Lots of people say we should fly less, heat less, and put on a sweater. But it’s not going to happen. People are happy to say that for other people, but not themselves.
I’d had people say, ‘You’ll enjoy being famous for a week, and you’ll never enjoy it again’. But I don’t think I had that week. I may have been working and missed that moment.
I have heard some people say I have a low profile. Why should somebody be high profile, anyway? I am just doing my job.
Some people say I’m conscious, some say I’m a gangsta rapper – it’s just me doing me. I’m stomping in my own lane. I’m doing what I do.
When you’re a mom and you have three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I’ve got other things to deal with.
People say I seem very negative about new music – well, if somebody asks me what I think of Keane, I’ll tell ’em. I don’t like ’em. I’ll obviously take it a step too far and grossly insult the keyboard player’s mam or summat, but I’m afraid that’s just me.
People say, ‘Wow, you’ve achieved it all this year: two world championship wins and an Olympic gold medal.’ And I think, ‘Yeah, but how come I feel so unsatisfied and under pressure all over again?’
Changes can be made. New decisions can be made. If people say, ‘It’s not like that in the comics!’ Well, comic books reinvent their characters a lot. They do different things with them all the time. They’re always changing, always keeping things fresh. So that shouldn’t be an issue if the race changes for a character.
Some people say they have a thirst for life. They’re excited about every day and they’re prepared to look the bad and the good straight in the face and greet it all with a smile. I like to think I’m one of those people.
Sometimes people say to you that you should try to be in a bigger film, but it’s the way it pans out.
When people say, ‘You run like a girl; you play like a girl,’ it’s not what it used to be. That shouldn’t be negative. You should be proud to play like a girl.
People say I’m mean and rude to contestants but The Vixen isn’t that bad! It’s a game and I’m supposed to be intimidating.
People say you never remember anybody who dies in movies, and it’s true, you don’t. You don’t even remember people who disappear.
People say I’m destroying hip-hop, and I’m like, there’s so much hip-hop, and it’s so popular, so I don’t know why I have the power to destroy it.
A lot of people say that I took the first shot for Bitcoin. The first person to walk through the door always gets shot, and then everyone else can come through.
Some people say I appeared on the Phil Donahue show to tell ‘my’ sex change story but I’ve never appeared on his show for any reason… not even as a member of the studio audience.
I’ve had so many people say stuff to me. I meet them, have a chat for five minutes and they think they can say what they like. I used to laugh it off, but now I think ‘why do you think you can say that to me? You don’t know me.’
I wasn’t obsessed by magic. People say, ‘How you can you claim you practiced eight hours a day and weren’t obsessed?’ Well, people go to a job they don’t even like for eight hours a day; it’s not obsessive if it’s something you like.
People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life.
People say that this new generation is so used to the Internet that their heads are already different. They can’t read a book from beginning to end. That is not a tragedy. The book changes form.
People say I should be running for a gold medal for the old red, white and blue and all that bull, but it’s not gonna be that way.
People say I play real loud. I don’t, actually. I’m recorded loud and a lot of that is because we have good engineers. Mick knows what a good drum sound is as well, so that’s part of the illusion really. I can’t play loud.
People say I am the king of painful shoes. I don’t want to create painful shoes, but it is not my job to create something comfortable. I try to make high heels as comfortable as they can be, but my priority is design, beauty and sexiness. I’m not against them, but comfort is not my focus.
People say to me, ‘Why do you do these ugly parts?’ And it’s because at the end of the day, I’m an actress, and I crave the dark and the light within one job.
It’s really important to stand up for yourself and not always agree with what people say if indeed you don’t feel that that’s true.
A lot of times people say, ‘As soon as you relax you’ll have a kid.’
The nightmare is you spend the rest of your life being funny at parties and then people say, ‘Why didn’t you do that when you were on television?’
I think there’s a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.
People say to me all the time, ‘When did you know that you had fully become an American?’ And I say, ‘The day I realized I loved peanut butter.’
It wasn’t until the movie came out that it all changed for us. Some people say it was the start of Ten Years After, but in another way, it was the beginning of the end.
I tend not to really think about what other people say. I’d rather just try and focus on what I’m doing, try and win basically.
People say, ‘Is broadcasting the same as coaching?’ I say, ‘Hell, no.’ Coaching, you win and lose. Broadcasting, you don’t win and lose. Coaching was a lot bigger than broadcasting.
When people say ‘love to hate’, they actually mean ‘love to be appalled by’ – if they truly hated them, they’d never repeat a catch phrase.
I feel more and more at ease, because I think the older I get, the less pressure there is. People say, ‘Well, he’s not cutting edge because he’s not in his twenties, so he’s not expected to be.’
During a game, it comes down to your mind – the pressure. There are loads of other aspects, too. Many people say taking penalties is easy, but when you’re stood over one, that’s not the case. It’s in no way easy. The goal really does become a lot smaller.
People say I am a classic designer. I don’t try to be classic, but I do try to be simple and elegant.
Italy to me is like the mean mother. Whatever I do, it’s never good enough. People say I’m the queen of Cannes, but in Italy I get turned down for work.
I feel like when I try to fit in, it comes across as not genuine, and that is not good. I’d rather just do me and have people say, ‘Oh. That’s interesting,’ than try to fit in.
People say that if you’re still angry at 52, you’re not an angry young man, just a grumpy old git.
People say that I’m always late, but that’s a myth.
That’s a big gift when people say to you that a song helped them or brought them to some place in their life where they needed to be.
People say, oh it’s a shame, you’re not nostalgic about the ’60s. Well actually, it’s quite good, when you think of it. Wouldn’t it be sad if I was sitting here wishing it back?
When people say, ‘She’s got everything’, I’ve got one answer – I haven’t had tomorrow.
I love getting attention, just like a child loves it, and it’s never worn off. So when people say, oh the book signings go on, why would I shoo away someone who’s giving me attention? What part of standing in line for 10 hours to say how much they love you is bad to you?
People say, ‘What’s the secret to a marriage?’ There’s no secret – I think you get lucky.
I’ve always said people say on a dramatic show, ‘I was crying. It was so emotional when he went and grabbed that little girl from a burning building and handed her over to her mother.’ In comedy, the best thing you can say is, ‘I think it’s funny.’
I know some people say, ‘You must have life balance.’ I don’t have that.
That’s a funny thing, fame. People definitely do treat you differently. When you begin to be successful, people say, ‘Don’t go changing.’ Well, that’s easy to say, but the fact is, you don’t change at all – other people do.
People say all kinds of things about the ingredients of songs. But you know they are a kind of magic, in the sense that they may easily include a stain on your bedroom wall… and a variety of mis-recollections. And then you name it after a girl’s name that you just made up.
A lot of people say I tried to emulate Tupac, but when I look back at my career, we’re very different artists. I took pages out of Pac’s book, of course, and lots of other rappers – Biggie, Nas – of course you take pages out of those books, but you eventually make it your own thing. And I think I did a good job of that.
I don’t like it when people say, ‘You’re 45, so you should be wearing X and never Y.’ For me, dressing is about attitude, not age.
People say the ‘Lost Generation’ in a romantic sense, but I think it was tragic. They were really lost.
I feel like I come from a smaller off shoot of black people because I am mixed. People say I’m African American but that doesn’t include the other half of me.
Maybe I’m old-fashioned, but I think viewers are hungry for shows in which people say something meaningful.
Some people say to me, Isn’t it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.
I’m wondering when you hit the age where people say, ‘Oh, OK, he’s not so young.’
Through all of this lovely interviewing, and nice things people say, and the rest of it, I have learned that I am an actor. That is my profession. That is my job. That is how I make a living. So I am just out there making a living.
