Emily Deschanel Quotes

The myth of writer as, like, Asperger-style misanthrope, or, like, the Jack Nicholson, 'As Good As It Gets' - it just doesn't work, because writers, in order to write good characters, need to understand people. You need to understand your audience. You need to have so much empathy you could almost encourage empathy in others.

Indeed, I am repeatedly astonished by the number of really good writers who understand human beings so well on paper but don't know how to deal with them in real life.

I would have a poet able bodied, fond of talking, a reader of the newspapers, capable of pity and laughter, informed in economics, appreciative of women, involved in personal relationships, actively interested in politics, susceptible to physical impressions.

In my personal life, I would just feel like, I will always be cool with everyone.

Working with different people anyway is like life and meeting different people... as long as you can be empathetic, you can take a bit of them on and see what you can do to help their process. That said, my relationship with Woody Allen was trying to hang on his every word so that I could tell everybody what he said afterwards. But certainly, he was a very good example of somebody who you didn't hear talk above a very low volume for the entire time he was on-set.

Life is a matter of dealing with other people, in little matters and cataclysmic ones, and that means a series of conversations.

I spend most of my life just listening to people.

Understanding people certainly impacts your ability to communicate with others.

My fundamental belief is, if you’re looking at your phone more than into someone’s eyes, that’s a problem.

I've never been interested in things that sparkle and shine; I'm more interested in people.

I listen to the audience and try and bounce with them. All audiences are different. But they are all homo sapiens.

I'm definitely a people person. I love socializing and being around people and having a good conversation.

I am very much a people person.

My job is about playing people. And I think once you lose touch with people, what do you play?

I never saw myself as being ambitious, I saw myself as being in love with the profession. I'm a people person. I love to get to know different kinds of people.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

The ABC's are attitude, behavior and communication skills.

How do you cut off the human side and just maintain being professional? So what I've done is I've incorporated that with Kojak - there's times when he allows the human condition, the human experience, to integrate into him as a professional.

Part of being out there, campaigning, talking to people, is being able to read body language.

A lot of things I don't do well; I don't do warm and fuzzy well.

He loves people, but even more than that he loves to talk to people.

I think I've got a good feel. A feel for... being able to walk with different people. Or for being able to look at people and think, 'Yeah, I might know what they want to wear.'

One of the illusions that we live by is that we can really know anybody else, and we're often surprised by traits in people that we thought we knew very well. The struggle to overcome loneliness, which is sort of our universal burden, leads us to leap to conclusions about who other people are.

I'm good at reading people. If I wasn't an actor, I would be a psychologist.

My agenda... is to learn about people.