I find that very appealing: the blurring of the lines between what's funny and what's tragic. And what's ordinary and what's not - the big things in the small things.
There's this unspoken club where you say to each other: Oh God, if they only knew how ordinary I was, they wouldn't be interested. That includes movie stars and politicians.
All writers are obviously neurotic... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world because they find ordinary life rather difficult or boring or both.
You come across quite ordinary, nondescript people in daily life, and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage, too.
In general, when you travel, you get into a different reality and are able to more accurately reflect on your ordinary life. Hiking does that for me.
I would not take for granted that my personal life - because I knew better than anybody - that it was just a life. It was surprisingly an ordinary life.
In real life, you just work for the ordinary self, but in the front of audience you become the superself. That's a completely different thing.
Basically, I'm a really bad interviewer. I love meeting celebrities, but then I get a bit bored. Once you meet them you thing, 'really, what an ordinary person'.
I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy.
The ultimate first date? Something that is completely out of the ordinary - go crazy, because first dates are always a little awkward, so do something a little extreme.
On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.
I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind.
The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears.
To the ordinary, opposite, means hatred. Every person sees themselves as love. To the extraordinary, opposite means opportunity.
The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way.
As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie.
You can't always do the extraordinary, in between you have to do the ordinary. Because if you didn't, what would constitute the extraordinary?
I've always known that I'm very, very ordinary looking. But I'm not alien looking. I am an artist here to play characters.
Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.
Maybe the Jefferson case will give members of Congress second thoughts the next time they get ready to legislate away the rights of ordinary Americans.
Dr. Berger: A little advice about feelings kiddo; don't expect it always to tickle.
