Isiah Whitlock Jr. Quotes

Either you are extrovert or introvert, and so I am an introvert in that sense. I'm not a social person that wants to go to parties.

Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I mean some people have beautiful manners but there's no kind of agreed form of manners.

Sometimes I make it to parties and sometimes I don't. Social life is always something you can go back to.

I hang out with all the crew on set. It just makes it easier to work. You feel more comfortable around everyone.

It's hard to have fun with your friends with your bosses around.

Talk often, but never long; in that case, if you do not please, at least you are sure not to tire your hearers. Pay your own reckoning, but do not treat the whole company; this being one of the few cases in which people do not care to be treated, every one being fully convinced that he has wherewithal to pay.

I think that I love society as much as most, and am ready enough to fasten myself like a bloodsucker for the time to any full-blooded man that comes in my way. I am naturally no hermit, but might possibly sit out the sturdiest frequenter of the bar-room, if my business called me thither.

I swear I've never met a man who has your knack for lack of social grace. If you weren't naturally charming, someone would have stabbed you by now.

I really want the audience to place close attention to the movement, possibilities of movement, possibilities of trespassing boundaries and observe what's possible in different social settings, and different settings of class designation as well.

A good thing to do when one is sitting, eating, and resting is to have a conversation.

When you are not feeling particularly friendly but know you ought to be, the best thing you can do, very often, is to put on a friendly manner and behave as if you were a nicer person than you actually are. And in a few minutes, as we have all noticed, you will be really feeling friendlier than you were.

People who stare deserve the looks they get.

I am a stickler for good manners, and I believe that treating other people well is a lost art. In the workplace, at the dinner table, and walking down the street--we are confronted with choices on how to treat people nearly every waking moment. Over time these choices define who we are and whether we have a lot of friends and allies or none.

Stuyvesant chats with Kelly and Katz, The professor warms to the broker, And life is good in the brotherhood Of an air-conditioned smoker.

A gentleman does not appear to know more or to be more than those with whom he is thrown into company.

People give out compliments because it's polite.

It's very typical that when two people are having lunch, they put a phone on the table between them.

I guess they say that you can find out if you're an extravert or an introvert by how you recharge yourself and I guess I'm more of an introvert in that way because I like to be by myself to recharge, but I'm definitely a people person. I love socializing and being around people and having good conversations.

Sometimes I don't want to go out and socialize; I just want to watch my favorite shows and comedians. But then I have to remember that it is important to participate in life if you want to portray real life on screen.

One can say everything best over a meal.

One must not permit oneself excesses, except with persons whom one wishes soon to leave.

It's really hard to get any work done in my apartment when my bed is also in my apartment.

Americans are incredibly polite as long as they get what they want.

Good general-purpose manners nowadays may be said to consist in knowing how much you can get away with.

Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.