Quotes on People

I like the character roles. Somewhere back there I really came to the conclusion in my mind that the difference between acting and stardom was major. And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in.

People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.

Not only do I have to live, right, I have to get some cash for my troubles - it's a scary thing, and people need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.

And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in.

I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving.

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.

When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.

Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.

Y'know, you can't please all the people all the time... and last night, all those people were at my show.

These are all novels, all about people that never existed, the people that read them it makes them unhappy with their own lives. Makes them want to live in other ways they can never really be.

How many times must a man look up Before he can see the sky? Yes, 'n' how many ears must one man have Before he can hear people cry? Yes, 'n' how many deaths will it take till he knows That too many people have died? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind.

In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.

A fella who accepts himself and is relaxed into who he is - that appeals to people.

The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own.