- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
People Quotes
Quotes about people, privacy, and human nature.
This page collects quotes touching on people in different senses - novelists describing how characters take on independent vitality, and technologists warning how easily people's movements and data can be tracked. It's a broader mix than a single theme, much like Like Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing that's really delightful is my books tend to attract people who are funny, so I get the benefit of people writing me with things that crack me up.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I teach seminars, I tell people, 'Your stuff has to look like something that's out there, because otherwise nobody will take a chance on you.'
- Depression
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like most people, I woke up one day to find that everyone I knew was taking antidepressants, and since I wasn't, I figured that I must be the cause of their depression.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Hollywood there's a great openness, almost a voracious appetite for new people. In England there's a great suspicion of the new. In cultural terms, that can be a good thing, but when you're trying to break into the film industry, it's definitely a bad thing.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very happy where 3-D is going, which is that it's becoming a choice - and thankfully, most people are still choosing 2-D.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I spent my time worrying about what other people would think of my work, I would be too self-conscious to write.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoy playing other people. It's a great job and it's challenging. I couldn't do a desk job.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get to meet fantastic people, and I get to go through so many emotions. For me, I have a craving for that. When I'm acting, I feel great. It's not to be famous.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've done quite a few adverts. I've also done some presenting and acting work in Spain. I did a lot of Spanish education videos for people wanting to learn English.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
What surprises me is when people give me their mobile number. The other day, someone on a bus asked if I swear. I said I try not to, but of course I'm just a normal person.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've done a lot of pictures that are ensemble, and I've not always liked the people I was working with, but that doesn't make any difference because you do the job, and often it turns out to be a great ensemble even if you didn't particularly really like anybody.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a lot of directors over the years have cast me because they see something of another generation in me: you know, certain people look like they've come from the 19th century. Because I have classical background I suppose that is more suitable to patriarchal roles and easily infuses them.
- Golf
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people want to retire; I couldn't. You don't retire in our business. What, play golf and watch television? Oh, please.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020