Persons Quotes
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The more you let yourself be distracted from where you are going, the more you are the person that you are. It's not so much like getting lost as it is like getting found.
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In general, lives seem to veer abruptly from one thing to another, to jostle and bump, to squirm. A person heads in one direction, turns sharply in mid-course, stalls, drifts, starts up again. Nothing is ever known, and inevitably we come to a place quite different from the one we set out for.
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Success can come to a person who has failed, but it will never come to a person who quits
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With any actor, rather than tips, I think when you enjoy working with somebody and you enjoy what they do, I think your reaction is partly to be doing what they're doing, so you're learning all the time, whether it be sub-consciously or whether it be just through the person you enjoy working with.
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A person who uses party as a verb is a person who will walk into a shop and walk out wearing a rubber jumpsuit.
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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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Show me a person who doesn't like to laugh and I'll show you a person with a toe tag.
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Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.
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I was the only person of color in the Senate, and my colleagues were Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms and Trent Lott.
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Repeat nothing - absolutely nothing - that is told you in confidence. There is no such thing as telling just one person.
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I acknowledge the Roman Church to be our mother church, although defiled with some infirmities and corruptions...Let [the Papists] assure themselves, that, as I am a friend of their persons, if they be good subjects, so am I a vowed enemy, and do denounce mortal war to their errors.
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I am the least qualified person to comment on anyone playing the role of Batman since I so terribly destroyed the part.
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I don't think people expect Bruce Springsteen to come out in a pink satin jacket, but Rod Stewart, they do. And I like doing it; I don't wear it just because I think I have to. I'm a very flamboyant person.
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The person seeing perfection is the Master.
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I love to read nonfiction and memoir, but I'm mostly interested in the piece of writing more than the person.
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I'm a huge fan of [Elijah Wood] work and a huge fan of him, as a person. What's great about getting to know him is that he's just a really lovely, regular guy.
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The angriest person in a controversy is the one most liable to be in the wrong.
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A Supreme Court decision does not establish a "supreme law of the land" that is binding on all persons and parts of government, henceforth and forevermore.
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A person who can break wind is not dead.
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When I was in the Army, I read a book by Adlai Stevenson. He said law was as noble as saving a person's life. So at one point, I felt that way too.
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I'm a very competitive person. I always have been. And it's hard to be competitive about something as amorphous as acting. But you can be competitive on the track, because the rules are very simple and the declaration of the winner is very concise.
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If I were pretentious I would say that I'm not an average person. But really, I know how that is.
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It was so easy to disown what you couldn't recognize, to keep yourself apart from things that were foreign and unsettling. The only person you can be sure to control, always, is yourself. Which is a lot to be sure of, but at the same time, not enough.
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Not that the incredulous person doesn't believe in anything. It's just that he doesn't believe in everything.
