If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.
I want to be a better person in every aspect. I really don't feel I've in anyway fulfilled my potential in every area of my life. But I'm optimistic.
I am a public person and I have my private life. It's important for me that my private life stay private, that what I share with the people is my public personality.
For me, I still have feelings for all of my ex-girlfriends. In different parts of my life, I would miss that person. There's something that drew me to that person, and I shared something with them.
When I sit and talk with a person, I'm not always paying attention. I'm looking at the person and saying, 'What is it about his or her life that appeals to me?'
For celebrities, privacy is utterly nonexistent. You are asked intrusive questions about your personal life. You can be photographed at any moment.
Watching children grow up, you learn a lot about life and about being a better person - you learn a lot about what's really important in the world and what isn't.
I have ventured to write more intimately about my personal life than is customary for a member of the Supreme Court, and with that candor comes a measure of vulnerability.
I am a very shy person who is just close to himself. So I would refrain from talking about my personal life.
If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
I love Tom Wilkinson and Tommy Lee Jones as well as Jessica Chastain. But the person I look up to most, not because I identify with her roles but because of who she is as a person, is Sissy Spacek.
Everything I do is personal. I have never made a movie that didn't have very strong personal resonance.
We must see the new Nigeria The Nigeria We Want we must accept personal responsibility to build it
A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible.
I think a photograph, of whatever it might be - a landscape, a person - requires personal involvement. That means knowing your subject, not just snapping at what's in front of you.
Chimpanzees have very strong preferences and aversions that are completely personality-linked. The people who are unsuccessful in working with chimpanzees are those who take this personally.
The reality is that every single person is individual and special. There has never been and will never be another person on the Earth like you!
Be the person you really are and not the person you'e allowed yourself to become," Kate said to Nikki. From 'Life Song
Sometimes I daydream about having a farm and a wife and some babies and watching the grass grow, but you have to meet the right person for that.
Can I “accept” a person’s anger at me as an authentic aspect of himself? Can I “accept” the person if his beliefs and values are different from mine?
All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog.
