Robert B. Weide Quotes

It has to be fun for you when you see somebody at a distance and you take their opinion of what they're going to be like and then you go interview them, and they're totally different. You're like, wow, I didn't expect that.

More often than what you're suggesting, I find people are surprised that I have an urban side to me.

Usually when people see me, they see me as more of the soft-spoken one rather than being the witty, smart-tongued character.

I must say I've rarely been described as 'diplomat.'

You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.

People would be surprised by me if they knew I was humble.

You meet lots of people in your life, and sometimes you think that people are a certain way, and then they reveal themselves to be a different way.

It's a big surprise for me because if somebody asked me when I was playing if Frank Lampard would be a manager, I would say no because he's very quiet.

Everyone knows I'm sort of goofy. Some guys are really serious when they play. I'm not.

New Yorkers, we've seen Donald Trump for, like, 30 years; we know who he is. So he wasn't a surprise to me.

I'm just enjoying playing a character of myself. People's mouths drop when I dance, but my friends are like, "You dance like that in the kitchen!"

You wait for nothing if not for the word that will burst from the deep like a fruit among branches.

You're everything I thought you never were and nothing like I thought you could've been.

I think Harold Ramis is a genius beyond genius, and he's the nicest guy, funniest guy, sweetest guy ever. So I don't know if it applies to everybody, but maybe it has to do with your childhood.

All one's personality is embedded in gloves and hats after they've been good and used. Show me a glove and I'll tell you the character of its owner.

There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.

You know when sometimes you meet someone so beautiful — and then you actually talk with them, and five minutes later they're as dull as a brick. But then there's other people, and you meet them and you think: "Not bad, they're okay," and then you get to know them, and their face sort of becomes them, like their personality's written all over it; and they just — and they turn into something so beautiful.

And when she was good she was very very good. But when she was bad she was horrid.

Personality, too, is destiny.

... character reigns preeminent in determining potential.

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.

It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters.

He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say.