With People Quotes

Most people who deal in words don't have much faith in them and I am no exception.

I am not going to go round trying to make people say 'Wow!'... I'm not going to play Hollywood lookalikes.

I'm not sure I'm the sort of actor people are hugely interested in finding out an awful lot about.

I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.

The government has to be on the side of the people if the corporations take too much power.

Our prisons are full of people who think they're Napoleon..or God.

If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.

No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural.

It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.

When people who are songwriters say 'That's my property and if you give it away for free then I'll lose my incentive,' then, well, good riddance.

People will say "You must miss playing to a thousand people." But I don't. I might miss playing. That's what I would miss, but I don't miss it, because I am playing.

I think the greatest thing about being an actor is that you can become other people. ... You have the opportunity to explore ... alternative ways of living for a brief time.

There were a number of people who helped me get there, and the one I always mention is Michael Byrne, the great master swordsman and brilliant stunt double.

That was the big effect Lord of the Rings had on me. It was discovering New Zealand. And even more precious were the people- not at all like the Australians.

I don't like people who speak French in public places. This includes the French.

We cannot progress as a society, as a people, if we lack compassion.

Im pleased to say that in telling them, and especially my parents, they told me that they love me and they support me. And for young people out there, know that thats usually what the answer is.

I wish more people would belabor the obvious, and more often.

I usually don't mind movies that people think go overboard because that's what art is all about. Art is about pushing us and making us examine ourselves.

I always say the movie came out good if they want another one. That always tells me that people really liked the movie.

A lot of people play single to work some angle. I'm always about keeping it real. If that's how I'm living, that's how I'm living.

I love working with a cast and a group of people every day, which is different than recording because you're usually pretty isolated and alone. They serve as a good balance for each other.

I've never had to explain Prometheus to people, ever. Most people get it.

As an actor, you're trained to do the right thing, be politically correct, say your lines, say the right thing about the people you're working with...

It's really funny because the same people who loved me as Stringer Bell were the same people that were watching Daddy's Little Girls literally in tears.

Painting requires skill. Photography is created by the camera, and one cannot fully control what the camera sees. So people take many photographs because several must always be discarded.

Portrait painters' mission is to portray people and the beauty of Creation. They should stay clear of ego.

Either accept people for what they are, or don't. So, in other words, man, if people don't know me, I think they do themself an injustice. Because, as a whole, I think I'm a good person.

Islamic terrorism is the handiwork of people who've heeded, not hijacked, Islam. Or so says [Wafa] Sultan.

when men don't like another man everyone assumes he's no good and that the men know what they are talking about, yet when women dislike another woman people just think they're being catty.

People are subject to moods, to temptations and fears, lethargy and aberration and ignorance, and the staunchest qualities shift under the stresses and strains of daily life.

[Tyson Chandler] doesn't listen to people either. He does whatever he feels like and people will be like, "Who dressed you?"

The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.

People who have a conservative viewpoint both religiously and politically and they fear that the world is going to be thrown into perpetual communism.

It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.

When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me.

I never thought of myself in comedy at all... I loved going to the theatre and seeing people wearing beautiful clothes come down the staircase and start to dance.

It's always sad to me when certain people are excluded from being considered beautiful... because of someone else's expectation. That bothers me.

Anyway, in my performance style, I'm a singer-songwriter. People can call it neo-soul or R&B or whatever. But at the core, when you see me live, I'm a singer-songwriter.

You said, 'How is it possible for democracy to work with an illiterate people who are dying of hunger?' But with that people we made a democracy work.

[Visiting Richard Nixon] useful only to me. The experience taught me that when people do something against you, that something always turns out in your favor.

People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer.

I don't think anyone has the right to intrude in your life, but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman.

Young people have so many letdowns that people don't realize.

In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it.

No matter how hard times are, people still want music.

You can't just say, "I'm gonna have style." You have to work at it. It's intuitive; some people have it, and some people can work on it all day long, and it will never happen.

Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing.

People have obsessions and fears and passions which they don't admit to. I think every character is interesting and has extremes. It's the novelist privilege to see how odd everyone is.

I want to entertain people, but with some substance.