Gad Elmaleh Quotes

I influence anybody who is able to get through the chaos of my first impression.

The real intimidating stuff is the scene where you show up for the first day. You kind of square off, and that is where you look each other in the eye.

When I met my wife Vicky's family, I had to go out of my way to convince them, to show them, that I wasn't anything like their idea of a musician.

I think it's a really big deal to be able to meet people outside the context of something like a conference room or someplace where everything feels like it's formal talk.

'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.

Which, the first meeting with anybody is, you know, everybody is on their best behavior. It's only after you get to know them for a while that you figure out.

Let one persuade many, and he becomes confirmed and convinced, and cares for no better evidence.

We convince by our presence.

The most effective tool I have to work with artists I admire is to point to other artists that I admire and show that I've worked with them many, many times. It's not because I have option deals; it's because they want to keep working with us.

A lot of times, when I interact with someone for the first time, I don't want to see the presentation.

People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.

In any field, people want to work with those who they know and trust. It's the same in the Hindi film industry.

Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.

Breaking the ice in the pitcher seems to be a feature of the early lives of all great men.

If a vacuum cleaner salesman rings your front door, he will be selling HIMSELF first. The vacuum cleaner is secondary.

Developing a personal connection with anyone you're trying to do a big deal with is really important.

He who fails to please in his salutation and address is at once rejected, and never obtains an opportunity of showing his latest excellences or essential qualities.

I want to give the evidence in a way that is convincing, but I don't want to cheat.

A touch of truth makes a lie worth believing.

A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

To please people is a great step towards persuading them.

It's not who you know, it's who you blow. I don't have a hole in my jeans for nothing.

I try to build relationships with the actors, at least to some degree beforehand, whether it's phone calls because I'm from Seattle or all of us meeting in person at some point, which is ideal if at all possible before we get on set together.

The best way to make friends with an audience is to make them laugh. You don't get people to laugh unless they surrender - surrender their defenses, their hostilities. And once you make an audience laugh, they're with you. And they listen to you if you've got something to say. I have a theory that if you can make them laugh, they're your friends.