Vetrimaaran Quotes

If I have any appeal at all, it's to the fellow who takes out the garbage.

Trust me: I entertain Joe Six-Pack 30 weekends a year. I don't really think that I'm an elitist.

DDP was the common guy, the everyman, a blue-collar guy from New Jersey. He represented something that the average person could believe in, in a way that was a little unique.

I love playing the common man.

My personality is that I'm a human being like everybody else, just a citizen and a blue collar guy.

I try to connect with the everyday, every guy.

I could never drive in a great big car; people like me because I'm a man of the people, a hustler.

I'm the friend of the little people.

I represent the working people. I’m not what you’d call a wine and cheese type of guy.

People are probably correct when they see me as the so-called Everyman. I'm attracted primarily to contemporary characters. I understand them and their frustrations.

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.

He [Andrew Jackson] looked after the little fellow who had no pull.

About the only way you can find out about the common man, his slang, what he looked like, what he thought, is through the comic strips. It's a powerful way for young people to learn history.

We've had enough of the generals and movie stars. We want to hear about the ordinary people.

You're beginning to hear the tale of the common man and woman rather than the traditional memoir about the generals who just finished the war or the politicians who just rendered glorious service to the country.

I think people identify with Columbo because he is an average man.

I think once you meet me, you realize I'm not necessarily some soft yoga guy. I've been on the picket line. I've been in the union halls. I'll drink a Miller Lite with you.

Kurt Russell is the guy you know. He's not something out of a weight-lifting magazine or a cartoon character. The closest thing to him would have been Steve McQueen.

As soon as I reach any town, I talk to the shoe-shine boys or the barbers or the people in the restaurants, because it's Mr. Joe Doakes who is very close to reality.

I often find that superheroes are the bachelors or the billionaires - and everyone loves them. Peter Parker is basically the complete opposite. I just think that's what a lot of kids feel like as they're growing up.

The fact that you're successful doesn't mean that you can't relate to working people.

I don't see myself as particularly highbrow. I am much more populist.

I pretty much made a conscious decision to make projects a lot of people can relate to.

I was always looking for relatability, because I am not someone cut out for larger than life roles.

I play real men that I can identify with. I have a lot of guys tell me that they relate to me because I represent the real, everyday dudes.