“In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people’s, we do not accept them easily enough.”

...reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays....

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.

These are the sort of things people ought to look at. Things without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves.

People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.

We may see the small Value God has for Riches, by the People he gives them to." [Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1727]

“People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.”

“Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves – and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.”

“It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.”

“People involved in a revolution don’t become part of the system; they destroy the system… The Negro revolution is no revolution because it condemns the system and then asks the system it has condemned to accept them…”

“When people are free to choose, they choose freedom.”

“The ‘public’ scares me, but people I trust.”

If you can have a great story that people can follow the mystery and get the suspense, and then you have those moments of tension and a splash of visual fun, then you kind of get everything. You get your money's worth.

People like to pigeonhole you.

“I’ve often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.”

“If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.”

I don't care what other people are doing.

In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.

I want people to treat me as normally as they can. Anybody who doesn't, I feel awkward with.

“I would like to thank the people who’ve brought me those dark moments, when I felt most wounded, betrayed. You have been my greatest teachers.”

“Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.”

“Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers.”

I'll find myself having dinner with people and someone will mention something and I will say I was in that situation once. Then I'll say, forget it, it was a scene I was in. That can get to be quite confusing.