Samantha Bee Quotes

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

The effectiveness of a group of people is not determined by their IQ but by how well they communicate.

It's a difficult question of relations between people.

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

It's funny that through learning how to physically fight, you also learn how to navigate really complicated and hard conversations with people.

I think I am a pretty good at understanding each character of each person I meet.

Because I am fascinated by people and what makes them behave the way they do. I think it is one of the most fascinating things in the world.

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.

All my life I have dealt with objective matters; hence I lack both the natural aptitude and the experience to deal properly with people and to carry out official functions.

The best way to know people is to work with them.

As for 'drawing you out,' please believe I don't do such things deliberately, with an object -- It's only that I am, as a rule, far more interested in people than they are in me -- But it makes me a nuisance, I know: only an innocent nuisance.

In school math and science were my favorite subjects, but I probably in my true self I'm more of a people person. At the same time, I don't think that's how I recharge.

I spend most of my life just listening to people.

I find people confusing.

My personality does well with people who are deemed difficult. I don't know why it does but I just seem to get along with them. The more difficult the better.

Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.

Understanding people certainly impacts your ability to communicate with others.

The worst of having so much tact was that you never quite knew whether other people were acting naturally or being tactful too. [The human element]

Women who make men talk better than they are accustomed to are always popular.

I find it very hard to believe that people would prefer an awkward picture with me than a normal conversation.

People frequently bore me, sometimes amuse me, most often irritate me, but rarely intrigue me.

What's needed in this case is conscious and serious practice in hearing, and using, and being used by, other people's voices.

Crocker's Rules didn't give you the right to say anything offensive, but other people could say potentially offensive things to you, and it was your responsibility not to be offended. This was surprisingly hard to explain to people; many people would read the careful explanation and hear, "Crocker's Rules mean you can say offensive things to other people."

I think the reason that a lot of people have to have a lot of people around is just about being smart and knowing what you want to talk about.

My style as a human being is to indulge people who need to escape, yet I insist on confronting them as a playwright. It's quite embarrassing, it's quite unpleasant, it's quite awkward.