Some people enjoy celebrity. I admire those who do, because if you're going to go through it, you might as well enjoy it.
I do have a few personalities. When people started making a big deal out of it, I started making names for these people.
Having people wait outside of my house sort of gives me a panic attack. I'm a believer in the concept that people should not be followed and photographed everywhere.
The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether or not they are well-educated - is that intelligent people can handle subtlety.
Sometimes when people can't speak English, they hum the melody instead of singing along. Having 20,000 people humming your song is incredible.
People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up
I take jobs with people I admire, people with incredible talent who aren't necessarily big sellers.
People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me.
I feel like being an artist and being an activist are separate things; I know some people who feel very differently.
In a play, you dictate pace, you dictate rhythm, you dictate when people look at you, when people should be looking at something else. In film, the editor does that.
In the U.K., I came from a talent show. I was watched by millions of people, so instantly when I came out from the show, people knew who I was.
People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.
Successful people achieve because they think beforehand when it works & think afterwards when it doesn't work.
Successful people do not have a part-time mindset nor a full-time mindset, but a lifetime mindset.
President Bush says he is concerned about the Iraqi people, but if Iraqi people are dying in numbers, then American policy will be challenged very strongly.
Some people think that as the Chinese economy becomes more and more capitalistic it will inevitably become more democratic.
I know victims of domestic abuse. I know what it takes for people to get out, and I also know why people stay. It's heartbreaking.
Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people.
I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people.
Facts are, insurance ratings are really dependent on the notion that some people are higher risk than others.
Young people deserve stable employment opportunities and not mountains of debt. When young people can access the middle class, America is strengthened.
