Jerry Seinfeld Quotes

A writer without a reader doesn't exist.

Whom we wish to talk to is as important as what we say.

For me, it's always been one of my pet peeves to keep people engaged and talking, and just always being interested in what I have going on. To keep the level of creativity always turned up to the max.

If you care about who I want to write about, I'll write about the people you want to read about.

I like talking; I like playing with the audience.

You don't want to be so far off the planet that you come out with something that doesn't make sense to anybody.

A kid is a guy I never wrote down to. He's interested in what I say if I make it interesting.

I always like to have some type of connection with the crowd.

If you want to shake a hand, if you want a story, I'll be more than happy to sit down with you and talk with you. It's what I love to do.

Engagement is always better then disengagement. If we don't talk, somebody else will.

Life is a conversation. Make it a good one.

I want to be a voice people listen to and feel good or sad or whatever.

In apartments and cottages, on the street and in the train... I listen... More and more, I turn into one large ear, always turning to another person.

I always felt it was necessary to keep up some kind of communication with other people.

Music is a communication. It's a two-way street. You need people to play to in order to make that connection complete. That's the way we look at it.

An answer to a question no one asked is a wasted answer.

Your job is to give people a reason to keep reading.

Emails get reactions. Phone calls start conversations.

No story lives unless someone wants to listen. So thank you, all of you.

An appreciative listener is always stimulating.

People love conversation, and movies are conversations, and an audience has to participate; it has to fill in some blanks.

A good listener truly wants to know the speaker.

Things are going so well. We’re volleying words back and forth. Everything she says, I have something I can say back. We’re sparking, and part of me just wants to sit back and watch. We’re clicking. Not because a part of me is fitting into a part of her. But because our words are clicking into each other to form sentences and our sentences are clicking into each other to form dialogue and our dialogue is clicking together to form this scene from this ongoing movie that’s as comfortable as it is unrehearsed.

For me, I want to get across the stage to the people. I want to point at you, thirty, forty rows back, and you know I'm pointing at you, and we're having a laugh and getting it together.

When we talked, I talked about me, you talked about you, when we should have talked about each other.