Normal Quotes

He's a normal, likable, straightforward boy. (on David Beckham)

I grew up treating a life as a writer as a career in letters, one devoted to many kinds of writing. And so it seemed normal to study both fiction writing and the literary essay as an undergrad.

For me, it's painful to make a movie. It's not my normal rhythm.

I get hit on so much it's not normal. I didn't realize so many men liked redheads.

Actresses are mental on the whole. But I think I'm pretty normal.

I was raised with adults. I skipped knowing how to interact as a normal teenage person.

even though disease and sorrow are all about us, health and happiness are the normal state of man.

Performing is one thing, and day-to-day stuff - like the way you talk to people - is totally different. If I acted like I did onstage in normal life, everyone would probably hate me.

[Golfers] are a special kind of moral realist who nips the normal romantic and idealistic yearnings in the bud by proving once or twice a week that life is unconquerable but endurable.

It may well be that a societys greatest madness seems normal to itself.

And I remember "normal" might never be the same again.

I have actor friends, but they're not famous. I feel like if you're an actor or - famous, you have to overly prove that you're a normal, cool person.

The girls I grew up with they're living normal, adult lives. So they call me now and they're like, 'Amy, I'm pregnant.' And I still react like, 'What are you going to do? I'll drive you, I guess.

Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones.

I guess if you're a normal person and all of a sudden you're getting $10 million a year, it can go to your head.

My pride and identity is wrapped up in my big trips. But I can't always be on one - I need to plan them and fund them, and I want some semblance of a normal life too.

I found it very comforting to see that there is no such thing as a completely normal family. People find their way through whatever the differences may be.

We're really into combining lots of different styles into one song: that's normal for us. It might seem arbitrary but we listen to a lot of music that does that.

So many people have so many problems. When you think that health is wealth, you're so grateful just to be normal, more or less. Aren't you?

I simply can't imagine the world will ever be normal again for us. I do talk about "after the war," but it's as if I'm talking about a castle in the air, something that can never come true.

Needless to say, there was no one around remotely fitting the description of a normal person: I was at a writing conference.

I watch 'Mad Men,' I knit scarves, I cook and am very, very normal. Honestly.

My family is very far from normal.

It's not normal, what I do. Just being on television isn't.

Your temperature's normal, though I'd say it's the only thing about you that is.

I never really thought in terms of the concept of being a rock star - being around people like that just seemed like normal day-in-the-life stuff to me. Those were just the surroundings I grew up in.

Education, like everything else, goes in fads, and has the normal human tendency to put up with something bad for just so long, and then rush to the other extreme.

I don't subscribe to the 'Doctor Who' magazine and we've only got the normal amount of 'Doctor Who' fridge magnets.

The Iago trance is a state that we've really come to accept as normal, even if we may not feel it to be natural.

I think I am normal. I am normal for me.

It became normal for women on the internet to adopt gender-neutral or male screen names.

The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it will ridicule any departure from it.

I have a tremendous amount of respect for military families. To have to worry about your loved ones and still try and live a normal life is extremely hard.

The line between normal and crazy seemed impossibly thin. A person would have to be an expert tightrope walker in order not to fall.

Life would be fabric-softener, tuna-salad-on-white, PTA-meeting normal.

I can't think of any bank robbery comedy where it's about two normal guys. It's kind of like Superbad meets Heat, which is a cool combo, and it's just fun doing a normal guy that's robbing a bank.

The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.

People could connect with me... I think the appeal was that, "Here he is, he's just a normal guy like us, and he's giving it his all".

You don't know how it would have turned out if [kids] would grown up in Chicago instead, and a more normal environment.

Reality... includes a perceiver, who has memories, thoughts, desires, emotions - [which] a normal camera tends to omit.

I've been thinking of trying to de-caricaturize Donald Trump. I thought it would be fun to try and, since he's already a caricature, to make him normal looking.

I missed a lot of school for auditions, but other than that I had a very normal childhood.

I couldn't picture myself with a boyfriend, but if I had to, I envisioned a nice normal guy who turned in his math homework on time and maybe even played rec baseball.

As in, I wouldn't know normal if it marched up and poked me in the eye.

I don't want to be normal. I want to be something else.

I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.

Anyone with a normal brain can do almost anything.

There is nothing normal about removing the FBI director, as a general matter. It's an extraordinary measure. This is an office that is typically served for a term of years, 10 years, to be precise.

I was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to follow my father.

From my point of view, it's very refreshing to play a regular human being and not someone from another dimension. When I say "not act," what I mean is just to be as natural and as normal as possible.