Steve Huffman

I'm rarely in a position where I can actually answer my phone without being rude to someone else. Sometimes I look back and realize it's been weeks since I've actually been alone. With texting, I can at least get a sense of what's going on without interrupting what I'm doing.

American Businessman

Jesse McCartney

I'm not a phony-friendly guy and I'm usually very quiet and not a big laugher, so some people might take that for rudeness and being mean. If anyone ever got that impression, I apologize. I love all my fans and really appreciate all their support!

American Musician

Stephen Merchant

When I was a teenager, I met a comedian who I admired, and he was very rude to me. That's why when people come up to me I try not to be rude. I don't want to name who he is, but it really put me off watching his stuff since.

English Writer

Bethany Hamilton

Learning how to deal with people and their reactions to my life is one of the most challenging things... people staring at me, people asking rude questions, dealing with media, stuff like that.

American Athlete

Maneet Chauhan

If there is a situation, I try to take a step back, cool down, and solve the problem. Flipping out, freaking out, and being very rude about it is not going to help.

Indian Chef

Kaya Scodelario

I think if someone was really rude to me in an audition, even someone quite important, I think I'd be, 'What are you doing? Don't talk to me like that!

British Actress

Laurence Fox

There is a guilty pleasure in being rude and knowing that it's acting rather than you. But you get the same release as if you were being rude in life.

English Actor

Mario Testino

Charm, I think, is education, really, no? I was educated to be nice to everybody. If you want to be rude and mean, I'm sure your life isn't that nice.

Peruvian Photographer

Michael McIntyre

If you can help it, don't be rude to people. When you're rude about someone and the audience laugh you can't deny that it's a bullying laugh.

English Comedian

Sarah Millican

I tell the audience bits of my rude life on stage so they don't mind telling me bits of theirs.

What's polite varies across cultures; ensure you understand local etiquette to avoid being rude unintentionally.

Cultural Sensitivity

Body language and facial expressions can also be rude, even without words.

Non-Verbal Cues

Using a sarcastic or condescending tone can make polite words sound rude.

Tone of Voice

Avoid rude language in formal settings or with people you don't know well.

Audience Awareness

What's funny to some may be rude to others; try to know your audience's limits.

Humor Boundaries

'Rude' often means very basic or early in development; think bare essentials.

Development Level

'Rude' can describe something unpolished or lacking sophistication in design.

Not Refined

'Rude awakening' means being suddenly forced to understand an unpleasant truth.

Harsh Realization

A 'rude interruption' disrupts events or conversations in an abrupt way.

Unexpected Disruption

 just make these rude comments thinking they were funny and I'd be forced to laugh along but in reality all I wanted to do was crawl into a hole and die and now imagine being a freshman having a huge football postgraduate who you've never talked to before in your life publicly make fun of you in passing and

Bullying must end now PIPE...

 but nobody has any idea what stuff costs. But what if we did know? So we started out small. We called doctors and hospitals and asked them what they would accept as a cash payment for simple procedures. Some people were helpful. A lot of people hung up on us. Some people were just plain rude.

What if all US health...

 I don't mean to be rude, but you know what a psychopath is. A psychopath is a person who, unfortunately for him or her, lacks the ability to really empathize with other human beings. When they look around, they don't see other human beings with deep, rich, three-dimensional personal lives

Which country does the...

 I think racism is it a negative thing because sometimes it can hurt people's feelings just because you're different Craig doesn't mean that you have to change very much to be like someone else if the world has to say only think about was then if it's gonna be a rude comment

These Twins Show That...

 So not only -- Not only did he have rude things to say about me and my peers, I felt it was important for us to stand up for each other and to stand up for myself. And at that point it was really important for me to say, like, I'm not afraid, I'm not going anywhere,

On tennis, love and...

 I thought my rightness justified my rudeness -- harsh tones, raised voices, insults, interruptions -- but that strategy is ultimately counterproductive. Dialing up the volume and the snark is natural in stressful situations,

I grew up in the...

 produce only a single baby very rarely twins and never three or more and you can quite see why it just wouldn't be rude there was a whole troupe of them crossing through the trees above our heads we followed them

Baby Lemur has Bumpy...

 Paul And as the game went on, one of the really interesting and dramatic patterns that we observed begin to emerge was that the rich players actually started to become ruder toward the other person --

Does money make you...

 shared in family gatherings, in the streets and in schools. It all hit me. It came into focus that those kids did not mean to be rude to my son. They were just influenced by the adults around them.

A Saudi woman who dared...

 were not meant to be rude to my son they were just influenced by the adults around them and it wasn't about me and it wasn't a punishment for taking the wheel and driving a few miles it was a