People Quotes
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Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common.
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I love that Moana is a heroine, and I hope people take that away, and that you most certainly can be the heroine, or hero, of your own story.
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A lot of people got lost in Hollywood while trying to become a star. They lost themselves.
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As an actor, particularly in theatre, you're trying to get jobs on TV; but you're also losing jobs in theatre to people who are on television.
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My little scam in April '85 went like this: Give me $50,000; here's some names of some people we've recruited.
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Sexism and racism and homophobia and classism are so naturalized. All these stereotypes make people think it's just normal that straight white men are getting all the breaks.
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For me, self-gratification eventually took a backseat to trying to do something collaborative with other people, to trying to make something new.
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I can only really speak for myself and what I've noticed in my kids and the people in my life, but because dinosaurs were real, and yet they seem so fantastical, is why they held such a huge fascination for me as a child. They're so different from human beings.
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But I have to grow out of it, because it's very boring, really. Even when you're telling people how crap you are, you're still banging on about yourself.
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As a novelist, I feel lucky that I can traffic in nuance. I'm more interested in looking at how things change over time, at how people try and sometimes fail to make meaning out of their lives.
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Anything can become a big tune in Scandinavia because people decide what they want to listen to. So I think that's very motivating because songwriters can really think outside the box. A great song - whether or not it's radio-friendly - can really blow up here.
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I was sure we would never see the adoption of the Euro. Countries giving up their currencies for a common tender was, it seemed to me, completely out of tune with currency being a carrier of people's cultural identity, celebrating national heroes and events, as it had been for hundreds of years.
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People want good stories.
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Whenever I'm reading a book I enjoy, I always develop a mental list of the people I want to share it with.
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For everyday you just need one makeup element. People dress so casual today and we're living in a time where almost anything goes.
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As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affectation if I were to begin it now?
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I think there is something very nice about going to work to try to make people laugh.
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I believe that history is not made by cynics; it is made by realists who are not afraid to dream. Let us be these people.
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I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in fifty years what my father taught me by example in one week.
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The Lord is going to keep His people informed if they will listen.
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People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.
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Throughout history new and correct ideas have often failed at the outset to win recognition from the majority of people and have to develop by twists and turns in struggle. Often correct and good things have first been regarded not as fragrant flowers but poisonous weeds.
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I want to just change how people look at music and artists.
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A lot of people just ask me about how I can do small budgets and big budgets, but many actors do both. I think the more self-destructive impulse I have is doing so many different characters.
