Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.
People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.
I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.
Writing songs is a profession; so it's not an attempt to take things from my interactions with other people and for some reason give them to a total stranger to listen to. I find it offensive to hear other people do that.
The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.
I'm interested in what bonds people together. You know, what brings us together in good ways? And there's not a lot known about that.
The attacks of which I have been the object have broken the spring of life in me... People don't realize what it feels like to be constantly insulted.
People who know me know that I'm not going to open my mouth and say something if I don't mean it. I'm very short and sweet. I'm old-school when it comes to it: I say what I mean and mean what I say, and then get off of it. It's simple as that.
It's an incredible thing when you are creating something in a moment with the other people on stage and with an audience, and you are all experiencing it together as it exists in that one night. It's a magical feeling.
I don't see a groundswell of people willing to raise gas taxes right now. That leaves fuel economy standards as the only effective tool we have as a nation to make a dent in our dangerous and ever growing consumption of oil.
Typically, actors overplay jargon or toss it away in an extravagant display of casualness. Real people hit the important parts hard.
We're introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go with their partner and have a proper night's sleep.
They do not depend upon mere legends and myths. They are not predicated on the false conception that the Emperor is divine and that the Japanese people are superior to other races.
I think people found out I'm just like anybody else. I've got problems, too.
So many people I know are like, 'Nobody listens to Mumford and Sons anymore.' But you know what? I love Mumford and Sons. And I will listen to those albums, and I love 'em.
I do notice that when I come in to meet casting people, they love that I'm Australian. Maybe it's our good work ethic.
This is probably why, my life is easier, and my family is very happy, because we never lie each other. This is probably all people supposed to feel each other, so be always in all of the world they'll be peace.
If a hundred people want autographs, sometimes you have to say no because you've got to get up for a 4 A.M. flight or something. In that sense, it really pisses me off when people think you've become a diva. It's not becoming a diva, it's because of the situation, I think.
What's fulfilling is being happy and being able to help other people. The simple things.
We like being private because when there is a downturn, as in 2001 and 2008, we do not reduce people. Also, we have flat decision-making. It's quick. We don't have to meet quarterly numbers, and it's all about excellence of work for the client.
Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation.
Film is fragmented and gets into lots of other people's hands. There are a lot of pleasures that theatre gives me. You get to perform uninterrupted.
Just do the math. In the next 50 to 75 years, people will be living to be 130 and 140. They'll be working until they're 100. It's incredible.
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
I never want to set a belief that a woman has to direct a woman's film, meaning she can't direct a man's film. If only films can be directed by people who are exactly the same as that, it's only gonna limit all of the women more.
We go on and on about our differences. But, you know, our differences are less important than our similarities. People have a lot in common with one another, whether they see that or not.
Providing for the common good, making people feel secure in their communities and homes - this is the central job of government. it's why all of us are here serving our state and our people.
It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.
I think there is a lot of overexplaining both in writing and acting. People don't need to be hit on the head.
The Saudi government uses a lot of British equipment to suppress their own people. But we're happy for our politicians to go on advertising trips to Saudi, selling our weapons at the trade conventions.
Things have got to add up to 100 points. The script is part of it, the character is part of it, the people I'm working with is the third part of it - and any combination of the three has got to add up to 100 points.
Because I'm a big guy, I was always playing the bad guy or whatever, but after I did 'The Blind Side,' where I played a father who's a really loving, likeable sort of person, a lot of those barriers were broken down. People saw me as something softer, not so much as a heavy anymore.
People have become aware that way that we've been eating is making us sick.
Back when we started, people didn't even know what a submarine sandwich was. The product was only sold in a few markets.
I come from a time when people like Bob Newhart and Bill Cosby told stories that were devastatingly funny without being off-color.
When you know people are really at peace with who they are and what they do, they collaborate and want to help you to improve.
