Scott Rudin Quotes

If you don't speak Spanish, then don't accuse me of insulting you in that language, let alone insulting you ten times.

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.

I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor - a very Canadian sense of humor and I am only learning now stupidly that you can't read tongue. When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesn't read that way.

I think I'm being friendly with someone and I'll sit in their lap. They think I'm flirting with them.

As a writer I've learned certain lessons. One of them is to be careful about how you put a view, and to bear in mind how easily and readily you'll be misinterpreted.

Now, admittedly, Twitter can be entertaining on occasion, as it turns out that 140 characters offers a great chance to be misunderstood - and an even greater chance one will expose his inner troglodyte.

The problem I have with making an intelligent statement is that some people then think it's not an isolated occurrence.

When I first came to Hollywood I was told to go out with an agent because it was good for my career. So I went to a party with him because it was good for my 'career.' Well, he thought the whole thing was a big date. Needless to say, I was very upset.

I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted.

How easy it is to say the wrong thing! How easy it is not to recognize one has said the wrong thing!

I stopped doing interviews for a long time because the words were mine, but they were in the wrong order. Context is a very important thing - a lot of the things I say aren't serious, and so to remove the laughter does me no favours.

My advice gets misconstrued as being mean.

I always like how a seemingly benign activity that was meant to be fun can turn into drama.

I feel like everything with me gets blown out of proportion. I think it's because I'm so quiet about things that people just run with anything they hear.

Sometimes the wrong thing is said or things don't come out the way they were intended.

Sometimes our passion will motivate us to say things that can easily be misunderstood.

This morning my dad called me up and said, 'So, tonight's your last show, huh.' And I said, 'No, Dad, that's someone else.'

You will allow that one's curiosity must be aroused when one learns that a lady is prepared to elope to escape from advances one had not the least intention of making!

I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this.

A mutual misunderstanding.

I made you take time to look at what I saw and when you took time to really notice my flower, you hung all your associations with flowers on my flower and you write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see—and I don't.

It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.

The truth is that everything causes everything else. We do not speak therefore of one thing causing another. There are no secrets. It's just we thought they said dead when they said bread.

The disconnect lasted too long. I think people got the idea I was sullen and couldn't communicate, which wasn't true.

Grace misunderstood will always lead to jealousy.