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People Quotes


"Where anti-Semitism persists, the well being of all our people is at risk."


"I can't even begin to tell you how many casting couches I was attacked on. Not just by casting people, but by stars."


"It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done."



"I've always been extremely lucky in playing with great people who knew much more than I did. That's how I got from there to here."


"Sometimes I think that I was forced to withdraw into depression because it was the only rightful protest I could throw in the face of a world that said it was alright for people to come and go as they please, that there were simply no real obligations left."


"What is it about the component of fire? People have written about it. People have wondered about it."


"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things."


"But I think it's very key that there's a plan for Haiti. And we have to begin to - as progressives and people who are concerned about Haiti and have been concerned about Haiti, we have to begin to build some sort of consensus, a movement around the Haiti that the Haitians envision."


"There's such good people out there where there filmmaking world is alive."



"As soon as a norm is established, people start questioning it, which is probably a good thing in the end."


"When you take a lot of stick you want to ram it down people's throats."


"Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth."


"All the writers and producers around us that gave us the environment where we could play. They were able to provide us with a place where we could take chances to play with things, go against the grain and do things that people don't always do."


"People in the fashion industry have used the press a lot more than people in the film industry, because you have nothing to sell except for the image: The image is everything."


"There's a certain edge about cruelty. If you're honest about it, most people wince, but say it had to be said."


"I understand the worries of many - not only here in this auditorium -, and some have already written to me to say that technical progress has lowered the threshold that stops people from helping themselves to protected works without the slightest embarrassment."



"People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media."


"Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job."



"I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret."


"There is nothing to indicate any biological need for an exclusive primary bond; nothing to suggest that mothering cannot be shared by several people."



"When I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me."


"We target people who understand that relationships are the lifeline of a small company."



"And I like the look on people's faces when I say I'm doing this movie called Pride and Prejudice and they kind of smile, and then I say I'm in a movie called Doom and they kind of do a double take and try and put the two things together. And they never quite manage to."


"The original judgment of the FBI, the Secret Service, and the CIA was that there were three shots. I don't think that convinced us except as a statement by people, many of them who were familiar with ballistics. This question troubled me greatly."


"Find your own specific voice in filmmaking and go for it. Either people will get it or they won't and that's what it's all about."



"People told me I couldn't kill Nicholson, so I cast him in two roles and killed him off twice."


"What scared me in that debate is that it's not about the ownership rules at all. The vast majority of people don't even know what the rules say, to be perfectly candid. Name all six of them."


"I'm an artist, and the need to get inside myself and be creative and be other people is a part of who I am. I don't imagine I'll abandon that completely."


"Well I think that the mind of a serial killer and the mind of the detectives represent the duality we face as people."


"The thing of it is though that's the only way people know you, they see you in that roll and they see you in person and they only know the perception of what you are."


"I always wanted attention, and I realized I could make people laugh."


"I have been with the record company and Tommy was there doing records with other people."
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