Ryan Adams Quotes

You should really get some quotes about our show. Noah loves when people talk about him. Negatively or positively.

I think of myself as a very ordinary person. I like writing about the juxtaposition between people: the beauty of them at times and then the banal, everyday context in which we find ourselves.

When you turn professional, you become an entertainer, and like every other entertainer, you don't want to get a bad review.

I'm my own worst critic. I could tell the critics a thing or two about my shows.

I know how people are. We fixate on controversy and all that.

After every show, I say to Hania [Destelle, a friend], ‘They hated it.’

Frankly, I get much more sensitive about what's written about me than how I look in a photo. I'm so used to people seeing my image in plays and films that what they think about how I look is none of my business. If they says, "Hey, he doesn't look good," I'm like, Whatever, because I know I look different from day to day. But if you're up there putting your heart into something and people reject your performance, that's very painful. The written word can kick your ass.

You know, if you're going to be honest with yourself, you have to admit that you go into show business wanting people to talk about you and wanting everyone to know who you are. But that also means there are going to be a whole bunch of people who don't like you. No matter who you are. I'm sure there's somebody out there who doesn't like Betty White because she's short and has white hair.

Either a good or a bad reputation outruns and gets before people wherever they go.

It's great to tell people you have your own show, but that's where the fun stops.

Show a people as one thing, only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become.

People have misconceptions about Marilyn Manson, of course, but they can think what they want.

The American people probably aren't going to fall in love with Mitt Romney.

People cain't help being what they are any more than a skunk can help being a skunk. Don't you think if they had their choice they would rather be something else? Sure they would. People are just weak.

I don't care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.

I think humans are driven by othering people, by defining themselves by who they are not and who is different from them. Human beings are in love with othering.

If you start acting and you start thinking about and worrying about what other people are going to say about it, you'll never really fully commit to who it is and what it is that you're playing.

My downfall made a great noise: those who appeared most satisfied criticized the manner of it.

He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.

The Spanish PM rang me to say: 'I have the support of only 4 per cent of the people.' I said, 'Crikey, that's even less than think Elvis Presley is still alive.'

Hollywood is like high school, there are always going to be people who hate you and people who like you. When you're a teen, [that's tough] because you're hyper-aware of what other people are gonna say and think. But neither defines who you are as a person or how successful you are unless you let them.

But lies were what people wanted; that was politics.

All politicians are bores and liars and fakes. I talk to people.

I'm aware that at the big, big clubs stuff can change quickly, as can opinions and people in charge. Not everyone is going to like you, not everyone is going to want to play you and that's the business side of it, which I've grown into and I'm certainly not going to take personally.

I think that part of being human is being alone, and being lonely. I think one of the stresses on a lot of our friendships is that we require the people we love to take away that loneliness. and they really can't. And so, when we still feel lonely, even in the company of people we love, we become angry with them because they don't do what we think they're supposed to. Which is really something that they can't do for us.