Rebecca MacKinnon Quotes

People take things too personally - I don't. If someone says something about me, I let it go. But unfortunately, everyone isn't like that. So I'm trying to be more diplomatic - but people always want a headline from me!

I think over time I've learned to stop being a screamer and get interactive; otherwise, you get killed in Hollywood. I stopped being a screamer shortly after 'Blade Runner,' kicking doors and things like that, because I wasn't actually getting anywhere.

From the neighborhoods that we grew up in, we had to learn how to deal with people. How to keep certain people at a distance, how to cut people off completely.

I don't like upsetting people.

I don't have problems with people, because if I do, I address it.

And I try to be as diplomatic as I can, but it always ends up being a psychodrama up there on stage.

Nowadays, if you are afraid of confrontation, you are not going to do very well.

I'm not a screamer. I'm confrontational, but I don't think that translates into anger.

Some people, you have to grit your teeth in order to stay in the same room as them, but you get on and ask the questions you assume most of the people watching want to ask.

You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.

Why are we talking about talking? Why negotiating about negotiating? It's very simple. If you want to get to peace, put all your preconditions on the side, sit down opposite a table, not in a studio, by the way.

So many bad things happen in this world because people don't know how to express things.

It's kinda cool seeing people having real fights with people they really know.

When I have an argument with someone, even with someone I am not very close with, I can't sleep at night thinking about it. It's terrible. But I still manage speak out frankly because I have also been gifted with the ability to read people. I can sense when they start to get irritated with me, and then, I shift.

I don't know a single person in life that doesn't have conflict.

The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals.

I try not to deal with people's hostility, though I must if they have something I need from them, as the professors did at Columbia or my landlord did.

I can fight, but that's the only thing I can do. When it comes to anything other than fighting or talking, I'm not very good.

I want to try to make difficult people somehow relatable.

I really don't like confrontations. One of the reasons I'm retiring is that I'm tired of hurting people's feelings.

I've always thought I'd been pretty good with people, and I basically have spent a conflict-free life, you know?

If other people have problems with my competitions, then there's nothing I can do.

I'm bad on passive aggression. I know that.

I don't have no personal problems with nobody.

Normally when you meet a person you don't like, you might have words with them, but then you walk away. When you're filming a show, you can't walk away.