People Quotes
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I never was in such a horrid office . . . It's not very nice to be where people are being swindled all day long, is it?
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Before I even knew what stand up was, I tried to make people laugh at school because that was how I made friends, so I think that's how I got drawn into comedy and obviously I was just some kid at school being silly, so the first time I saw a professional comedian and how smooth and funny the person was I totally got into standup and I would say obviously Richard Pryor was the guy. He's the greatest of all time and then George Carlin, Sam Kinison, Bill Cosby. It's so weird to bring up his name now but leaving out his off-stage antics... you could learn a lot from him.
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Part of walking the line as showrunner is trying to please people and still be true to what you believe creatively.
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I used to want to fix people, but now I just want to be with them.
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People are complicated. There is so much more to everybody than you realise.
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It's pretty overwhelming to know that people can call up Moviefone and find out where it's playing.
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I had never considered myself a political guy, but there are certain things I can't shut up about. When I hear people say things like, 'If 'we' allow gays to marry, then people will want to marry animals and children,' I can't just stand there.
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We're all separate and individual people.
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The poor give us much more than we give them. They're such strong people, living day to day with no food. And they never curse, never complain. We don't have to give them pity or sympathy. We have so much to learn from them.
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The indoor game is much more of a team game, having to work effectively with a group of 15 to 20 people, striving to improve every day, every drill, even every contact. The beach game is much more of an individual game within a team sport, much less about organized practices with coaches and much more about just playing the game.
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I can't stand the kind of paralysis that some people fall into because they're not happy with the choices they've made.
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Whenever a film has three different release dates, people understandably assume that there must be something wrong with it.
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I feel comfortable working with people who are secure in themselves and confident in what they do.
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It seems like a contradiction, but the shy person who is a performer actually does make sense, because in a way, when you're young and shy, making people laugh is a good way to make friends. It's an instant connection.
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I think most people, no matter their status now, have big screen TVs, because they're the standard TVs now. And so why would you go to the cinema?
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It's the universal feeling that we all are alone - that we're all different. I think the movie's one resounding theme is that everybody feels the same, and we're all alone together. Some people come up to me on the street and thank me for helping them get through their teen years.
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I honestly and truly love and believe in what I'm making, and it's not a joke, whereas some people would take a singer – songwriter sitting behind an acoustic guitar as sincere.
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One of the ways you go after the debt, one of the ways you create jobs is by investing in people.
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Failure either breaks people or it makes them succeed.
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I think people have to recognise that the traditional modes of authority weren't that great.
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I believe that as soon as people want peace in the world they can have it. The trouble is they are not aware they can get it.
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One of the hardest things about being alive is being with other people.
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If there is a spot where you have dictatorship, where people are not free, people are not satisfied, they do not find food and shelter, they are under the poverty level, this is a dangerous spot for the whole world, because those people will move, and they will move to different places. They will be carrying bad feelings towards others.
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I remember being disappointed when Papa had shown me Caravaggio's Judith. She was completely passive while she was sawing through a man's neck. Caravaggio gave all the feeling to the man. Apparently, he couldn't imagine a woman to have a single thought. I wanted to paint her thoughts, if such a thing were possible - determination and concentration and belief in the absolute necessity of the act. The fate of her people resting on her shoulders.
