Person Quotes

• Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself to quite a large extent.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Focus
  • Care
  • Listening

• I think you are who you are, and your kids will see who you are. So you'd better be a good person, because they are going to see it, and that's going to shape them. They are going to become you.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Shape

• The most annoying person on the BBC is Russell Brand, I've actually been close up to that boy. He smells like when you mix garlic with coffee and alcohol. I'm just saying when you get close to him, he could do with a bit of Sure For Men, he stinks.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Up
  • Men
  • Boy

• Telling puts the other person down. It implies that the other person does not already know what I am telling and that the other person ought to know it.

  

  Edgar Schein
  • Person
  • Telling
  • Implies

• The challenging part of parenting for me is to make sure that an individual person is an individual and not some sort of cookie-cutter version of me. At the same time, I want to make sure that I impart my sense of the world as an adult.

  

  Jamie Lee Curtis
  • Challenging
  • Version
  • Adult

• I am the misunderstood person, I have been misunderstood for the past several years.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Past
  • Years
  • Misunderstood

• I think that any person who is commenting on public affairs is entitled to point out those dangers.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Person
  • Dangers
  • Public affairs

• If a person has built a sound character, it makes but little difference what people say about him, because he will win in the end.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • People
  • Character
  • Difference

• No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Person
  • Miserable
  • Ever

• Maybe if the right person floats into your life, you have to jump in with both feet and try to make it work before the tide turns.

  

  Claire Cook
  • Life
  • Work
  • Jump

• Everyone asks me about being so worried or thinking about existence as if I'm the only person who can't understand why a tree grows the way it does or why a person is in power when they're not that great. These are questions everyone has.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Why

• I'm unapologetic not because I'm strong-willed or overconfident, I'm unapologetic because this is it; this is my life. There is nothing I can do, no one I can please. I am a person with a strong sense of being, that's all.

  

  Jean Seberg
  • Person
  • Being
  • Sense

• You know what's the most terrifying thing about admitting that you're in love? You're just naked. You put yourself in harm's way and you lay down all your defences. No clothes, no weapons. Nowhere to hide, completely vulnerable. The only thing that makes it tolerable is to believe the other person loves you back and you can trust him not to hurt you.

  

  Mary Doria Russell
  • Believe
  • Weapons
  • Harm

• I actually made an effort to reject acting, to shove it out of my body, because I didn't want my kids to have an actress as a mother-to have, like, a silly person.

  

  Lisa Kudrow
  • Kids
  • Mother
  • Effort

• Most of the time I do feel like I need someone else when I'm alone. But I can still get by with just my own company and that makes me a stronger person.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Time
  • Alone
  • Like

• I've always had a sense of groundedness as a person. I think that's helped me. My mother sort of beat into me the notion of humility, and I think my focus has always been on the right things or the things that I'm passionate about, which is just simply the work.

  

  Elijah Wood
  • Work
  • Mother
  • Focus

• The more a person perceives that he/she is loved, the less they will interfere with the lives of others.

  

  William Glasser
  • Loved
  • Lives
  • Perceives

• I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Way
  • Person
  • Hard job

• There is a time when every person who encounters Jesus, who believes Jesus is the Son of God, decides that they will spend their life following Him. Some people, like the Apostle Paul, make this decision the minute they meet Him, the minute they become a Christian. Others, like the Apostle Peter, endure years of half-hearted commitment and spiritual confusion before leaping in with all their passion. Still others may enjoy some benefits of God's love and grace without entering into the true joy of a marriage with their maker.

  

  Donald Miller
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I am a very complicated person.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Person
  • Complicated

• We have a couple of dogs, but I wouldn't describe myself as an animal person.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Myself
  • Couple
  • Animal

• I'm not a stand-up comedian. I'm not an improv person or anything, but I've always been a fan of that stuff.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Up
  • Always
  • Improv

• Sometimes the teacher would tell me that if you're singing a love song and you just don't feel it with a person or something you've experienced, just think of a dog or cat that you love.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • Song
  • Singing
  • Teacher

• At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn't matter. You said, 'That's an American' because there's a readiness to smile and to talk to people.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Person
  • Paris
  • Talk

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