Listening quotes

“Just because I'm looking at you when you talk, don't think I'm listening - or even interested.”
Maggie Smith - Muriel Donnelly

“- Ben Shepard: Thank you for talking to me.
- Sharon Solarz: Thank you for listening.”
Shia LaBeouf - Ben Shepard
Susan Sarandon - Shia LaBeouf

“- Billy Kwan: You might learn something.
- Guy Hamilton: I doubt it. The British don't let much slip.
- Billy Kwan: Oh, yes they do. They're just more subtle. You ought to listen harder.”
Linda Hunt - Billy Kwan
Mel Gibson - Guy Hamilton

“- Jack: Algy, you're always talking nonsense.
- Algy: It's better than listening to it.”
Colin Firth - Jack
Rupert Everett - Algy

“We need to learn to observe and listen to people more to get to know them.”
Corey Johnson

“Sorry, I couldn't hear you. Maybe it was the music, or I dunno, maybe it was the bullshit.”
Ellen Page - Hayley Stark

“Whatever you wanna tell me, whatever you think might scare me, won't... and I will listen... I will be a good listener to you if that's what you want... and you know, you know... I won't judge you... I can do that sometimes, I know, but I won't... I can... listen to you and you shouldn't be scared of scaring me off or anything that you might...” (continue)(continue reading)

John C. Reilly - Officer Jim Kurring

“Somebody told me she was listening to my show when it happened. I mean, my voice was probably the last thing she heard, can you imagine?”

Tara Reid - Sasha Thomas

- Greg Focker: Who would've thought it wasn't really about a dragon, huh?
- Jack Byrnes: What do you mean?
- Greg Focker: You know, the whole drug thing?
- Jack Byrnes: No, I don't know. Why don't you tell me?
- Greg Focker: Some people think that to "Puff the Magic Dragon" means to... they're really, uh... to smoke... to smoke... a marijuana... (continue)(continue reading)

Ben Stiller - Greg Focker
Robert De Niro - Jack Byrnes

“Women are a labyrinth, my friend. Can I be frank? I don't think you listen to her. I think you tell her what she wants to hear. She wants you to thirst for knowledge about who she is, all the complicated splendor that is women.”
Jim Carrey - The Cable Guy

“- Meneer Chrome: Thea! Please! Why won't you listen to me?
- Thea: Because you're saying nothing. Whisper your sweet nothings to my mother. She will hear you. I can't. Good-bye, Mr. Chrome, whoever you are.”
Ewan McGregor - Meneer Chrome
Carmen Chaplin - Thea

“- Frank Wagstaff: You're talking to the wrong team.
- Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff: I know I am, but our team wouldn't listen to me!”

Zeppo Marx - Frank Wagstaff
Groucho Marx - Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff

“Option A: You talk, we listen, no pain. Option B: You don't talk, I remove your thumbs with my pliers, it will hurt. Option C: I like to vary the details a bit but the punchline is... you die.”
Brad Pitt - John Smith

- Sidney Deane: Billy, I have four words for you: "Listen to the Woman".
- Billy Hoyle: What the hell does that mean, "Listen to the woman"? I tried to listen to the woman and you're the one who talked me out of it.
- Sidney Deane: Wait a minute. I didn't talk you out of anything. I presented you with an option and you took it.
Wesley Snipes - Sidney Deane
Woody Harrelson - Billy Hoyle

“I like to keep my ears open. It's amazing what you can learn listening to chatter.”
Steve Carrell - Maxwell Smart

“I keep telling you, you listen to me more, you live longer!”

Jonathan Ke Quan - Short Round

“- Ava Gardner: You listened to my phone calls?
- Howard Hughes: No! No! No! Honey I would never do that! I'd never do that! I... I just read the transcripts, that's all.”
Kate Beckinsale - Ava Gardner
Leonardo DiCaprio - Howard Hughes

“Everybody knows women are fragile. I mean, they're all emotions, no logic, there's nothing going on upstairs. Every once in a while, they say something that's a little inconvenient, they just go fucking nuts. Pardon my French. If we're insane, nobody has to listen to us.”
Amy Ryan - Carol Dexter

“We have two ears, but only one mouth; so a good leader will listen twice as much as he shouts.”
Assumpta Serna - Teresa

“- H.G. Wells: Amy, wait, listen to me!
- Amy Robbins: I have listened, and a bigger crock of shit I've never heard!”
Malcom McDowell - H.G. Wells
Mary Steenburgen - Amy Robbins

“Your friend has seen, and she has heard. Now she will not talk.”

Roshan Seth - Chattar Lal

“- Danny Muldoon: You came home late. You were arguing and I woke up. I was scared. I didn't know what was going on, so I listened in at the door.
- Rose Muldoon: A little spy.
- Danny Muldoon: Come on, I was only 12.
- Rose Muldoon: Spy!”

John Candy - Danny Muldoon
Maureen O'Hara - Rose Muldoon

“If I wanna hear you talk, I'll shove my arm up your ass and work your mouth like a puppet!”
Samuel L. Jackson - P.K. Highsmith

“Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.”

Béla Lugosi - Dracula

“- Collins: Doctor Bryant, I don't think you're listening to me.
- Dr. Frank Bryant: Mr Collins, I don't think you're saying anything to me.
- Collins: Doctor, are you drunk?
- Dr. Frank Bryant: Drunk? Of course I'm drunk. You don't really expect me to teach this when I'm sober.”
Kim Fortune - Collins
Sir Michael Caine - Dr. Frank Bryant