Michael Socha Quotes

I love watching people, guessing what they are going to do next. I'm no Derren Brown, but I love that people stuff. Maybe that's why I'm an actor.

Michael Socha

• People
• Watching
• Maybe
• Guessing

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• You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • People
  • Hope
  • Moral

• The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • Important
  • Service

• Sure, just like there are bad lawyers, bad doctors and bad politicians, there are people who aren't cut out to be teachers. But by and large, the people who are called to be teachers are passionate about the profession.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • People
  • Bad
  • Lawyers

• Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.

  

  Larry Page
  • People
  • Bad
  • Think

• Whenever I get an audition to do something that is sci-fi-related, it makes me really happy because I realize that I can continue doing the work that I'm doing and continue meeting people all over the world. It does baffle my management team sometimes, though!

  

  J. August Richards
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• We saw very little of the real Jack Buck behind the microphone. He would touch people in ways that we will never know. Jack was much more than just an announcer.

  

  Ozzie Smith
  • People
  • Real
  • Know

• Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • People
  • Done
  • Job

• I didn't plan on going into show business. Show business picked me. And it's been fun. One of the best things about being in show business is people think they know me, and they feel like they grew up with me.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • Up
  • Business

• Often people would mistake me for white when I was younger, and I didn't correct them; there would be a period of time that they just thought I was.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • People
  • Time
  • Mistake

• I have my website, The Ruckus, which is an Internet site, similar to the Funny or Die format, where people post funny videos. I get a chance to rate their videos; they get a chance to blog and kick it with me.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • People
  • Funny
  • Die

• People do connect me with James Bond simply because I happen to like scrambled eggs and short-sleeved shirts and some of the things that James Bond does, but I certainly haven't got his guts nor his very lively appetites.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • People
  • Certainly
  • Lively

• Sometimes, when you watch people play a video game, they seem lost in this wormhole, or in a trance.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • Game
  • Lost

• When I travel overseas on many occasions, I get pulled out because I may be buying a one-way ticket, I may be traveling with my sister and we have different last names. That's smart profiling. Just pulling people out one at a time when we have millions of passengers in random screenings I'm not sure is the best way to do it.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Great
  • Judgment

• There have been many people whom I have admired, emulated and even modeled parts of my life after. I study how they do things, and then I go through a period of 'trying on' those same thinking patterns and behaviors. After awhile, what is not essentially me falls away while the useful parts remain.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• I don't think people understand the power of social media or our phones.

  

  Zendaya
  • People
  • Power
  • Social Media

• They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • People
  • Land
  • Criminals

• I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • People
  • Art
  • History

• Slackers might look like the left-behinds of society, but they are actually one step ahead, rejecting most of society and the social hierarchy before it rejects them. The dictionary defines slackers as people who evade duties and responsibilities. A more modern notion would be people who are ultimately being responsible to themselves and not wasting their time in a realm of activity that has nothing to do with who they are or what they might be ultimately striving for.

  

  Richard Linklater
  • People
  • Responsible
  • Hierarchy

• Not louder shrieks to pitying heav'n are cast, When husbands, or when lapdogs, breathe their last.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Breathe

• I like messy. What fun is tidy?

  

  Dasha Zhukova
  • Fun

• Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Writing
  • Learn
  • Start

• I love watching people, guessing what they are going to do next. I'm no Derren Brown, but I love that people stuff. Maybe that's why I'm an actor.

  

  Michael Socha
  • People
  • Watching
  • Maybe