On Memorial Day I was out floating on Lake Norman and came across Denny Hamlin. We struck up a conversation and one of the first things we were talking about was how much it helped him when he started racing the Cup car and how much it helped his Nationwide program.

Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It's been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for seven years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro in X-men has led people to believe that I know what I'm talking about. But I'm still trying to work out how to operate the air conditioning unit on my car.

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.

Half the time men think they are talking business they are wasting time.

Whether you were talking about Pillsbury Burger King Godfather's the National Restaurant Association in each one of those situations I had a daunting problem that I had to solve. And I used the same business principles to approach the problem and more importantly solve the problem in every one of the situations.

I am a sensitive writer actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business call my disgusting personal manager.

I did 13-something years of talking to wrestlers and promoters about why they did certain things and why they booked matches a certain way and what they were thinking and whether they were satisfied with the draw. And I got a lot of insight in the business.

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You'd be amazed how many companies don't listen to their customers.

Even when I was a kid I had a good thing with kids. To this day if I go to a birthday party with one of my kids I swear to you I am so much happier hanging out with my kids and their friends than talking to the grown-ups.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.

If you're lucky enough to have a pretty girl love you and share herself and sleep with you make that your secret. The best way to spoil love is by talking to too many people about it.

I mean the beauty of being a writer is it's not like being a swimmer. When they were talking about our Olympic swimmers and they'd say 'Oh she's so old ' and she's all of 25 or something. So the beauty for a writer is that you can keep doing it right into your dotage and I hope to be able to keep doing it as long as I can get away with it yeah.

The game in beauty is changing so much if your product isn't high tech or can't make a unique performance claim - plump your lips reduce your lines look glossy and stay on for 24 hours - you can't go to market today. I'm not just talking about a $20 lipstick but a $5 lipstick!

My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make it's about talking as clearly as I can.

Prayer is talking with God. God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart.

It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

I don't watch television I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

Jeffrey Deitch is the Jeff Koons of art dealers. Not because he's the biggest best or the richest of his kind. But because in some ways he's the weirdest (which is saying a lot when you're talking about the wonderful wicked lovable and annoying creatures known as art dealers).

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have because when you're talking about building a house you're talking about dreams.

The American people are smart. They've gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points and canned anger.