- 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
- Think
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I've always felt like I'm on the outside. I think certain people judge you right away, and I've always been acutely sensitive to that. I'm fighting, whether it's accurate or not, a perception that I get of people thinking I'm dumb.
- Phone
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
It's getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. It still brings me up short to walk by somebody who appears to be talking to themselves.
- Denigrate
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.
- Think
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I was not influenced by Jack Benny, and people have remarked on my timing and Jack's timing, but I don't think you can teach timing. It's something you hear in your head.
- Life
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I certainly don't delude myself that there aren't certainly more important things to do in life than make people laugh, but I can't imagine anything that would bring me more joy.
- Money
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of money is spent trying to keep people alive who don't necessarily want to be alive.
- Nothing
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
When I was off TV, people would ask me to please come back, which I think was their way of saying, 'There's nothing out there for us.'
- Myself
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I just don't think most people put myself and Robert Frost in the same category.
- Fonda
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I always hated when the studios just kind of said that anybody can act. You look at people like Spencer Tracy, Henry Fonda - and I'm just talking about the male actors - there aren't a lot who can act. It's a very special talent, and I wish it were recognized as a very special talent.
- Nov 07, 2020
People are meant to be certain places, and I think I'm meant to be on a sound stage doing situation comedy.
- Difficult Thing
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I found the most difficult thing when you became successful - when I had the record album, it won Album of the Year - that you were cut off from the source of your material. Your material was everyday people, and you were kind of cut off from that, and you had to work at it.
- Cell Phone
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
With the advent of cell phones, especially with the very small microphone that attach to the cell phone itself, it's getting harder and harder I find, to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone.
- Funny
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I've always said people say on a dramatic show, 'I was crying. It was so emotional when he went and grabbed that little girl from a burning building and handed her over to her mother.' In comedy, the best thing you can say is, 'I think it's funny.'
- Person
- |
- Nov 07, 2020