Quotes About People

Sometimes photographing people is like pulling teeth, trying to get some sort of personality.

The water issue is critically related to climate change. People say that carbon is the currency of climate change. Water is the teeth.

The basic thing you teach your children is to respect other people. It is not rocket science; it's as simple as brushing your teeth.

I've got 50,000 Facebook fans inside of Iran, and Facebook is banned in Iran. I think the people who follow 'Humans of New York' the most after New York City is Tehran. I have a really special affection for the Persian people because they've really taken to my work.

I'd like a telescope, but I probably wouldn't look at the stars that often. I'd definitely be looking into people's flats most of the time.

Television is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room.

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.

Trying to be a sort of intellectual in the public arena is very irritating to people. They think, 'Why is this bugger on television?'

Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look.

If you come up to me in the street, I am going to be delighted to meet you. I became a television star to entertain people, to spread goodness into the world.

I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.

Coming back to a television series puts you back in the limelight and gives you a platform for your ideas. If you're not acting on a series, you don't get the ability to communicate to people.

Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.

When a television show like 'Scandal' becomes the biggest show in recent history, suddenly advertisers and networks want to jump on that. And what it's showing is that people want to see diversity.

Normally, I think the people you would use on your first film, it would be a real struggle to bring them with you onto your television show. I just brought every single person with and expanded my little indie film world.

It's a curious thing about celebrity: being somebody who was one of the stars of one of the most popular television shows in history offers an opportunity. I look at it as an ambassadorial opportunity at times, where I can go to places and have the opportunity to do things and meet people that other people don't have.

When one lives in a society where people can no longer rely on the institutions to tell them the truth, the truth must come from culture and art.

The people say I have to change? Well, the people have to tell me what I should do to change.

You just have to keep the same mentality of trying to prove yourself every single day. But it's a lot of easier when you have people telling you how bad you are than when people are telling you how good you are.

I'm telling you there is hope. I have seen it, but it does not come from the governments or corporations. It comes from the people.

I probably enjoy campaigning more than most other people in public office because I like people and I enjoy going out there and telling people what I've done.

Obviously when it comes to the question of telling stories about other people's lives in a situation as political as South Africa, you get to be political.

I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that.

I remember telling people I booked this job; they were like, 'What is it called?' I was like, 'Peaky Blinders,' and they were like, 'What?' It sounds ridiculous, but I like it because there's an instant intrigue about the name.