Rachael Leigh Quotes

Yeah, I shoot my mouth off. There's a huge difference between writing and thinking.

Sometimes, I just, I say various things.

The risks of speaking extemporaneously are apparent the first time you wing it and promptly put your foot in your mouth.

A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.

Oh, I constantly say things that I regret. I mortify myself constantly. But that's just part of the deal. I'm not really sure what's going to come out of my mouth.

I think my mouth just opens and I spontaneously say things that occur to me.

People say the most stupid things on the spur of the moment that they then have to retract.

I'm known among my friends for saying things I probably shouldn't sometimes, but I have to get things out in the air.

Things people say strike me as amusing, and I am prone to saying out loud what everybody's thinking.

My trouble is I talk first and think later.

I don't like getting myself in hot water. But suddenly I find that every minute I have to stop and think about what I'm saying. I can see what's going to happen. I'm going to have to stop giving interviews because I'm always saying the wrong thing. I don't want that to happen.

Nobody talks much that doesn't say unwise things,--things he did not mean to say; as no person plays much without striking a false note sometimes.

Your tongue runs before your wit.

My mouth is sore from continually extracting my foot from it.

Sometimes, my mouth can get the better of me.

One of my faults is a big mouth. I tend to say the wrong thing without meaning to.

You gave yourself away, word by word, every time you opened your trap to speak.

I say a lot of things - millions of words a day - so if I misspoke, that was just a misstatement.

We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.

I'm just looking for authentic engagement of some kind, and usually, after an hour or more, you get that. Some people talk at you. Some people just want to answer questions, but a lot of times, all of a sudden you drift away, and you don't remember you're on the mic, and you're in something real.

I say what's in my head, and I'm on honest ground. That is worth so much, and I think it does make my job, as a writer, easier. It makes it possible for me to give people stuff that they like.

Be careful what you say. You can say something hurtful in ten seconds, but ten years later, the wounds are still there.

Only grown-ups think that the things children say come out of nowhere. We know they come from the deepest parts of ourselves.

When you see people say crazy things on our show, they mean this stuff,and that's easy to forget: They're not joking.

Be careful about gossiping because loose lips really do sink ships. Now that I'm in the broadcast business, and people talk about me, I know what it feels like to be the victim of gossip.