Frankie Boyle Quotes

I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.

When you're frustrated with people, when they've made you angry, it just may be because you haven't given them enough time.

You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.

For me, storytelling is all about how we learn about each other. I'm so curious about people, what makes them tick, why they are who they are, and how we all relate to each other, despite the fact that we may not think that we do.

A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view.

I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever.

If I hadn't read all of Jane Austen and DH Lawrence, Tolstoy and Proust, as well as the more fun stuff, I wouldn't know how to break bad news, how to sympathise, how to be a friend or a lover, because I wouldn't have any idea what was going on in anybody else's mind.

Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.

What we perceive things to be when they come out of our mouth is not what the listener perceives it to be. They think it differently. They're not your blood. They're not your mind. You get in an argument.

I'm just incredibly interested in people.

Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.

Mistrust and misunderstanding are the major obstacles for people getting together .

There is one particular argument that I call our 'ancient war.' If it could be summed up in one phrase, it would be, 'You don't get it. You don't understand what it's like to be me living with you.' There is such truth in that statement. None of us can really appreciate what it is like to be the other person, what that point of view feels like.

I can't get on girls' wavelengths at all. I think we are completely different. I don't know, maybe that's the way it should be. If we could all get along occasionally though, that would be nice.

I always say you can only change things from within. It's all about energy. If it's positive, then - even, like, somebody you don't like, saying hello to them one day just switches the conversation, and instead of being angry, I think it's good.

For most of your career, what you're trying to do is to step into other people's shoes.

People don't listen to each other anymore, and I think that's why people get offended or their feelings get hurt: because you're not actually listening to the person that's giving you signals they're upset.

People are starting to understand the other side's perspective and that's where empathy can sort of begin - once you quit judging other people but just understand where they're coming from.

Really, it's not people who don't understand us who drive us nuts—it's when those who shouldn't, do.

While people judge others from their own moral standpoint, the wise person looks also at the point of view of another.

I am truly passionate and concerned about the lack of empathy that people show towards one another.

We do not find happiness by being assertive. We don't find happiness by running over people because we see what we want and they are in the way of that happiness so we either abandon them or we smash them. The Scriptures don't teach us to be assertive. The Scriptures teach us — and this is remarkable — the Scriptures teach us to be submissive. This is not a popular idea.

A man can't be in the space where there is feminine rage and bitterness. He doesn't know how to navigate it.

I don't hate people - not remotely other than they make you crazy in traffic, but as I get older I kind of see more and more why people do what they do.

We should not let our response to the people who disagree with us be dictated by what they say about us or even how they treat people we care for. There has to be a chance that we can find love.