With People Quotes

My mom made me go to a Britney Spears concert when I was young. And I was like, 'No, I don't want to!' she was like, 'You're going to be a performer, you need to see other people.'

Just because you're famous doesn't mean you're something special and you're above other people.

The idea of a journeyman actor, people sort of say negatively - "Someone who never made it for real" - [but] I think a journeyman actor is the complete goal.

I think that it's a myth that there's one job that makes your whole career, unless you're winning an Oscar. But even that doesn't work for some people.

Even though I'm on a show that I love with people that I love - I have basically the dream job - that doesn't mean I'm not getting rejected on a daily basis.

We live in a time where improv is king and people love improv, and I think there's a time and a place for that and people who are really good at structuring improv.

I think that literary forms are losing their capacity to connect people to issues, to the experiences that feel most meaningful to them.

I think that if you just write your characters you end up with something that people can access.

Half of what's wrong with people today is that they ain't got no place to go that makes them peaceful.

Fiction writing is an act of imagination, lived experience is secondary in many ways, writing a novel really is all about inventing worlds and people.

I was a federal public defender during the most important years of the drug war. I saw people go to jail for nothing, and go to jail for a long time.

I always tell my kids that as soon as you have a secret, something about you that you are ashamed to have others find out, you have given other people the power to hurt you by exposing you.

Even if the dramatic scenes are really hard, if you're happy with what you have and it's been creative and you had a good time with the people you worked with, that's a good day.

You don't build for the way people live, but for the way they should live. I don't write about people as they are, but as they could be and should be.

That time and those people are upon you!

It's such a waste to be subtle and vicious with people who don't even know that you're being subtle and vicious

Im waiting, for what, my kind of people, what kind is that, i can tell my kind of people by their faces, by something in their faces.

Married people dont look like they have bedrooms on their minds when they look at each other. In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both...Not both.

There are no little people in America. There are only people, equal before the law, yearning to breathe free and wanting to achieve the best within them.

There is nothing wrong in helping other people, if and when they are worthy of the help and you can afford to help them.

Never ask people about your work.

There are very few pop people I'm interested in working with.

I was one of five out of 100 people who passed the test, which just proved to me how little Americans are taught geography.

I still think you people need to be curious [in order to absorb the culture]. You need to search Uzbekistani pop music.

I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams. I'm O.K. with that so long as my songs are my own. No one can take my songs away from me.

If people will listen, I will go anywhere in the world!

There is little consolation in the fact that millions of people are unhappier than we are. Why should other people's misery make us happier or more content?

I would like to say how much I resent people who say of the Islamic Republic that this is our culture - as if women like to be stoned to death, or as if they like to be married at the age of nine.

It's the hardest thing to come up with an hour of material that can consistently keep people laughing.

I always hate telling my jokes in print 'cause I always feel like it reads so not funny and people read it and they think, 'Oh, so that's what that guy does in his stand-up? That's terrible.'

I know my fan base is a smart group of people.

I write characters that are based on elements of people I know and experiences I've really had.

A lot of people my age think stand up sucks.

Once you become a comedian, you accept that people are just going to yell stuff at you.

I'm the kind of person, if I see something, like a funny video, I want to share it. With Twitter and Tumblr you can do that on a mass scale, and people get to know your personality.

I just think it's sad that the main places in our culture that we designate to meet new people are bars and nightclubs.

London seems to be a town with a lot of comedy fans and people that really enjoy stand-up.

With stand-up, it's more interesting to hear about people's failures than their successes.

Some people can have a dark side, completely the opposite of the image they portray.

Religion began as a natural explanation of the universe. The problem started when people refused to accept new evidence.

The crowds treat me like my last name. When I go onstage people usually stand up, I never ask them to, but they do. They stand up and they don't know how much I appreciate it.

I have never seen people who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom they are working.

There's no such thing as a self-made man. I've had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you.

Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.

The most exciting thing I aspire to do is to write something new that I know is going to work, or perform something that I know is going to make people laugh.

With a sketch show, it's "a bunch of people and they're being funny." In a way that you can't really explain it.

So the CD is a great way to get yourself acquainted with some people who in three years, maybe even one year, be really big.

: But the people on the CD are famous. Those people were coming out to see those people. I don't think they need that kind of intimacy with those people.

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".

I don't really concentrate on Urban AC or whatever. I don't concentrate on genres or how people section off songs for radio.