David Copperfield Quotes

I had never really been around cards.

My dad was a big card player.

There's nowhere in the country that I can't go or won't go. I think it's because I've worked on making my show where everyone can understand it, everyone can relate to it, and no one feels like I'm alienating them.

You never know what the public is going to respond to or relate to.

I think there are a lot of successful people in this country who connect amazingly well with the American people and have - and one of the reasons they are successful is because they connect well.

We never expected the show to be this great. We think it is successful because kids can identify.

I get a lot of comments from people that I'm just an ordinary bloke. They immediately feel they have a closer relationship with you; they relate to you.

Some people don't like my songs because they think they're too simple or easy or not that thought-out. I feel like the way I write is pretty simple, in some ways, because I'm trying to connect. I want a lot of people to hear it, and be moved in some way.

I wanted to write something in a voice that was unique to who I was. And I wanted something that was accessible to the person who works at Dunkin Donuts or who drives a bus, someone who comes home with their feet hurting like my father, someone who's busy and has too many children, like my mother.

I am increasingly unimpressed by works of art that require a college degree to understand. I think that art should be for everyone. And people should be moved by it.

I think that, to a lot of people, they don't like my brand of whatever I do. And I think that people - the ones that like me, at least - see me as their brother or their older uncle or their friend or their next door neighbour. I am the quintessential boy next door; I feel that way.

This office is smaller than the last one I had. I'm not trying to impress people. I want to be close to them.

I don't think I could live without a deck of cards in my hands.

The 'Cheers' family seemed like my family.

I am a woman, I am a minority person, and I speak in a very plain way. And I think that reaches people.

I think if I was like Fred Astaire out there or like break dance fighting and doing crazy splits and stuff like that I think people would be like, 'ehhhh, I'm just going to watch him,' but the fact that they're like, 'I can do that,' it's fun and I think they lose themselves.

I want to relate with everybody. All I'll say is I'm home every summer, if we really want to play.

I have always played cards during training camps. I used to play Italian card games, though. I rarely played poker.

Anything was better than playing cards, and I was doing something I wanted to do creating.

One of the world's most popular entertainments is a deck of cards, which contains thirteen each of four suits, highlighted by kings, queens and jacks, who are possibly the queen's younger, more attractive boyfriends.

Patience and shuffle the cards.

It is wonderful to see persons of sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards.

The reason I'm doing a sitcom is because it's much more approachable.

Have good examples and stories to drive home your content.

You have made me known to friends whom I knew not. You have given me seats in homes not my own. You have brought the distant near and made a brother of the stranger... When one knows You, then there is no alien, and no door is shut.