Walter Neff: Do I laugh now, or wait 'til it gets funny?
Deputy Pell: Funny, their kids are so cute.
Barbara: It's been a funny sort of day, hasn't it?
Running after the money and the honey makes the life stunningly funny.
An intelligent person can rationalize anything, a wise person doesn't try.
I'm not handled. I'm not crafted by slick, high-priced consultants. I'm a real person, a genuine person, a struggling person in Connecticut.
When you're playing a real person, there's a balance between playing the person in the script and playing the person as he was in life. You have to be respectful and true to who that person was, but at the same time tell the story in the film.
A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.
A lucky person is someone who plants pebbles and harvests potatoes.
Personal liberty is not personal license.
I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.
People assume when they come into a church and see a person up there speaking, 'That person must be a good person.' My challenge through the years has been believing that: 'I guess I must be a really good person.' I struggle with it. It just helps me...
I hope I'm a spiritual person. I'm trying to be a spiritual person.
With things in my personal life, if I talk about it, it doesn't stay personal.
The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.
My love can only occupy one person at a time. I try for that person to not be me.
Try to be a whole person. Not just a night person, or a day person. Be the kind of person who can live in both.
The biggest obstacle to people becoming better is that you have to really want to be a good person in order to be a better person, and most people would rather be other things.
Every person is created in the image of God and has value. Every person. Every person is to be treated with respect. Every person is also a citizen of some country. In their country, they have rights and responsibilities; in every other country, they...
I have a feeling that being in love sometimes means the projection of your desires onto another person. The important thing is that you like the other person, respect the other person and want to raise children with the other person.
Every animal is a tradition, and together they are a vast part of our heritage as human beings. No animal completely lacks humanity, yet no person is ever completely human. By ourselves, we people are simply balls of protoplasm. We merge with animals...
