Person Quotes
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So many things in the world have happened before. But it's like they never did. Every new thing that happens to a person, it's a first... In that night I felt expansion, as if the world was branching out in shoots and growing faster than the eye could see. I felt smallness, how the earth divided into bits and kept dividing. I felt stars.
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“To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.”
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The only person stopping you from doing something is yourself, and looking for excuses all the time just gets in the way of obtaining your own goals. It's like the writer who keeps getting up and straightening the pictures in the room.
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Jimmy and I have stayed friends for 37 years. I speak to him at least twice a day. He is the most remarkable person.
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I'm, like, the most terrible person to go to a party with in the world, because I just can't enjoy it. I'm just thinking all the time about what it means and what the implications are.
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I'm the kind of person who does not want to be anywhere that I'm not wanted.
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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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To tell a person who has ADD to try harder is about as helpful as telling someone who is nearsighted to squint harder.
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I guess when I was a kid I wasn't the type of person playing a lot of pranks. I was the type of person upon whom pranks were pulled.
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When you watch all these other projects, you always see the little guy, sitting in the corner, feeling sorry for himself and blaming the whole world, ... You don't see a normal person.
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This person realizes that staying home means blowing off everyone this person has ever known. But the desire to stay in is very strong. This person wants to run a bath and then read in bed.
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Life's hard in Haiti right now. And the hardest thing is that the future does not lie with one person.
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It was smart on his part, but it still took guts. I kind of admire him for doing that.
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I like, for instance, 'Serpico.' I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could - I could embody him. I could, you know, I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It's almost like a painter having a model to become.
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In New Zealand, we have a one-party disclosure system, where if one of you knows you're being recorded, it's completely fine. It doesn't matter if the other person doesn't know. Look, I'm not breaking new ground by recording people who don't want to be recorded.
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Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory normal person + anonymity + audience = total fuckwad
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A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it
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People always ask me, 'Hey, what's Matt Damon like?' He's just a dude, just a really good person and one hell of an actor.
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She couldn’t picture anyone falling madly in love with such a person as Fish. What a name, Fish...Fish: think cold, slippery, detached. Benedict: think dry scholarly monk from the Dark Ages. Denniston: think English preparatory school, stolid country squire. Nothing about his name sounded the least bit romantic.
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If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed.
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I've always been an all around creative person. Song writing and writing are great ways for me to express myself.
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I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. It's very character-building.
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Enthusiasm is contagious, and the person who has it, under control, is generally welcome in any group of people.
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A lot of people have this strategy where if they have a hard question they wait to ask it to the end of the interview because they think the person is going to walk out. But what they have to realize is, is that if the person walks out, they have a pretty successful story.
