Richard Steele Quotes

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 think, especially in our business we meet a lot of people, and sometimes you spend so much time being nice to strangers, and so, you know, keeping a clear head and just being nice to each other. And that's all the advice I can give.

I know I probably offend some people. I have been talking a little too much so I'm trying not to talk as much.

Most of the time, we make discoveries about how difficult people are at the moment when the difficulties have actually hurt us; therefore, we are not likely to be forgiving or sympathetic.

I've always thought I'd been pretty good with people, and I basically have spent a conflict-free life, you know?

You find a lot out about people when they're blowing up, as we say, gasping for air, and if they can still hold conversations and be polite.

I'll admit that I'm self-centered - all of us are - but I can also be external and giving and listening and empathetic and all that sort of stuff.

I'm at my best when I'm talking about relationships, talking about women, talking about situations and stories.

Sometimes I feel a bit socially disconnected in terms of being a little bit gullible about how people interrelate emotionally.

More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.

To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve.

Opinion! If every one had so little tact as to give their true opinion when it was asked this would be a miserable world.

A great mind will neither give an affront nor bear it.

How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It is next worst to receiving one

I act like a jerk sometimes.

Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love. This is something else I've discovered for myself very recently. I present it to you as a hypothesis: Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis. And I say that the mind absorbed in and involved in itself as a self-centered end, to the exclusion of human relationships, can only lead to violence and pain.

In a conversation, keep in mind that you're more interested in what you have to say than anyone else is.

Don't give pain to others.

I was a self-centered bore. I was masochistic, and only thought I was happy. When I woke up and said, "there must be something wrong with me", I grew up. Because I never understood myself, how could I hope to understand anyone else? That's why I can truly say that now I can give a woman love for the first time in my life, because I can understand her.

What would the world be like if people said whatever they were thinking, all the time, whenever it came to them? How long would a blind date last? About 13 seconds, I think. Oh, sorry, your rear end is too big. That's ok, your breath stinks anyway. See you later.

I still find it tough to be around girls because I always say the wrong thing. If a friend asks me if I look fat in something, I'll be honest and say 'Yeah' when she does.

I think that actors are terrible communicators as people by and large. I think our tendency is to kind of be self-centered and tune people out and just kind of get really me-focused, so I think communication for actors is a big challenge actually.

The ability to understand the cause of your own suffering gives you the ability to understand ours.

I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.

It is just as much an offense to take offense as it is to give offense.