If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college.
People tell me I look mournful. They say, 'Cheer up, Dan, it's not that bad!' Sometimes I just look into space, which freaks people out. If I was ever required to do anything other than look haunted, I could. I'm a happy person.
The great thing about having a bunch of kids is they just remind you that you're the person who takes them to go poop!
Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
I'm not really a control person, and I'm a big believer in collaboration. I like to have a friend.
I think cancer is a hard battle to fight alone or with another person at your side, but I will say having someone to pick you up when you fall, stand by your side through every appointment and delivery of bad news, is priceless.
Certainly Nancy Reagan had an extraordinary effect on her husband. I'm truly not sure that, say, Laura Bush had that much effect on the Bush administration. She certainly, you know, seems to be a nice person who I think the public likes. But I can't really put my finger on any huge impact she's had.
It had to happen to me sometime: sooner or later, I would have to lose sight of the cutting edge. That moment every technical person fears - the fall into knowledge exhaustion, obsolescence, techno-fuddy-duddyism - there was no reason to think I could escape it forever.
I don't think I should ask my kids to inherit my business, because they can't start where I did: I was from the street. I'm a very different make of person. I've been a fighter all my life.
Kids don't see me as an oldies person when I go out on stage. They see me as an energy force.
It can be summed up in one sentence. Does this person have something to teach my students? No one has ever let us down.
I think you are who you are, and your kids will see who you are. So you'd better be a good person, because they are going to see it, and that's going to shape them. They are going to become you.
As an actor, I'm very much a company person. And this also goes through my life: I have a dread of responsibility. I like someone else to be in charge.
Directing is more comfortable for me because, as an actor, there's always something inherently false. Because I'm not that person.
To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.
I'm an energetic person. I work hard.
A person who can go out and get 40 is going to get a lot more respect than somebody who goes out and holds somebody to two points. It's just the nature of the game. It doesn't bother me.
Hank's the most amazing person on the planet, and if it's not him, there's no one else I want to be married to.
Usually, when you are an ethnic person or a trans person, in your average, everyday, unsophisticated television show, you are there for that reason. And they clearly justify and overexplain why. You very rarely see a transgender actor playing the part of a grocery-store clerk without having to say, 'Oh, look at that trans person.'
I think people change, but the media, they never allowed me to change. They never allowed me to be a better person.
Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.
First of all, I'm no better than the next person.
Jokes that are gratuitously offensive are synonymous with bad writing to me. I'm offended as a writer first and as a person second.
The person who comes up to you and makes the most noise and is the most intrusive is invariably the person in the room who has no respect for you at all, and it's really all about them.
I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.
What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives.
Girls are telling me to take my shirt off. It's like, 'Hello! I'm a person, too!'
I'm a very ambitious person. I've been like this from a very young age. As early as 12 years old, I used to have panic attacks because I needed to know my life plan.
We're a country of five-second sound bites and 30-second commercials. Eight years of one person is just too much.
I'd rather play with 10 people and just get penalized all the way until we have to do something else rather than play with 11 when I know that right now that person is not sold out to be a part of this team.
I am a politically motivated person, and that will come through in the music.
There was a person who thought I was OK. I wasn't a complete dope. I got some confidence out of that.
You never know what a person is going through, regardless of how much money they make or however great a life you think they're living.
For me, I try to see difficulties as a way of expanding and growing as a person inhabiting this planet.
I'd like to think that, at the end of the day, you can look at the things that I made as a young person and the things I'll continue to make as I get older and they'll be consistently interesting and soulful things, and if you like them they'll be a part of your dimension, as well.
As a person, I love dressing up. I wear make-up when I am meeting a friend or going for a meeting or even when I am out for a coffee for that matter.
