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People always want to talk about who I was, but I've always been singing, always been experimenting with pop music.
As a leader you should always start with where people are before you try to take them to where you want them to go.
The thing is, comedy's gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and fakeness and cleverness.
Some of my favorite characters that I've played have been very pompous because I love making fun of pompous people.
The truth is I've worked a lot of things people would consider shitty jobs but I've never really hated any of them.
It's not just people in Hollywood: I'm sure everyone in the world thinks, 'What would be it like if I won an Oscar?
You have to think about how you're going to present yourself and want people, wanna show your stuff and who you are
Most people's personalities and roles are locked by the time they're nine or 10. I think there's something to that.
Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.
When you give a speech you don't go through a laundry list, you talk about the things that you think are important.
For most people this is not a conscious process, it's an inner pull that takes place, that simply draws them there.
A lot of people come to L.A. looking for something. What I came here for, I realize now, is to be okay with myself.
God wants every local church to be the first place people think to go when they've really messed up...not the last.
sanity, in my opinion, is an achievement. I have seen very few well-balanced people in my life who were not dunces.
So many people spend so much time on things that aren't important. It's the difference between success and failure.
Ask someone you'd like to know to list five people they would most like to meet. It will tell you a lot about them.
A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.
Using the Internet as as vehicle to work with people is fascinating. It's sort of a Pandora's box of energy for me.
Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.
Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That's right. Others come in to govern for them.
I think a lot of people, they don't love their jobs but they don't hate them enough to quit. So they're like, "Eh."
I have committed many sins in my life. But stealing money from the government, from the people, is not one of them.
In real life, what scares me is politicians, corporations and people that think they know what the world should be.
Most people are far more concerned that they can control their own bodies than they are about petitioning Congress.
In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range
One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
You do these movies, you give it out to the world and you really have no idea how people are going to react to you.
God is at work in the world, and He wants you to join Him....You are the only Christian some people will ever know.
So many people don't know that God loves them. They feel, 'Why would God love me? Why would He be interested in me?
I'd say people that really inspired me at first were like, Dustin Hoffman, Jim Carrey... serious Jim Carrey though.
I'm horrified to admit that I just love Salinger. I was devastated to find out that other people feel the same way.
I think the minute you mention death, people run for the hills - unless it's heavy metal. People do not like death.
The world is filled with invisible realities. But, if people do not see or hear, then these realities do not exist.
If people can live openly and be equal, then you have to have a pretty strong reason to say they can't get married.
Why you need a reason for everything? Reason is something people say to make sense of things that don't make sense.
I think that what a lot of people tell you, a lot of the job of the director is having an opinion about everything.
People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the problem - there is no meaning in everything.
Don't give me any money, don't give me any people, but give freedom, and I'll give you a movie that looks gigantic.
If you want to be rich watch what rich people do everyday and do it. And watch what poor people do and don't do it.
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
Plenty of people who survive tragedies end up ambivalent about danger--frightened by it, yet strangely drawn to it.
Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life. People only see what they are prepared to see.
I want my fiction to feel real most of the time, so it makes sense to pay attention to life and to how people work.
Directors tend to be more underrated than overrated because it's a quiet job and people don't really understand it.
You have people who know you are competent enough to do your job and then you have the ones that just hover around.
When one historical period is replaced by another, there is always a group of people left over from the old society
65% of people say that cheating on your income tax is worse than cheating on your spouse. The other 35% were women.
I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.
Now with tabloids and seeing people walking around in sweats pumping gas you're like, 'Okay, they're just like us.'
When people have good energy, I feel it. And generally I feel that people do like me. And that makes me very happy.