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People Quotes
"I grew up with Scientology - my parents at one point were clerical. It's a pragmatic philosophy, not merely a belief system. Yeah, it's had media exposure because certain luminaries do Scientology, but millions of people do it who are not celebrities. It's not a threat or some cult."
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"There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway."
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"Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people."
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"When I used to go to Elvis's house was always a nightmare trying to get into the house because of so many fans outside the gate and he really couldn't go anywhere without sneaking in or doing something because people just wanted to be around him and to be with him."
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"Even Colin Powell who was everywhere before he became secretary of state, just stopped going out. I think part of it was he didn't want to be viewed suspiciously by the other people in the White House who rarely go anywhere."
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"Advertising says to people, 'Here's what we've got. Here's what it will do for you. Here's how to get it.'"
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"Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade."
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"The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children."
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"I don't think people realize the extent to which TV networks are hurt when they carry public broadcasting. I think the estimate is that they lose a half-million dollars for a half day's programming."
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"People who do not see the terrible things therefore do not see the beautiful things, either."
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"We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we'll do it not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that bring people to their senses."
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"The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation, we deprive them of their rights of citizenship, and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans."
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"Could people be trained to be less gullible? Or are you as stuck with gullibility as you are with skin colour?"
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"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas."
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"People go 'You look a lot like Minnie Driver.' Once I said, 'Thanks, Minnie is a great actress.' But, it blew up in my face. This person said, 'Nah, didn't like the last movie she did.'"
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"All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They."
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"Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down."
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"We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?"
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"We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free."
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"Actually, I think most people accept the existence of qualia."
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"So, it, of course, makes one wonder how many other people there might be who are completely innocent, who have been sent by the U.S. to countries where they've been interrogated, and in some instances it seems tortured."
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"I refuse to be held responsible for bringing back a wave of pasty-faced people into the world."
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"Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it."
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"A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position."
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"People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. They don't consider it servitude."
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"Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure."
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"Playing in front of an audience was just such a turn-on for me, and you have 200 people in the audience and it's like doing live theater. And filming something that goes to millions of people several weeks later, it's an interesting dynamic."
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"I have numerous people who have expressed a willingness to be plaintiffs."
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"War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other."
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