Jesse Kellerman Quotes

I like talking. I didn't know at the time I would have to worry so much about my hair.

I don't know whether it's a fear of standing up, but I really love sitting at the table and blabbing. I learn so much that way, and I think I get free that way, free from inhibition and fears.

I grew up with my mom always talking to everyone everywhere, whether it was professionally or in a coffee shop. And my dad was the same way. So I love being able to talk to people, hear their stories and be inspired.

Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.

I don't completely understand why people in Aspen want to hear what I have to say.

I love talking to people and entertaining people.

I realize now that it's important that I share my story... Also, it'll be easy for me to do an interview, to interact with people.

I don't talk in front of people.

As I started getting better and I had to go places and meet new people, there were times where you just couldn't keep to yourself. You had to speak to people.

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 love interviewing people and getting them to talk about things they've never talk about.

I've always been really open onstage.

There are going to be people doing the talking and people who get talked about, choose, which one do you want to be?

I think I'm realizing I've always been able to move people, just getting people to talk.

People say strange things, the boy thought. Sometimes it's better to be with the sheep, who don't say anything. And better still to be alone with one's books. They tell their incredible stories at the time when you want to hear them. But when you're talking to people, they say some things that are so strange that you don't know how to continue the conversation.

We spend our time sending messages to each other, talking and trying to listen at the same time, exchanging information. This seems to be our most urgent biological function; it is what we do with our lives.

Once I can talk to people, I switch them over on my side.

I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person.

What happens when two people talk? That is really the basic question here, because, that's the basic context in which all persuasion takes place.

The desire to perform impedes conversation.

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.

Talk is a pure art. Its only limits are the patience of listeners who, when they get tired, can always pay for their coffee or change it with a friendly waiter and walk out.

Sometimes I think the human animal doesn't really need food or water to survive, only gossip.

Conversation is not a search after knowledge, but an endeavor at effect.

The fact that your voice, amplified to the degree where it reaches from one end of the country to the other, does not confer upon you greater wisdom than when your voice reached only from one end of the bar to the other.