Anna Deavere Smith Quotes

I love studying how people are. Not just what they're saying, but how they are, what they're doing.

Anna Deavere Smith

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• Every time - well, not every time, but in celebration of a great review or a great accolade, I take the team of Daniel to Katz's Deli for lunch. We take the trip on the subway, we were like 40 or 50 people, and we go in the back room and have a pastrami sandwich.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• When you work on a movie, especially an independent movie, it's a lot of work to make it! It's not just our job as actors - so many people are working so hard, and even the littlest movie takes a lot of work.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Work
  • Job

• Let's face it; people are doing everything online these days. So if they are going to watch my movies, I'm happy as long as it's being bought legally and being exhibited legally, as long as they are paying even a small fee for it. I'm just anti-piracy. If it's a legitimate way of watching film online, then I'm very happy.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • People
  • Long
  • Happy

• Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its own will, the assassination of the people will continue.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • People
  • Long
  • Own

• I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • People
  • Sound
  • Security

• I got along with people very well at every job I had, people liked me and I liked them and I loved being on my feet.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • People
  • Job
  • Me

• The fact is that viewers are fickle and it's rare that such a large group of people can be categorized in any type of way. There's enough content to go around, and if we stop focusing on numbers and start focusing on the quality of the project, then I think everybody - viewers and artists alike - is going to be a lot happier.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • People
  • Stop
  • Quality

• Anyone who has been to India - specifically Rajasthan, the rich and kingly region in the country's northwest - knows that when it comes to adornment, Indians do not think like other people.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • People
  • Country
  • Think

• When people take advantage of you and make a business out of it, that's not nice.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • People
  • Business
  • Nice

• I motivate what I see in young people because we employ about forty thousand young people in our various Chick-fil-A units. Some of them come to work because they need to work; others just work because they just like to work. There's nothing wrong with that.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • People
  • Work
  • Young

• Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• I know victims of domestic abuse. I know what it takes for people to get out, and I also know why people stay. It's heartbreaking.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • People
  • Why
  • Know

• Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.

  

  Dan Gable
  • People
  • School
  • High

• I've never been a big fan of making telepathy to the audience. That would be too much a wink in the eye. That would make people around me fools, right?

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • People
  • Me
  • Eye

• Marriage is socialism among two people.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • People
  • Marriage
  • Socialism

• Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • People
  • Remember
  • Giving

• Some people care too much. I think it's called love.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • People
  • Love
  • Think

• It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, reinvention, and chameleon. Because one word I don't like is predictable.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • People
  • Words
  • Change

• Some people die, others just run out of fuel.

  

  Carmen Boullosa
  • People
  • Death
  • Running

• I'm certain that it was an incredible gift for me to not only be friends with some of the greatest blues people who've ever lived, but to learn how they played, how they sang, how they lived their lives, ran their marriages, and talked to their kids.

  

  Bonnie Raitt
  • People
  • Kids
  • Friends

• I wouldn't say I'm a very controlling person. For instance, when I talk to the actors, I don't tell them exactly what I want because I want them to surprise me. I even encourage them to change some of the verses of the script if they need to.

  

  Alejandro Amenabar

• With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it's hard to get up the courage to say, Can I sing this part, or, I want to play guitar. I feel like I have more courage to do that.

  

  Jeff Ament
  • Up
  • Good
  • Courage

• I love studying how people are. Not just what they're saying, but how they are, what they're doing.

  

  Anna Deavere Smith
  • People