"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them"

"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other."

"I think daycare is great for people who have to work two jobs. My problem is with people who are dropping kids off at daycare because they want to go out and spend the day golfing or getting their nails done. You know what I mean? That's not why they invented daycare."

"Most people don't know how underpaid and often ill-equipped urban fire departments are across North America."

"It's about time that people forget that image of strip clubs as seedy places...Rather, today's clubs are capital-intensive female-empowerment zones."

"Like many people, I think I'm my own worst critic. And I think I take a lot out in an internally abusive way, looking at how I measure up, which usually was never enough. I never, never was as good as someone else."

"People - whatever their race, religion, sexual preference - deserve to be treated as human beings."

"Look, when people came after me for doing 'Indecent Proposal' or 'Disclosure,' I thought, 'Ridiculous.' These people are trying to limit me as an actor. Are they saying I can't play these roles? Well, I've proved I can."

"The sky is the limit... for some people aim higher nothing is impossible."

"Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives birth to a new sense of belonging."

"People are doing the best that they can from their own level of consciousness."

"One sees more and more people who are miserable and demented and you feel it would be both kind and wise to leave them a few pills."

"If people want to take their lives and are helped to do so, the punishment is tragic for all concerned."

"You need to know the characters as living, breathing people before you start the plot; otherwise, you'll feel panic, anarchy and chaos."

"I'd never get elected if people in North Carolina realized how liberal I am."

"I'd like to play a horse, many people think I already have. Either end of the horse would be fine."

"Any people whose lives are about the way they look, whether it's fat or thin, are in a dangerous area."

"Two people occupying the same air. Nothing else in common. Just oxygen."

"I've often said the most difficult things I have to say to people through humour. I can very quickly put someone in their place with it. But we all walk away unscathed because there's been some funnies around it, and I'll usually make sure that it comes back at me."

"I can't seem to fathom that the things important to me are not important to other people as well, and so I come off sounding like a missionary, someone whose job it is to convert rather than listen."

"I've always had a way with the little people, making it a point to humor them without looking down my nose at their wasted empty lives."

"Remember that the most important thing is to try and love other people as much as they love you."

"People are often frightened of Parisians, but an American in Paris will find no harsher critic than another American."

"In other parts of the country people tried to stay together for the sake of the children. In New York they tried to work things out for the sake of the apartment."