Listening quotes

“People want leadership, Mr. President, and in the absence of genuine leadership, they'll listen to anyone who steps up to the microphone.”
Michael J. Fox - Lewis Rothschild

“Active listening, I hate active listeners. I always feel like they're to busy pretending to be listening to hear what I'm saying.”
Laura Linney - Constance Harraway

“- Michael Green: I love her. And I tried everything, except really listening, really listening, and that's how I left her alone. I was so ashamed of that, and I couldn't even tell her. Maybe if I tell her she'd love me anyway.
- Alice Green: Or more. She would have loved you even more. I think you should tell all this stuff to your wife.”
Andy Garcia - Michael Green
Meg Ryan - Alice Green

“- Superman: Listen; what do you hear?
- Lois Lane: Nothing.
- Superman: I hear everything. You wrote that the world doesn't need a savior, but every day I hear people crying for one.”

Brandon Routh - Superman
Kate Bosworth - Lois Lane

“- Michelle Dubois: Listen very carefully, I shall say this only once.
- René: Well, in that case, could you please speak slowly?”
Kirsten Cooke - Michelle Dubois
Gorden Kaye - René Artois

“Your heart understood mine. In the depth of the fragrant night, I listened with ravished soul to your beloved voice. Your heart understood mine.”
Gabriel Byrne - Friedrich Bhaer

“Softly, deftly, music shall caress you. Hear it, feel it secretly possess you.”
Gerard Butler - The Phantom

“She gave me a bunch of crap about me not listening to her, or something. I don't know, I wasn't really paying attention.”
Jeff Daniels - Harry Dunne

“- Jason Alexander: Damn, it's quiet out here! I should've brought my radio.
- Lyric: No, it's not quiet. It's full of music. Just listen.”

Allen Payne - Jason Alexander
Jada Pinkett Smith - Lyric

“Listen. Can you hear it? The music. I can hear it everywhere. In the wind, in the air, in the light. It's all around us. All you have to do is open yourself up. All you have to do is listen.”
Freddie Highmore - August Rush

“- Anakin Skywalker: An angel. I've heard the deep space pilots talk about them. They live on the moons of Lego, I think. They're the most beautiful creatures in the universe.
- Queen Amidala: You're a funny little boy. How do you know so much?
- Anakin Skywalker: I listen to all the traders and star pilots who come through here. I'm a pilot, you...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jake Lloyd - Anakin Skywalker
Natalie Portman - Queen Amidala

“There's so much diversity of opinion out there, so ultimately you have to listen to it, put it aside, and make what you want to make.”
David Twohy

“Have the courage to listen. ”
Brad Pitt - Ladybug

“...if they can't understand ya, then they're not listening. And that's their problem.”
Ciarán Hinds - Pop

“The whole world is singing, clicking, grinding, whistling, and thumping... but we've stopped listening.”
Christopher W. Clark - Self

“All the problems of the world are caused by people who do not listen.”
Franco Zeffirelli

“I had lost my sight, but I got something back in return. My remaining four senses functioned with superhuman sharpness. But most amazing of all, my sense of sound gave off a kind of radar sense!”
Ben Affleck - Matt Murdock

“Listen. A slowly passing train is so romantic.”
Sandy Dennis - Mona

“If I wanted to listen to an asshole, I'd fart.”
Sid Haig - Captain Spaulding

“- Bernie Mermelstein: Don't you think you're kind of over reacting about a dumb letter? There's a lot of nut cases running around shootin' their mouths off.
- Mel Mermelstein: Yes. And sometimes people listen to them.”

Jason Presson - Bernie Mermelstein
Leonard Nimoy - Mel Mermelstein

“- The Narrator: When people think you're dying, they really, really listen to you, instead of just...
- Marla Singer: Instead of just waiting for their turn to speak?”
Edward Norton - The Narrator
Helena Bonham Carter - Marla Singer

“Pain is how your body talks to you. You'd do well to listen to it.”
Kurt Russell - Sheriff Hunt

“- Judge Benjamin Caulfield: It's always been a game, only now the bad guys have a stronger team, got a better draft.
- Superior Court Judge Steven R. Hardin: You know I took a lot of notes in your class and I can never remember you saying anything quite like that.
- Judge Benjamin Caulfield: You should have taken fewer notes and listened more.”

Hal Holbrook - Judge Benjamin Caulfield
Michael Douglas - Superior Court Judge Steven R. Hardin

“- Lord Caversham: Do you always understand everything you say?
- Lord Arthur Goring: Yes... if I listen attentively.
- Lord Caversham: Conceited young puppy!”
John Wood - Lord Caversham
Rupert Everett - Lord Arthur Goring

“- Simon: I don't like to talk.
- Rachel: Perfect. I don't like to listen.”
Dermot Mulroney - Simon
Lindsay Lohan - Rachel