Indirect Speech Quotes

Women tend to double-speak - I'm definitely guilty of that.

I believe in talking behind peoples' backs. That way, they hear it more than once.

I would say L.A. is more polite than London - it's a very careful place. People talk a lot in code.

I find myself having these conversations where I go...You know, the guy, in that place. The guy in the place with the thing, you know. And it becomes this game of charades. And then finally, we realize that I mean the Pope.

Lots of English people say exactly the opposite of what they mean.

I'm always saying something that's just the edge of something more.

The Miz came in as a way to say exactly what I was feeling and not have any repercussions for it because it was a character I was playing.

The fact that the internet is so active; people can now speak to me indirectly.

Movies by Carlos Saura and others had ghosts, memories from the past, that they used to make a political point. Things you couldn't talk about openly, you could speak of through ghosts.

It’s not technically gossip if you start your sentence with “I’m really concerned about __________________ ,” (fill in the name of the person you’re not gossiping about).

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.

I could never be on stage on my own. But puppets can say things that humans can't say.

Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions. That which the droning world, chained to appearances, will not allow the realist to say in his own words, it will suffer him to say in proverbs without contradiction.

I feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don't want to say anything.