A lot of actors, you can't get them to shut up. Instead of listening and watching, they're always telling you something.

Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening.

Right now I'm listening to a lot of different things but I listen to a lot of classical music. Eventually I would like to compose and perform classical.

I come by writing dialogue fairly naturally, I've got a chatty family; I'm a bit of a voyeur, and if I'm ever in a public place, I automatically find myself listening.

I think my first musical memory is actually listening to Billie Holiday. I think I must have been, like, 3 or 4 years old.

Letters have been found with my name on assassination lists.

The art of entrepreneurship and the science of Customer Development is not just getting out of the building and listening to prospective customers. It's understanding who to listen to and why.

In '96, I was in a very specific place with my own music - I was only listening to beats. You would come to my house, and I would just play beats all day.

I was actually in an iron lung for about a year, and then I was paralysed from the neck down for another year after that. So I spent a lotta time just lying down as a kid. And some of my earliest memories from then are of listening to the radio.

You're never going to get from the industry what you give to it. But it's worth it; you just have to be realistic.

I grew up listening to so much different pop and stuff other than just aggressive music.

The point here is that I enjoyed singing. I enjoyed the rhythm of it. I grew up listening to Louis Prima, who was also rhythmic.

Listening is an art.

I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.

When you're always onstage, you really have to focus on listening and reacting.

The most realistic blood I've seen is when Marlon Brando gets beat up in On The Waterfront.

A majority of American citizens are now becoming skeptical of the claim that our carbon footprints, resulting from our use of fossil fuels, are going to lead to climatic calamities. But governments are not yet listening to the citizens.

I'm an environmentalist; I recycle.

When it comes to '90s R&B, I grew up on a lot of Aaliyah and Destiny's Child, Missy Elliott, Usher, Jill Scott. Whatever my mom was playing in the house is what I was listening to.

The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren't listening.