Person Quotes

To be entirely honest, I am an extremely confident person, and I don't think I would have gotten into this business if I felt that I wasn't going to succeed and I intend to be in this business, for the rest of my life.

You've got to be a disciplined person if you want to succeed both in sport and in life.

If you blithely do what you do and you're good at what you do, and try to be a decent person, you can succeed.

I was the most subtle person in the world.

It's always obvious to me when someone is looking at me with an idea of who I am and hoping that that's the person I'm going to be. No matter how subtle it is, it's there, and you want to give them who they really want. But it ain't me.

I'll see a photograph of a character and try to copy them on to my face. I think I'm really observant, and thinking how a person is put together, seeing them on the street and noticing subtle things about them that make them who they are.

No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy.

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

I just don't think one person has that much to contribute to any subject.

My idea of an educated person is one who can converse on one subject for more than two minutes.

When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.

I believe I am a person with unusual talents. I think I'd be a liar or stupid if I were to deny that.

I'm not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and are really sad at home? I'm really kind of stupid at home and more serious in public.

You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At the same time, I don't believe in being so rigid about controlling what happens either.

When you're fighting with a stunt person, your intent is to miss.

As much as the next person, I want to be approved of, but I'm not greedy for that stuff.

I don't know, as long as I get to evolve and grow as an actor and as a person, that's the stuff I'm after.

It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.

It's like, on my solo stuff, every single person who buys the record, gets it. On the other stuff, the masses... when you have a hit on the radio, not everyone's going to get it. They are going to buy it for the hit.

I don't particularly dislike any kind of person that might be reading my stuff. They like it and that's cool, but I don't do the work for any kind of group in particular, except for hobos, who just plain kick ass and light up my life.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

I study to learn, to be an educated person.

I know General Grant better than any other person in the country can know him. It was my duty to study him, and I did so day and night, when I saw him and when I did not see him, and now I tell you what I know, he cannot govern this country.

The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study.

I'm not really a bird person or an Audubon guy who studies them, but as I was around them, they interested me.

There's this inherent screenplay structure that everyone seems to be stuck on, this three-act thing. It doesn't really interest me. To me, it's kind of like saying, 'Well, when you do a painting, you always need to have sky here, the person here and the ground here.' Well, you don't.

I'm the most stubborn person I know.

When you deal with a person who's experiencing dementia, you can see where they're struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how they're trying to remember.

It is setting goals and trying to be a business person, but at the same time not losing sight of who you are writing songs for and what your goals are as a songwriter. So believe me, if you think I've got it down I don't it is a constant struggle.

I go to make art as who I am as a person. The fact that I am a woman comes into play maybe in the kinds of things I'm interested in or in the way I structure a canvas.