Don Ameche Quotes

There's what people say, and there's what people mean, and I like to explore the difference between the two.

Write what he means, not what he says.

one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.

It's the intent, not the word, that makes something harsh.

I was once told by someone wise that writing is perilous as you cannot always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written.

It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke.

You know, two people can say exactly the same words, saying the same story, and it would mean something entirely different.

When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else.

I'm responsible for what I say, but I'm not responsible about how people interpret my situation.

The medium is the message.

Silence is a statement that is open to gross misinterpretation.

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.

You have to make decisions - you know what you think. That doesn't mean the audience are aware of your decisions or what you think - the lines you're saying may have ambiguity.

There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

I don't think you really can send an exact message, because any two viewers are so disparate, in terms of their backgrounds, their point of view, their histories, that there's no telling what that message might be.

I think it's important for people to always understand what is the context is in what is being said, because that obviously determines what folks are talking about.

The medium is not the message - the message is the message.

Tone is up for grabs in what we do - what's the tone of the scene.

It’s not what you say; it’s what people hear.

Words are slippery and thoughts are vicious.

The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.

Sometimes, when I do certain looks, I don't want the intention to be taken out of context or expressed in the wrong way.

I wrote my friend a letter using a highlighting pen. But he could not read it, he thought I was trying to show him certain parts of a piece of paper.

Yet it was very difficult to separate her interpretation, and keep it distinct from his meaning.