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My own inclination is to skew towards humor. They say that some people view life as a comedy, others as a tragedy. Me? Comedy all the way.
The loyalty rate isn't that high. I could have a big hit, then put out the next single, and they say, Oh yeah, who are you? Prove it again.
I am an Addictive Personality, they say, a natural slave to passion - and many Doctors have warned me against it. I am a High-risk Patient.
The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say.
I am quite a shy person. You say that to people, and they say, 'You do interviews, speeches. How can you be shy?' But, fundamentally, I am.
I love it when people come up to me and they say a line. Like, you know, 'My name is Indigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.'
Sometimes people stop me on the street and they say 'when are you going to make the next 'Zanaka' and it's what I really didn't want to do.
Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git.
I love acting because it's a bit of an escape. It gives you the ability to reinvent yourself. They say that acting is the shy man's revenge.
In my job, people tell you that all the time: 'This shoot was great. You look amazing.' But you never know what they say when you turn away.
They say great themes make great novels. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women.
They say it figures MTV would do such a vulgar, awful, horrible show and they completely miss that it's satirizing the people who watch MTV.
Incongruity, they say, is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe it's because everybody can feel superior to me. I honestly don't know.
If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies; they say the United States won the war and saved the world.
What I know from my friends who are cops is they keep their houses very clean, because they say you never know if you're coming back or not.
When they say you're the best, I always remember that the majority of the audience probably thinks someone else should have gotten the award.
They say that every writer, they write about himself, and I think that to a certain extent that is true. But also we are creators of fiction.
I don't ever want to part with any of my shoes. They all have a special place in my heart because they say something about who you are today.
They say making laws is like making sausages. You shouldn't watch. It's the same for acting, especially for the actor who works unconsciously.
It's not like I sit around watching my movies again and again, but I've never quite believed actors when they say they don't watch themselves.
I have spent a lot of time in the art world, and I guess I do listen to how people speak. I'm interested in what they say and how they say it.
If you're going out for a meal with friends, and they say they can't afford to go to such and such a place, you can't force them to afford it.
I hear from everybody, and they say 'Joe, nowhere but in Washington do they think not working together makes sense.' We're not hired to fight.
The truth is that, to me, a likeable character is a character that is really flawed, so I don't know what people mean when they say 'likable.'
I know folks all have a tizzy about it, but I like a little bourbon of an evening. It helps me sleep. I don't much care what they say about it.
They say that when a woman wants to end a relationship, she cuts off all of her hair. I've done that twice in my marriage but am still married.
You know they say the most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip.
They say 6 million people see you when you act in a film; it may only be 600 in a play. But the effect on the 600 may be truer and more lasting.
I get a lot of calls from families and people who have served time and they say, 'Thank you, Sheriff. I hate the tents.' That's music to my ears.
I like PETA as a group for many reasons, but one of the reasons that I admire them is that they say and do the things that other groups won't do.
When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves.
Everyone has this perception that the bloggers, they say horrible things about you and they hide behind their computers where you can't see them.
They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.
It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.
Well, you know what they say in Hollywood - the most important thing is being sincere, even if you have to fake it.
People mess up. They say things when their guard is down.
They say that no one walks in L.A., and it's definitely true, and I'm embracing that.
A lot of big whoever producers, they come with a song and they say, 'Sing this,' and I'm not that girl.
Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
People like to compare something to something that they know. Even with Chris Rock, they say he's like Richard Pryor or Eddie Murphy.
Often you find the character through the things they say. How they talk about other people, how they describe themselves - which is very rare.
How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.
What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.
They say I'm worth either €200 million, €100 million, €50 million or €10 million, but that's something between God, the HMRC and myself.
Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.
They say to never underestimate anyone, but they don't tell you to overestimate people either, so I'm just going to do me.
They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
They say I spend too much money, so they take it and put it away for me. What do I spend it on? Oh, old records and presents and things.
I'm someone, the same as my girlfriends, when they say what do you think about this, I don't always say they look fabulous. I say what I think.