For The People Quotes

Because I hate fake people and I always think I'm never fake.

"Make your plate look like a Christmas tree," I tell people, "mostly green with splashes of other bright colors."

In the beginning, people think vulnerability will make you weak, but it does the opposite. It shows you're strong enough to care.

I think I'm a people person. I get very attached to people. And I've become so attached to all the people on my show, the cast, the crew and the producers.

If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony.

The money I earn from films means I can help the people I want to help - you can do a lot of good if you want to.

When people say that entertainers should "know your place," they might as well say the same thing about plumbers and teachers and cab drivers. We all should be able to express our views.

People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.

Some genres I'm not a huge fan of but there are always exceptions that break the rules. There are always a few people doing it in a way weird enough to grab my attention.

I grew up with all kinds of people.

I always want another actor to shine in my scene because it makes the film stronger. I would encourage people to scene steal, because filmmaking is a collaborative effort.

We give people way too much credit. People just get crazy.

School doesn't really teach you how to interact with people properly, you learn that outside of school.

The work is the understanding of the people that you're speaking for. The further you get away from that, the further you are from the work.

Things don't really go that well when people get back together.

The ones that actually affect people who don't have enough money to change them - which is almost everybody. But that has nothing to do with the president.

The one thing about me is, I don't care what people think. It all starts with yourself. I believe in myself. I love myself. So it's kind of like, they can shove it up their you - know - whats.

One of the people that wrote a forward to my book is Gerry Spence, whom I admire. Gerry is a friend of mine, and Gerry's perhaps the leading criminal defense attorney in the country.

To me, the trick is not how can I make people laugh. It is, how can I make people laugh in a different way.

The American people must not buy into the Democrat rhetoric.

We will know our forgiveness is complete when we have a genuine desire for the welfare of the people who have wronged us.

Now the writer, I think, has the chance to live more than other people in the presence of ... reality. It is his business to find it and collect it and communicate it to the rest of us.

We agreed that people are now afraid of the English language. He [T.S. Eliot] said it came of being bookish, but not reading books enough. One should read all styles thoroughly.

My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don't notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

Where the bourgeois economists saw a relation between things (the exchange of one commodity for another) Marx revealed a relation between people.

Our idea is that a state is strong when the people are politically conscious. It is strong when the people know everything, can form an opinion of everything, and do everything consciously.

It's better not to argue with women... When people push boundaries too far, it's not because they are strong but because they are weak. But maybe weakness is not the worst quality for a woman.

The Russian people chose democracy at the beginning of the 1990s and this was their final choice.

I think the American people should express their preferences and we'll accept their choice.

Only 3 to 5 percent of people are aware of being a part of history; the overwhelming majority think things will always be the way they are.

Soviet-era nostalgia has strong support among the people. But not among the elite and, in my opinion, not with the president. We are not interested in keeping remnants of the communist era alive.

Some people just don’t appreciate having a dog around. It’s sad to think there are people like that. I knew Gloria was that way—maybe that’s why she could never be truly happy.

The movie people would have nothing to do with me until they heard me speak in a Broadway play, then they all wanted to sign me for the silent movies.

If you destroy the people of a company, you do not have much left.

You might not agree with something, but it doesn't mean you don't need to listen to it. White people have to accept that they don't always know about racism.

Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.

I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.

Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less.

Children notice things first, people later.

I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.

Somebody has to be prepared to be the good guy from time to time in order for the human race to prosper, though most people don't want it to be them.

When people have asked if I'd like to go in the Shuttle, I said you don't get to fly it, except for landing, which I'd love to do. I wouldn't go unless I could command it

I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept

When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.

Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.

My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well-known blues musicians.

Truth is not always hard to find; it is often staring you in the face. The problem with truth is that it is hard to believe. It is even harder to get other people to believe.

Sadly, some folks want others to feel their pain, to hurt as much as they do-or more. My grandmother once told me to avoid colds and angry people whenever I could. It's sound advice.