#person

I was this person with this weird last name from New York that no one had ever heard of. But my screen test I guess, according to him, was the best. So I got the part, which was incredible. ↗

— Mary Steenburgen

#best #ever #got #guess #had

I grew up in a food-obsessed Italian family, so food was always front and center in my life. I was a food obsessed person who morphed into a comedian and tried to figure out a way to make fun of my cake and eat it too. ↗

— Nadia Giosia

#cake #center #comedian #eat #family

Really the only thing holding a lot of records together is the personality of the singer, and the will to write all of these different things. ↗

— Elvis Costello

#different things #holding #lot #only #personality

I didn't like anything about myself - my looks, my personality. I was very, very angry. ↗

— Marion Cotillard

#angry #anything #i #like #looks

I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director. ↗

— Marion Cotillard

#because #build #create #director #easier

Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them? ↗

— Sargent Shriver

#any #because #believing #dignity #give

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#character #consists #consuming #deliberately #describe

I can enjoy a vacation as well as the next person, as long as I know it's a vacation and not a premature retirement. ↗

— Mary Crosby

#i #i can #know #long #next

There's been a lot of simple vilification of right-wing people. It's really easy to say, 'Well, you're Christian, you're anti-this and that, and I hate you.' But to me, it's more interesting to say, 'What is this person like and how do they really think?' ↗

— Louis C. K.

#christian #easy #hate #how #i

I try not to dwell on the past. I'm not a big go-back-and-try-to-relive-your-past kinda person. ↗

— John Cusack

#dwell #i #kinda #past #person