important, but the only one people ever want to talk about is that one with Bogart.

Ingrid Bergman

#35. I need to see Jakob Hertzoon."
"Who?"
Kaz felt like he was about to climb out of his skin. He pointed through the window. "Jakob fucking Hertzoon. I want to talk to him.

Leigh Bardugo

#36. Kids are more genuine. When they come up and want to talk to you, they don't have an agenda. It's more endearing and less piercing to your aura.

Alan Cumming

#37. When you go into a room, you knock first. If you start asking people questions and they start tilting back in their chairs, it means they don't want to talk about it. It means if you look at something on their computer screens, they're likely to knock your brains out with a baseball bat.

Carol Plum-Ucci

#38. I was angry. I was kind of looking for a fight. I didn't want to talk to you guys in the press, because initially, understandably, all they wanted to talk to me about was, you know, what does it feel like?

Joe Biden

#39. I don't even have voice mail, and people get all out of shape about that. But, you know what, I don't want to transcribe your message; I want to talk to you. And that kind of freaks people out a bit. They go, 'Oh, who has time to talk?' and I'm like, 'Well, I'm gonna make time.'

Anita Baker

#40. If I thought a man had never committed a sin in his life, I don't think I'd want to talk with him. A man with flaws is more interesting.

Kirk Douglas

#41. I want to talk about how I survived. It is not a long story. It is only a few pages long. It started with the word 'winter'.

Abigail George

#42. Do you want to talk about it?" I ask softly, afraid to pry but wanting him to share what deep, dark secret has a hold on him. Me playing Ana to his Christian.

K. Bromberg

#43. Older people say, 'Oh I loved you in 'Sense and Sensibility,' and that's the only film they want to talk about. Equally, there are people who only want to talk about 'Galaxy Quest.' And there's a whole bunch of teenagers who only want to talk about 'Dogma.'

Alan Rickman

#44. My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?

Flip Wilson

#45. Please, Sadie, I know I don't deserve it, but I want to talk to you. I need to talk to you.

Abbi Glines

#46. By the time I'm 40, interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age, anyway.

Ace Frehley

#47. Some of my biggest moments have been in jam sessions, but I don't want to talk about them. There were always other people involved.

Coleman Hawkins

#48. And I also serve on a caucus that addresses financial literacy for young people in this country. And it is so hypocritical that we want to talk to these kids about how to better manage their money when we are not doing a good job with our Nation's resources.

Melissa Bean

#49. If I read too much or know too much it's not because I want to talk about it, it's only because it's interesting for me.

Karl Lagerfeld

#50. I think for love to work you have to be with someone who you want to talk to before going to bed at night.

Cynthia Rowley

#51. I love flawed characters, male or female, and I only want to talk about flawed characters, really, in what I do.

Jenji Kohan

#52. I used to do a lot of interviews in the early '80s, when my career started, but it came to a point when I decided I didn't want to talk anymore, and people kind of understood that and left me alone.

George Strait

#53. Parents who always whisper the word "sex" unintentionally tell their kids, "I don't want to talk about this. Get your answers elsewhere.

Michael Rittenhouse

#54. After the other day at the playground, I wasn't sure if you would want to talk to me or not,' Drew said, his eyes serious. 'What made you change your mind?'
'You were throwing pinecones at my door.' I laughed at how ridiculous it sounded. 'I should be irritated at you, but it was kind of cute.

Michelle Madow

#55. I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk.

Gloria Steinem

#56. When all one person do is complain, people don't want to talk or listen to them.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#57. I've cried a hundred times at The Notebook. My wife cries and that makes me cry, and she makes me promise we're going to die in bed together. I'm like: "That's weird, I don't want to talk about that."

Channing Tatum

#58. I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference

Mark Victor Hansen

#59. I thought something bad might have happened to him. It's nice to know he just doesn't want to talk to me.

Sylvain Neuvel

#60. If you want to talk to me after the show, I'd be surprised.

Mitch Hedberg

#61. If you want to talk, it's okay with me. I sit and relax.

Gael Monfils

#62. I'm the exact same person I was before (cancer). I'm still shallow, I still love clothes, I still want to talk fashion, I still want to gossip, so lay it on me.

Giuliana Rancic

#63. There seems to be for a long time now a range of issues that the Australian people want to talk about, but for some reason politicians of various shapes and stripes have decided they don't want to talk about.

Cory Bernardi

#64. Doesn't anybody ever want to talk about anything else besides 'Star Trek?' There were 79 episodes of the series; there were 55 different writers. I was only one of them.

David Gerrold

#65. I think what's wrong with too many people is they're too reserved. They're miserable, but they don't want to talk about it.

Brittany Howard

#66. Trying to tart the rock business up a bit is getting nearer to what the kids themselves are like, because what I find, if you want to talk in the terms of rock, a lot depends on sensationalism and the kids are a lot more sensational than the stars themselves.

David Bowie

#67. I want to talk about the internet, the impact it is having on the innocence of our children, how online pornography is corroding childhood and how, in the darkest corners of the internet, there are things going on that are a direct danger to our children, and that must be stamped out.

David Cameron

#68. No matter where I travel in the state, people want to talk about education.

James Lankford

#69. It's become this really odd thing where even some of the folks who build the things that we wear for entertainment are contacted by DARPA-esque companies who are saying, "Yeah, we're really doing that, and we want to talk to you."

Robert Downey Jr.

#70. My films are misinterpreted all the time. I don't mind that. Everybody's films are misinterpreted. But there's no malice or stupidity in the people that misinterpret them. You know what you do, but someone else sees it, and they want to talk about it or write about it, and so they misinterpret them.

Woody Allen

#71. If you really want to talk to the big boss now, make sure you leave your balls here with me, for he likes no balls on people he is talking to.

Pawan Mishra

#72. Well I don't want to talk about myself, that's so rude and egotistical.

Christine Lavin

#73. Can I be cocky for a second? If I hit a home run 80 percent of the times, and you want to talk about the 20 times I miss swinging the bat, I'm okay with that.

Jon Taffer

#74. I think it's a little presumptuous on his part to think that I would want to talk to him anyway. I mean, sure, I went home with him, probably slept with him, ate breakfast with him, and wore his clothes to work the next day. None of this I see as necessarily flirtatious on my part.

Josh Kilmer-Purcell

#75. As a wheelchair user, you can't move about freely. That's the only thing that bothers me a little. When I'm in the Euro Group in Brussels, colleagues who want to talk to me have to come to me. But I hope they know that this has nothing to do with arrogance.

Wolfgang Schauble

#76. I don't want to talk about genies in bottles anymore.

Christina Aguilera

#77. Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do, not what stops them doing it.

Salman Rushdie

#78. History does show that nothing means a hell of a lot more than nothing when teenagers talk. In this case, Robby knew it meant that I did not want to talk about it, so he left me alone.
Robby Brees was such a good friend.

Andrew Smith

#79. There's 3 types of fans. There's the ones that scream, the ones that want to talk to you and the ones that don't speak at all.

Zayn Malik

#80. I think you have to be respectful to the people who want to talk to you.

Bryce Harper

#81. The most attention I get is in a book store or video shop when I go to the foreign film section. Sometimes that can be fun, but usually those women want to talk about philosophy or something very dense. It's not like they're tearing off my shirt, you know.

Tobey Maguire

#82. Well, I don't want to talk too much about my children, but a friend of one of my children, something really terrible happened to her. I just felt like I had to speak about growing up again, because I felt that there's no way I can talk about difficulties of life. I had to talk about possibilities.

Lukas Moodysson

#83. I don't know anybody who said, 'I love that teacher, he or she gave a really good homework set,' or 'Boy, that was the best class I ever took because those exams were awesome.' That's not what people want to talk about. It's not what influences people in one profession or another.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#84. I, had an excellent instructor. One that you currently have locked up. If you want to talk about skills going to waste, then go look in your own jail.

Richelle Mead

#85. I don't want to talk about anybody else's movie, but I understand fan skepticism when you're like, "Oh yeah, a Godzilla movie." Which, by the way, our first movie was Batman Begins and was not dissimilar from questions and conversations from people about where the Batman franchise was, so I get it.

Thomas Tull

#86. He's trying to do info-tainment. He doesn't really want to talk about trans issues, he wants to sensationalize my life and not really talk about the work that I do and what the purpose of me writing this book was about.

Janet Mock

#87. I'm a conversationalist. I came out of a town with only 300 people. I didn't have anybody to talk to. I didn't want to talk about farming. So when I came out in the world, I started talking. Never stopped.

Jim "Dandy" Mangrum

#88. Our mother was so public - we always talked about her. But with her passing, all of a sudden we don't even want to talk about her.

Tom Smothers

#89. I get a lot of action scripts. I get low-budget vehicles that will end up right on the video shelf. I want to do movies that I want to talk about, that I'm proud of, but I also want to make a living.

Dean Cain

#90. Because I was extremely uncomfortable talking about sex with him at all and particularly in such a graphic way, I told him that I did not want to talk about these subjects.

Anita Hill

#91. Flying first class means sitting next to a better class of person I don't want to talk to.

Dov Davidoff

#92. Have you ever noticed that the less interesting something is, the longer people want to talk about it?

Nicholas Sparks

#93. I wish I was a phone machine. I wish if I saw somebody on the street I didn't want to talk to I could just go, "Excuse me, I'm not here right now, If you just leave a message, I can walk away."

Jerry Seinfeld

#94. I don't want to talk about myself, that's for other people to say, so I'm not saying I was so talented.

Jon Lovitz

#95. If you want to talk to me, you'll have to put out that cigarette.

Jimmy Piersall

#96. I want to talk to the bullied kids of the world. Tell them to hang on, it will get better. Know that an 'Iron Chef,' actors, musicians, artists and all successful people have probably been bullied in their life. And the best part of your life is yet to come. Whatever it takes to live, do it!

Cat Cora

#97. I love animals, but I don't want to talk to them. I'd rather be able to talk to other people on other continents and understand them.

Tracy Morgan

#98. There is nothing more common than for people who want to talk about God to lose interest in the people they are talking to.

Eugene H. Peterson

#99. For Snapchat, the closer we can get to 'I want to talk to you' - that emotion of wanting to see you and then seeing you - the better and better our product and our view of the world will be.

Evan Spiegel

#100. People always want to talk about who I was, but I've always been singing, always been experimenting with pop music.

Nicki Minaj