Tracy McGrady Quotes

My goal was to show that even if people work in a garage or a supermarket, they have very funny things to say. We never hear their voices.

Some people tell me they would be afraid of my characters, but I tell those people [that] they meet these characters all the time. They just don't care about them when they meet them, at the gas station, the car wash, the post office even.

The second-class couple is far closer to what the audience is today. It's who we are.

I identify with the regular person, because that is who I am.

Queen songs are not about the life of a rock star - they tend to be about the lives of normal people, which is why I think the songs connect so much. We're very lucky that they seemingly connect with every generation.

I try to connect with the everyday, every guy.

I happen to go for the simplest, most ordinary things. The extraordinary doesn't interest me. I'm not interested in psychotics. I'm interested in the person you don't expect to have a story. I like Everyman.

The media chooses to portray the most extreme and violent aspects of a place. I do the opposite and portray the normality.

Wherever I go, I just try to show normal life. If the work helps to dispel stereotypes, it's because I seek not to portray the extremities of a place, but the vast majority of people who are quite normal and are having normal life experiences.

Right now, musically I'm inspired by everyday people.

If you live only a movie-star life, you know only movie-star things. I needed to live a regular life with normal people around.

The Trudie Styler that is spoken of is extremely privileged in life and feels that privilege.

I write about everyday people, everyday lives.

I don't see that we're any different than many, many people that are out there. And it's hard to kind of accept something like we're larger than life, super-people or something like that.

The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and their griefs.

People’s lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, and unfathomable – deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum.

I wish that some way could be found to add up all the staggering costs imposed on millions of ordinary people, just so a relative handful of self-righteous environmental cultists can go around feeling puffed up with themselves.

When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.

I think that celebrities are just people, like everybody else, and they've got the foodie bug in them too.

I like to do stand-up for people who live real life.

Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process.

I hate ordinary people!

The world was made up of people putting one foot in front of the other; and a life might appear ordinary simply because the person living it had been doing so for a long time.

You know, you get famous and you work in these weird jobs and you don't have a lot in common with people. But once you have kids, you have everything in common with everybody.

When you travel, specifically for our show, you get inspired by rest stops, Cracker Barrel. Middle-America people are perfect.