Persons Quotes
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When I first started acting, I had all these ideals about the kinds of roles I wanted to play, but the reality is that when you do television - and I do a lot of television - you get cast for qualities that you have as a person. So I look for qualities that I like to portray.
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You develop a team to achieve what one person cannot accomplish alone. All of us alone are weaker, by far, than if all of us are together.
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Talking about your feeling with someone who is willing to listen can be enormously consoling, especially if that person has experienced a death similar to the one you are grieving.
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I never claimed to be the best singer, I never claimed to be the best dancer, but I do claim to be the person that can put them together best.
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Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others.
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I'm happiest when I'm acting, and I've dedicated my life to it. Still, as much as I love acting, at the end of the day, I want to be remembered as a great person, first, and as a great actor, second.
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Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.
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Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard.
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We should praise the qualities we would like to see in others, declare that others possess them already, and then watch how quickly these persons will respond.
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The only thing I can be sure of at any given time is what I am thinking myself. I have no idea what the others are thinking. Do they think space is big and dangerous? I do. What do they believe in? I think nobody ought to be alone. That one should be with someone. With friends. With the person one loves. I think it is important to love. I think it's the most important thing.
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I'm a really judgmental person, and it just dumbs everything down. It doesn't create any room for interrogation or investigation.
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Sometimes a person thinks he's attached to one thing and he's really attached to something else.
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I much prefer the company of the crew, the sort of 'blue-collar working person.' I much more have that sensibility than what the public perceives as what a typical actor would have.
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All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.
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It's a wise person, I guess, who knows he's dumb, and an honest person who knows he's a liar. And it's a dumb person, I guess, whose convinced he's wise...-Bob Slocum
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If a religious person says "No, no, no" and they won't listen to science, it makes me think that they don't have faith in their own religion.
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I am definitely a Type-A, tidy, everything-has-a-place kind of person, so initially encouraging a mess was against my nature. But once you realize all the benefits, it's pretty simple to let that go.
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We are not a monolithic group of individuals, not every single person believes the exact same thing.
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Together, we looked down at the tiny house, the sole thing on this vast, flat surface. Like the only person living on the moon. It could be either lonely or peaceful, depending on how you looked at it. "It's a start," I said.
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If you start to feel that you have given up too many parts of yourself to be with your partner, then one day you will end up looking for another person in order to reconnect with those lost parts.
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Experiencing flow helps a person remember that they are unique. ... Just like everyone else.
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I always tell my employees, the busier it gets, the slower you should cook. When you run around like a crazy person, that's when things go wrong.
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How could I pretend to be someone else when I was already failing at being the person I already was?
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To get to play a bad person and do bad things in a safe environment like 'Arrow' was pretty amazing.
