All Quotes

People say to me 'You're a big Hollywood star', and I find it so funny. I still feel as though I'm the girl from Golders Green. I lead such a boring, normal life. I still go shopping in Sainsbury's. If the ability to do that was taken away from me, I'd go barmy. You lose your freedom. Be careful what you wish for.
‐‐ Amanda Donohoe

People say to me, 'You're so lucky. You get to see the world.' But I don't. I go to the hotel and to the pools and back again. That's it.
‐‐ Michael Phelps

People say we are survivors but I don't see us as survivors of anything. We are still here, there's nothing that's come and tried to dislodge us. We just go about our business.
‐‐ Dave Mason

People say we're running out of energy. That's only true if we stick with these old 19th century technologies. We are awash in energy from the sunlight.
‐‐ Ray Kurzweil

People say, 'Well everybody needs a cellphone.' Well, what does 'need' mean? Do you need an iPad? How about a computer? A printer?
‐‐ Tim Griffin

People say, 'Well, whose career do you follow? Where do you see your career going? What movie do you want to do next?' And I can't tell you what type of movie I would go and do next. I would have to read the script and feel for a character. And if I feel in my gut for a character, I know that that's somebody I have to play.
‐‐ Blake Lively

People say, 'Well, why don't they get another job, why don't they pick themselves up by their bootstraps?' Well, the people that say that probably have the kind of jobs where they don't work that hard, so maybe they could have another job.
‐‐ Carolyn Chute

People say, 'Weren't you deprived of your childhood?' No way. I would not take anything back at all. Everything about it was great. I got to go places, meet people, play baseball against older kids and better competition. I had a great time.
‐‐ Bryce Harper

People say, 'What a discipline, painting so much.' I say, 'No, I love it.' Nothing amuses me as much as my work. To have discipline would be not to paint.
‐‐ Fernando Botero

People say, 'What are your hobbies?' I say, 'I've been doing shows ever since I was a kid.' When I left college, all I wanted to be was a musical theater chick. I auditioned tons. It just didn't pan out.
‐‐ Stephanie Courtney

People say 'what do you mean' when you talk about 'bringing down civilization.' What I really mean is depriving the rich of the ability to steal from the poor and depriving the powerful of the ability to destroy the planet. That's what I really mean.
‐‐ Derrick Jensen

People say, 'What if your name was Niki Smith?' Well, if Niki Smith lived the life I've lived, it would have great bearing.
‐‐ Niki Tsongas

People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel.
‐‐ Gail Porter

People say, 'What's the secret to a marriage?' There's no secret - I think you get lucky.
‐‐ Steve Carell

People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there.
‐‐ Meryl Streep

People say, 'Where do you live?' and I say that theoretically, I live in London, but basically that's just where I go to change my suitcase. Otherwise, I'm always flying somewhere.
‐‐ Olga Kurylenko

People say: 'Why do you want to play the straight man?' Well, it's because he gets to be in every scene.
‐‐ Jason Bateman

People say, 'Why don't you just paint with paintbrushes?' I say that I feel more connected to my painting using my skin. It's very tribal in a way - savage!
‐‐ Meredith Ostrom

People say 'Why would you learn Dutch? Nobody speaks it. Why not French?' Even the Dutch say that to me! I say because I want to live here, I think it's only common courtesy that I speak the language.
‐‐ Anthony Geary

People say 'Women's Wear' is a scandalous, gossipy publication. Sure we have gossip; we also have some very, very solid business stories. We are a creation of this business, which is fast, mean, tough, sometimes artistic, sometimes horrible.
‐‐ John Fairchild

People say women shouldn't have long hair over a certain age, but I've never done what everyone says.
‐‐ Jane Seymour

People say, 'Wow, you've achieved it all this year: two world championship wins and an Olympic gold medal.' And I think, 'Yeah, but how come I feel so unsatisfied and under pressure all over again?'
‐‐ Victoria Pendleton

People say writing is really hard. That's very unfair to those who are doing real jobs. People who work in the fields or fix roofs, engineers, or car mechanics. I think lying on your back working under an oily car, that's a job.
‐‐ Paul Theroux

People say you can get bored of the sunshine in L.A. No, you can't.
‐‐ Vinnie Jones

People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not.
‐‐ Tommy Lasorda

People say you can't teach writing, but I think that's nonsense.
‐‐ Tracy Kidder

People say you don't need a father to be successful. I take offense to that.
‐‐ Dwight Howard

People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale.
‐‐ John Bolton

People say, 'You have inspired me, you've given me courage...' They've gone so far as to say, 'You've changed my life!' And I would come back and say to my husband, 'I can't understand it - what kind of poor little life did she have if I had to come and change it?'
‐‐ Iris Apfel

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

People say you have to know when to retire, which is a dumb thing to say. If you want to go out on top, yeah, it becomes important when you quit. But I wasn't afraid of that. And I wasn't worried about getting fired. I knew the risk. To me, it's not an ego thing. I enjoy coaching. I enjoy helping people achieve something.
‐‐ Tom Landry

People say you have to work on your resentments. Yeah, no, I'm gonna hang onto them and they're gonna fuel my attack.
‐‐ Charlie Sheen

People say, 'You look like the girl who used to be on that show 'Angel' - they don't actually think I'm her.
‐‐ Amy Acker

People say, 'You look so great for your age,' and I say, 'OK, you can leave off the 'for your age' part. Can we all stop qualifying it?'
‐‐ Christie Brinkley

People say, 'You look to be in great shape for your age,' and I guess I am.
‐‐ Alex Trebek

People say you make your best work when you're in despair and all that, and at your lowest - but for me, I think happiness makes you positive, and I think that's a good creative place to write from.
‐‐ Paul Weller

People say you never remember anybody who dies in movies, and it's true, you don't. You don't even remember people who disappear.
‐‐ Danny Boyle

People say, You paid your dues, but I never paid any dues. It's always been a great trip.
‐‐ Richard Donner

People say, 'You're like Dickens', but I'm not like Dickens. Zadie Smith is a Dickensian writer because she's writing about society now, just as Dickens was writing about his society.
‐‐ Sarah Waters

People say, 'You're still breast-feeding, that's so generous.' Generous, no! It gives me boobs and it takes my thighs away! It's sort of like natural liposuction. I'd carry on breast-feeding for the rest of my life if I could.
‐‐ Helena Bonham Carter

People say you should do it this way, someone else suggests that, yes, there's financing, but maybe you should use this actor. And there are the threats, at the end - if you don't do it this way, you'll lose your box office; if you don't do it that way, you'll never get financed again... 35, 40 years of this, you get beat up.
‐‐ Martin Scorsese

People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's exactly the same: he's not playing for money any more, he's playing for enjoyment. Why go out at the top if it's going to make you miserable? I just wanted to play as long as I could.
‐‐ Ian Rush

People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare.
‐‐ Jo Brand

People say you shouldn't eat carbs, but that's crap. I just try to stay away from white ones.
‐‐ Marisa Miller

People say you've got to be OK with your own company, but tell me why?
‐‐ Robbie Williams

People say, 'You will be 30 years old; you're too old. You'll get your nose broke,' say dad's a pushy dad. You hear stupid things and put them out of your mind.
‐‐ Katie Taylor

People saying, 'Life didn't turn out the way I wanted it to.' Welcome to the club. I wanted to be the starting center-fielder for the Boston Red Sox, for chrissakes!
‐‐ Denis Leary

People see a hungry face, and they want to feed it; that's a natural response.
‐‐ Paul Theroux

People see a lot of huge stuff on Broadway, but there's always Off-Broadway energy and also shows that you can work in.
‐‐ Loretta Devine