Itzhak Perlman Quotes

Really, it's not people who don't understand us who drive us nuts—it's when those who shouldn't, do.

I once was interviewed and got so exasperated that I said, 'What do you want, a shopping list?' They kept asking, 'What's in this picture?'

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

When people are self-entitled for no reason, just with anything, that bothers me. It's like waiting for someone to cross the road, and they walk slower because they know you're waiting. I like all the credit due in the places that it's supposed to be due.

I have so many things that I say to my kids, I just drive them crazy.

If someone says they're going to ring me at 10 o'clock and it's 10 past and they haven't rung, I'm irritated.

If two people live together, one has to be patient, and typically, the other one is very annoying.

Boundaries? What are those?

I put a lot of effort into not upsetting people and trying to do things the right way, so I feel I can reserve the right to complain when I feel let down by others.

Nothing annoys me more than uninformed people not considering the effects of what they say.

A lot of times, going into the interview, you have an idea of maybe what you want to talk about. And the people you are interviewing have an idea of what they want to talk about.

If you're coming to do an interview with me, you should know about me. It's not that it's 'cos I'm Wizkid; I'd even hate it if you were coming to interview my friend and asked him the same question. You're here for an interview, so you should know who you're doing the interview with.

And please don't call me that." I didn't call you 'that', I called you George Washington.

The truth is people are very nice. The other truth is, it's very annoying to be constantly interrupted. I don't love myself enough to want to share myself with everybody.

I do get a little pissed at people who write me and want me to do things, and spell my name wrong.

It's very hard not to be condescending when you're explaining something to an idiot.

I tried to tell you that it's not Spade in there." "You could have tried harder. I absolutely never needed to know that Ian was pierced down there.

I sometimes get short-tempered in a public situation because I think, Oh God, I can't go back over that again. I can't put that into a two-word answer. I can't. Wherever I go, people say, "Can I ask you a quick question?" It's always, "a quick question." Well, my answers are slow.

Tiny, the next time that you try to set me up with a girl with a secret boyfriend can you at least INFORM me that she has a secret boyfriend? Also, if you don't call me back within five minutes, I'm going to assume you found a way back to Evanston. Furthermore, you are an asshat. That is all.

There's actually a lot of bullshit in my Google search. They killed me in one of them! I died in one of my Google searches.

I just hate stupid people. They should have to wear signs that say 'I'm Stupid.' That way you wouldn't rely on them, and you wouldn't ask them for nothing.

I'm not usually an eavesdropper,but i dare you to try not listening if you hear your best friend talking about you to an adult.

I really don't like conference calls to be honest. It's always something that bloody happens with a conference call - universally never works out.

It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs.

I'm a mumbler. If I'm walking with a friend, and I say something, he says, "What?" So I say it again, and he says, "What?" Really, it's just some insignificant stuff I'm saying, but now I'm yelling, "That tree is far away!"