Samuel Goldwyn Jr. Quotes

I've had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don't send any messages in doing so.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

It's part of our nature. As much as I love (brother and guitarist Eddie), if you put us in a room with no one else for 15 minutes, we'd be at each other's throats.

I'm not good at confrontation. I know my strengths. I like company. And I am not a great arguer... I do find it much easier talking to people I like about things we both like.

We're quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn't work exponentially when we are together. Relationships are about eating humble pie.

Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.

I never remember my parents having an argument.

I want to try to make difficult people somehow relatable.

How do I make the son, daughter, wife of Paterno interesting? Then you just have to start seeing people.

People that don't talk are constipated. I'm sorry, but if you can't communicate, what do you have? You have nothing.

From the neighborhoods that we grew up in, we had to learn how to deal with people. How to keep certain people at a distance, how to cut people off completely.

Whenever I'm talking about relationships, it's always at least three things. It's my relationship with myself, my relationship with God or an idea, and then usually somebody, a real person. I try to operate on all three levels at the same time, and it's difficult, but I never want to have a break-up song or something like that.

The issue you have with two competitive guys being brought up the same way is that you don't have one person who goes out of his way to make a relationship.

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

It's all realistic, if you get a group of ladies and you stick them together almost every day for three, four months you're going to have some catfights.

You have to know how to co-operate with other people if you want to stay alive and raise children. And to do that, you need to know something about them. You need to know who loves whom, who hates whom, who is sleeping with whom. Who is honest, who is a cheat.

Every relationship you have, you're learning and growing and taking something from that.

I don't have problems with people, because if I do, I address it.

I've always had to force myself to make friends and speak to people. My parents were quiet, and it took me a while to get used to the fact that people talk about their feelings, their problems.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.

And I try to be as diplomatic as I can, but it always ends up being a psychodrama up there on stage.

As with real reading, the ability to comprehend subtlety and complexity comes only with time and a lot of experience. If you don't adequately acquire those skills, moving out into the real world of real people can actually become quite scary.

I find that communication as an actor and person is an important part of who I am. And I'm really drawn into the psychology of those dynamics.

Nowadays, if you are afraid of confrontation, you are not going to do very well.

I thought I had a talent for alienating people, but I have no idea what it is that doesn't go over.