A creative person, a very creative person, is always alone, impatient and frustrated.

Show me a university which is a hotbed of thin-skinned offence-taking, where every unacceptable idea is policed and every person who happens to hold one is hounded out of a job, and I will show you a...

Presents are symbolic. When you give them in your personal life, they should show that you are paying attention to the person to whom you're giving them.

I'm much nicer in person than on Twitter.

It's very important to me that every person takes away their own meaning from a song, and it's why I don't always love spelling out what a song is about for somebody.

How someone treats a waiter or doorman can tell you so much about a person.

I don't think we need to agree with anyone in order to love the person. The command for Christians to love the other person, to be benevolent and beneficent toward them, is independent of what the...

I'm a pretty upbeat person. I think I sometimes get cast as these brooding types because I bring light and joy, which hopefully makes them more likable.

I was really nerdy. Compared with my sisters, I often felt like a boring person because I lived so much in my head and in books.

You have to have some connection, empathy, or chemistry with the person you're playing and playing with.

Having had cancer, one important thing to know is you're still the same person at the end. You're stripped down to near zero. But most people come out the other end feeling more like themselves than...

If you choose to do things that you are passionate about, you will not only do them better, but most importantly, you'll be a significantly happier person.

I met Metro on FaceTime. In person, was in the studio. That was when we had already decided we were gonna do a mixtape together. There were three keyboards around him. Once I started to say, 'Hey, let...

Media organizations are frequently criticized for a heartless approach to the news. Stories that are damaging to a person's reputation make the front page just as quickly - and many would say even...

I always tell people that to be the funny person in a Steve Martin movie is like getting a call that Keith Moon wants you to play drums on his record. He should be playing drums on his record.

I'm a very active person. I'm a big tomboy, throwing around a football, hiking... all that stuff I love.

Personally I support 14,000 kids in Zambia - I feed and clothe them - but I don't hold press conferences about it. I don't do it so you'll think what a nice person I am; it's private.

The art of acting is to pitch good. You do the pitching and hope that the other person catches the ball and does some good pitching back to you.

I'm a very lazy person by nature. I have to be really engaged, and then I go straight from lazy to obsessive. I couldn't study chemistry, but I could memorize all the books for Dungeons and Dragons....

I'm not the type of person to have a schadenfreude.

The critic is a genius at one remove; he is not unlike an actor on the stage, and incarnates in his mind, as the actor embodies in his person, another's work; only thus does he understand art, realize...

The first person besides my mother who believed in me was a man whose last name I never knew. He was my boss, the manager of Swenson's Ice Cream shop.

One person's barbarity is another person's civilisation.

It's up to the person who's being creative to find ways to emerge and shake up the world of wealth.

I hate sitting around a table and talking about what a play might mean. I'm the person who's always like, 'Can we get up on our feet and just do it?'

I don't think that any person can fix FEMA. I think FEMA needs a total restructuring. I think it needs to be taken from scratch and redone. The regulations are outdated; the rules are outdated.

I don't like being too serious. I'm the type of person that, if the mic isn't in the right place when I go on, I just move it. Other people, they'll be all frantic. I'm more relaxed.

I can be a cruel person.

I am not a religious person, but I am spiritual. But I don't believe in things like guilt.

When I write about animals, I use anthropological techniques and the language you would use for a person. You don't have to anthropomorphize animals, just acknowledge their individuality.