Person Quotes

I don't have regrets, there are only lessons. You learn from them, and you become a better person.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

Once you get into your stride, the camera becomes like another person in the room. It's like being in a very small theatre where there is no getting away with anything because the audience is centimetres away from you.

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.

I see only defects because I'm not following the scene as it were. I'm not following the other person. It's like the best thing to clarify this is the theater.

A theater person should know what holds an audience and what does not.

One of the people that I respect the most now, a person I think has done a heck of a lot for this world as a leader, is Margaret Thatcher. She helped create a world that offers us a lot of excitement as we look to the next century.

People go 'You look a lot like Minnie Driver.' Once I said, 'Thanks, Minnie is a great actress.' But, it blew up in my face. This person said, 'Nah, didn't like the last movie she did.'

I want to let my fans get to know a little about me. I'm very thankful for everything they've done for me so, of course, I'm going to let them into my world a bit. But I really am a very private person, and I love kepping my life to myself - that's how I've always been.

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.

An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.

It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.

A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. If you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear is the booing.

I like, for instance, 'Serpico.' I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could - I could embody him. I could, you know, I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It's almost like a painter having a model to become.

When you work on a text of a lesser quality, as the interpreter or the delivery person, you are obliged to try to fill it out as you see so many people do in lesser work.

I'm forever testing myself. As a person and as an actor, I have no sense of competition.

I hate tests. It's a really lousy way to judge a person's ability.

Almost every person over 45, and definitely those who have ever smoked, should have a spirometry test.

Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and cons of an argument, and carefully figure them out, and he might test them in public.

And from the moment that we realized it was a terrorist attack, there isn't an agent or a support person in the FBI that wasn't committed to bringing to justice those who were responsible for this.

I don't know if I was a desirable person, not just physically but emotionally and mentally and intellectually. I still have a long way go and a lot to learn, but I'm on my way, I don't think I'm terribly attractive, but I'm comfortable with my looks.

I was terribly shy when I was growing up, I really wasn't confident with other people and I think I was always afraid of up or not being this very cool, amazing person that I wanted to be.

It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.