People Quotes

• Even though I was super personal with 'American Teen,' I want to tap in and not just tell my own stories but tell the stories of other people - so that I can help as many people as possible.

  

  Khalid
  • American
  • Help
  • Teen

• We must build a trickle-up media that reflects the true character of this country and its people. A democratic media serving a democratic society.

  

  Amy Goodman
  • Up
  • Country
  • Character

• I do like children, but only as people. Not as if they're a special category.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • People
  • Children
  • Special

• Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.

  

  Mark Haddon
  • People
  • Writing

• I'm with people all the time so I often go away on my own.

  

  Bruno Tonioli
  • People
  • Time

• I came from battling, knowing about the lyrics. All that's cool, but if you want people to love you, you have to talk to them about what they go through.

  

  Karim Kharbouch
  • People
  • Cool
  • Lyrics

• Whether it's just walking down the street to try to go to a movie, go to dinner, something like that, there are always a few people that recognize you.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Movie
  • Walking
  • Dinner

• Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.

  

  James A. Baldwin
  • People
  • Hope

• In business, in the music world, people know that I can be very friendly and warm but that, after a certain moment, the business is closed. I like to be alone: in order to concentrate on my work, the social life does not exist. It has never existed for me, really. I have chosen instead the working life because I prefer that.

  

  Pierre Boulez
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separated out from the rest of the population. Of course, it can be useful if you're writing an official letter, like trying to get a visa or something passed through Parliament. They're impressed by these things.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Rest

• There's truth in comedy, and that resonates with people of all races.

  

  Jessica Williams
  • People
  • Truth
  • Comedy

• People know my name and that can get me in the door but on the same hand people know my name and that can have them shut the door.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Hand
  • Door
  • Name

• I want to challenge people to find out who they are.

  

  Charlie Rose
  • People
  • Challenge

• People think skating would translate very easily to dancing, but it really doesn't. Dancing is a lot of fun and not as dangerous as being on the ice.

  

  Dorothy Hamill
  • People
  • Fun

• All people - African, European, American - worry about being different. But I've learned that the traits we'd rush to get rid of are the very ones that others desire. People always covet what they don't have. That's why we should look at ourselves every now and then and say, 'I'm proud of myself. I like the way I'm made.'

  

  Freida Pinto
  • Different
  • Why
  • American

• When John Travolta had the opportunity to do The Boy In The Plastic Bubble, he brought me and a couple other people from the movie to just be the students and have some parts, because he wanted to help us out. I thought that was really sweet.

  

  P. J. Soles
  • Movie
  • Help
  • Opportunity

• I've always loved silent movies. I recently saw 'Tilly's Punctured Romance' at the Academy, which is the first comedy made with Charlie Chaplin in 1914, and I sat there, and I couldn't believe that the entire audience of 2,000 people were laughing that hard from a movie made in 1914 - and there were no words; it was all faces.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Believe
  • Movie
  • Words

• People resist change; if they like something, then they want you to keep doing it over and over - but I think if you like what a particular band or artist does, then you should want to see what they're going to do next.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Thinking
  • Band
  • Artist

• I was fooling everyone by surrounding myself with funny people. But then I put myself out there - writing my own sketches, going on stage with nobody surrounding me - and for some reason people were still laughing.

  

  Carly Craig
  • Writing
  • Funny
  • Myself

• People don't like to follow pessimists.

  

  Bob Iger
  • People

• Because of the audience I get and the fact that these people aren't traditional comics buyers I don't think the comic industry looks at that and thinks that is a very respectable thing. I'm very used to it. I'm not the guy who wins awards and gets mentioned in magazines.

  

  Jhonen Vasquez
  • People
  • Guy

• If you're playing your character and you're running into all these people who know who you are and treat you in a way that doesn't pertain at all to the character, it takes you out of it more, so when you're alone in a city where people don't know you, you can kind of pretend even more and get into the head space of where you need to be.

  

  Chris Messina
  • Character
  • Running
  • City

• I am passionate about cinema in general. Eventually, I am making films for people to watch and enjoy, but somewhere, I have to be satisfied, too. I want to be happy after doing a film.

  

  Varun Dhawan
  • People
  • Happy

• Interviewing someone is a very proactive process and requires taking a lot of agency into your own hands to get past people's general normal self-preservation mode.

  

  Brandon Stanton
  • People
  • Past

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