Some people seem to see a conversation as a competition to see who can talk the longest and the most often.
I got a film fairly quickly and felt like I was on a roll. I would walk into auditions sounding like Crocodile Dundee, thinking, 'This is going to be a novelty for them.' Then I realised that there are a million other Australians here, and I should just shut up.
Charles Blow's memoir 'Fire Shut Up in My Bones' was a breathtaking piece of writing.
I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.
I'm not as impatient as I used to be. I used to hit people if I didn't like what they were saying. Just lash out. 'Bam - shut up! Hahahah!' I was terrible.
If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.
I find it preferable not to have public opinions about anything. It's good for me to shut up.
I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't.
My scripts are possibly too talkative. Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, 'Oh, for God's sake, shut up.'
That really is my trademark. Day to day, week in, week out. If something happens and the crowd roars, I shut up.
Telling writers to shut up is a sure way to keep them talking.
I think I've always had a certain amount of skepticism of this whole 'shut up and smile' theory. I haven't ever swallowed that pill so easily, although I tried.
If I was just to shut up, I wouldn't be a true artist.
