I am an actor. I am an artist. I am a daughter. I am a sister. I am a partner. I have a past that some people may not agree with, but it does not define who I am.

I’m a huge fan of the films of the ’70s and even into the ’80s, Sidney Lumet, all those films that used what was going on in people’s lives as drama. And not only are you entertained, but hopefully have a greater understanding of your world coming out of it.

My fans are so amazing, dedicated, and nice. I’m nothing. It’s just my beginning, and these people keep appreciating my work. It’s a great experience.

I did four movies where I gained, like, fifty pounds. I had curly hair, and I had all of this facial hair. I had put on all this weight for these movies, and I did four or five of them back-to-back. Then I cut the weight and I got fit again. I cut my beard and I took away the mustache, and people were like, ‘What are you doing?’

My heart always warms to people who do not come to see me, especially Americans, to whom it seems to be more of an effort.

Lobby – a peculiar institution for bribing, bulldozing, and corrupting the legislators who were supposed to represent the people’s interests.

I just think that when my confidence meets other people’s insecurity, that equals Kanye’s arrogant.

I do believe that with more worldwide influences, the coming of the internet age and digital media, the flow of information is far greater, and people’s understanding can expand more easily.

The writer’s task is to reveal the hidden connections between people and the world, to uncover the universal in the particular.

People threw their elderly relatives into the snow and granny flats became dining rooms, while they tied up miniature vegetables and sprayed raspberry vinegar like tomcats on the pull

Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the product of the gun. The gun which produces the vote should remain its security officer – its guarantor. The people’s votes and the people’s guns are always inseparable twins.

A desire not to butt into other people’s business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom.

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends

The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness

Don’t be intimidated by other people’s opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want to do.

The Americans are a very lucky people. They’re bordered to the north and south by weak neighbors, and to the east and west by fish.

Do not worry about why problems exist in the world – just respond to people’s needs.

But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people’s entry into the main current of world-events.

There is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.

It’s the little things that smooths people’s roads the most.