Marcela Valladolid Quotes

I like to connect with people through my work. That's my favorite way - meetings of the minds, fans at a show. Those are nice mediated ways of hanging out.

People think it's not necessary to talk to another human being, and that's the part of it that I don't like. Some people will go up and want to talk to you about the music, which is cool; they're enthusiastic about the songs and know stuff about it, or, 'I really like your music. Nice to meet you.'

I remind myself that I'm always more satisfied by human interaction than by a digital connection.

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

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

I think that talking about the personal specificity, personal details, is how you get the big, big audiences - by talking about your relationships or your personal tragedies. If you reach out with that energy, you'll touch people.

The Internet is a very intimate entertainment experience. I'm in my own apartment talking to people, and I want them to feel like they're with me in my apartment. So if I'm listening to them and taking ideas from them and being honest with how I'm feeling, it resonates even more that we're having a real, actual conversation.

The essence of conversation is not which media format we choose to talk to each other with, so we don't differentiate between snaps and chats. It's just someone wanting to talk to you.

Social does not just equal Facebook. Social is how people interact anywhere.

Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.

I like to talk to people and, obviously, to photograph them.

The first thing that I do when I come out every night is to look at the faces in front of me, very individually.

You know, it's recently come into focus for me why I want to be an actor: It's because of the connection I feel to people.

Television itself is an intimate medium. It's in your house. You're visiting with these people... Not everybody's going to like it, just like not everybody likes everybody on the playground. I mean, that's life - especially if your job is to just go out there and be yourself.

The brain was not built to walk into a bar, where you know nobody, and start a conversation. That's not the way humanity has courted.

It takes a lot to get people talking in airplanes. But once they start talking, you just can't shut them up.

I was immediately smitten with an attraction to this culture, not in the sense of high culture but of the basic way people behaved towards one another.

I like live audiences, with real people - virtual reality is no substitute.

Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?

Television has always been our No. 1 competition. But I know firsthand that you can create an experience you can't get on television. I also know that the social experience has an appeal.

It's good-bye to public life in the way that you try to communicate with an audience playfully, like we're friends, beyond the work you are actually paid for.

I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.

Now, I'm a pretty fast and avid reader. But you can't learn the same things in a book or on the Internet that you can in a personal talk with somebody.

This joyfulness that I felt when I sang, and this need to communicate with people, these are my two strongest points. I've always been a people person. I love people; I like to be with people, and when I got on stage, I was home free.

People are doing too much e-mail. The basic thing is eyeball-to-eyeball. Business relationships are made to be personal. The more people get away from it, the more they are going to lose that personal relationship. That's what I learned - to develop personal relationships with people.