Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicolas Cage

One of the things that's interesting to me is I find things like caffeine and stunts actually relax me. When they're putting a bit of gel on my arm and lighting me on fire, or when I'm about to go into a high-speed car chase or rev a motorcycle up pretty fast, I find everything else around me slows down.

Leonard Mlodinow

One of the ways we interact with other human beings and form social bonds is through touch, and probably most of us are not aware of the extreme importance of touch.

Ann Landers

One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closes friends; if they seem OK, then you're the one.

Kevin Costner

One person doesn't have to shoulder all the responsibility for why a film does or doesn't do well.

Thomas S. Monson

One sees a blatant disregard for the precious souls of mankind.

Harold H. Greene

People are intimidated in court, and I try to make them more comfortable.

Andy Stanley

People are not on a truth quest; they are on a happiness quest. They will continue to attend your church - even if they don't share your beliefs - as long as they find the content engaging and helpful.

Dave Eggers

People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange.

Ralph Nader

People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.

Carmen Electra

People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama.

Steve Largent

People are very interested in having access to wireless data while they are on a plane.

Mike Mills

People ask 'How does doing a film compare to doing an ad?' Well, when you're doing a commercial you don't have to sell tickets. You have a captured audience. Which is actually completely rare and great; it gives you a lot of freedom. When you make a film, you have to do advertisements for the film.

David Sedaris

People ask if I miss it, but they don't understand that American culture is so ubiquitous that there's nothing to miss. I don't see myself moving back. It's not that I hate the United States. I just always thought it would be a shame not to live in a foreign country.

John McWhorter

People banging away on their smartphones are fluently using a code separate from the one they use in actual writing, but a code it is, to which linguists are currently devoting articles.

Bob Ehrlich

People believed what I said was what I believed.

Saul Bellow

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

Ian Fleming

People do connect me with James Bond simply because I happen to like scrambled eggs and short-sleeved shirts and some of the things that James Bond does, but I certainly haven't got his guts nor his very lively appetites.

Carrot Top

People do give me a hard time about my hair because it's orange and it's big.

George Matthew Adams

People do not want what we have in our pockets half as much as they want what is in our hearts. If we combine both, intelligently, however, according to our means, we give wisely and well.

Paul Hogan

People don't hassle me. It's always very friendly anywhere in the world.

Billie Holiday

People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.

Susan Estrich

People don't vote for vice president, they vote for president.

David Cameron

People feel that the EU is heading in a direction that they never signed up to. They resent the interference in our national life by what they see as unnecessary rules and regulation. And they wonder what the point of it all is. Put simply, many ask 'why can't we just have what we voted to join - a common market?'

Tom Scholz

People have been convinced that growth for growth's sake is a good thing.

Anne McCaffrey

People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?

Martina Navratilova

People in the States used to think that if girls were good at sports their sexuality would be affected. Being feminine meant being a cheerleader, not being an athlete. The image of women is changing now. You don't have to be pretty for people to come and see you play. At the same time, if you're a good athlete, it doesn't mean you're not a woman.

Graeme Base

People kept asking, 'What's your market?' I've got no idea at all other than me, an eleven year old kid in a 56-year-old body. But there are a lot of us out there.

Terry Zwigoff

People like light and silly, and they like stuff that's really energetic, and you get a character in a film bouncing around and screaming, people laugh. That's all it takes. I don't find that funny. To me, what's funny is dialogue and nuance of character and performance.

Raymond E. Feist

People like rules, or at least the appearance of rules, even in fantasy.

John Cheever

People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.

Regina King

People love to see themselves on screen in a way that makes sense and seems on point.

Katherine Heigl

People make mistakes - they say things they shouldn't have or didn't necessarily mean. But I strongly believe in consequences. If there are none, someone might feel like they've gotten away with something, or that what they said couldn't have been that bad.

Barry Humphries

People only watch my shows for me, and those shows have remained evergreen long after the guests are forgotten.

Aimee Mullins

People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that's not the case; our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.

Richard M. Nixon

People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Michael Ian Black

People recognize me, but they don't know where from. Today I was in the elevator and somebody asked me if I worked for his company.

Richard Avedon

People — running from unhappiness, hiding in power — are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs.

Mehmet Oz

People say their weight is genetic. But it turns out that people who are overweight don't just have overweight kids. They also have overweight pets. That's not genetic.

George Best

People say you have to hit rock bottom, and, I can tell you, almost dying is as rock bottom as it gets.

Pat Benatar

People's lives change dramatically over such a long time period, and I think that if you're still vital, and you're still interested in writing and things like that, of course your music evolves and reflects where you are in your life.

Bob Iger

People still love a good story, and I don't think that will change.

Hilary Duff

People talk worse about people than they talk good about people, because a lot of people like drama.

Ric Ocasek

People tell me all the time that I look forbidding or aloof. That doesn't bother me much - I am fairly private, withdrawn, and... distant, I guess. But, um, I think that's okay.

Edward Burns

People that went to art house theatre have more options, I used to go, but now think any movie can be delivered in a red envelope three months after it's released so why not watch it on my flat screen in the comfort of home.

Marjane Satrapi

People, they think that animation is a style. Animation is just a technique. It's like, people, they think that comics is a style, like comics is a superhero story. Comic is just a narration, and is a medium, you can say any kind of story in comics and you can say of any kind of story in animation.

Stephen Merchant

People think all fame is the same, but being on BBC Two from time to time does not make you Warren Beatty. I honestly can't impress that upon people enough.

Jerry Lewis

People think I'm against critics because they are negative to my work. That's not what bothers me. What bothers me is they didn't see the work. I have seen critics print stuff about stuff I cut out of the film before we ran it. So don't tell me about critics.

Samantha Stosur

People think that there is so much money in tennis, but the reality is unless you're ranked in about the top 50 you don't earn much at all. It is hard to support yourself travelling the world, to be away from home most of the year and to pay for a coach to help you become a better player.

Mark Harmon

People think what you are doing is real, on a TV show.

Dennis Crowley

People used to pooh-pooh the idea of a check-in, saying that this wasn't interesting. But when you have 3 billion of those data points, you can take any latitude and longitude anywhere in the world, and I'll tell you what is interesting now, 20 minutes from now, and 6 hours from now.