Randall Jarrell Quotes

I have an inate curiosity about people.

I write human stories. I write about people. Not as a product of their environment. But from the stance that everybody is made of the same thing.

After this whole acting thing is over and done, you eventually have to be human. Some people are never human. It's very weird.

I have a natural curiosity for people.

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.

I'm curious about people, and I'm curious about getting to the root of where they might be coming from.

I like people, and I like to be around people. They are fascinating. I like to behave like a common man. I am a common man.

I love to learn about people.

I'm a normal person. I'm just like you and just like everyone else - I have feelings and thoughts.

I have to tell you, a few people had very controversial feelings about what I was doing with Gucci at the beginning, and now, after a couple of years, they are changing their minds. I want to give journalists the time and space to know me and what I'm doing better. But it's not a priority for me. At the end of the day, I am not an artist; I am not doing a performance; I'm doing things that need to be sold. And I know my job.

People change based on what they feel, not what they know. Which means that understanding all that advice doesn't matter if there's no deep, profound, visceral awareness of why it's important.

I hope you will be yourself, human, even a little sentimental, possessed of a sense of humor and a sense of humility. . . . There are arrogant people in this world and, what is worse, arrogant judges.

Sometimes I say stuff to relate to people. It just really depends, because you don't have to be one type of artist and talk about one thing.

People don't change just because you know more about them.

Maybe being Jesus is simply seeing people as they truly are.

Remember that the people you are talking to are a hundred times more interested in themselves and their wants and problems than they are in you and your problems.

Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people. They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

I think that most great artists who are extremely known, as I am, would intimidate a lot of people. I don't want to do that to people, but I know I do.

People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding — a thing which is rather surmised and never spoken than known and clothed in words.

I am a great artist and I know it. It's because of what I am that I have endured so much suffering, so as to pursue my vocation, otherwise I would consider myself a rogue - which is what many people think I am, for that matter.

Neurotics are awfully quick to notice other people's mentalities.

The police are people as well. All those nasty people aren't really nasty if they'd realise it.

You would be amazed at who people are once you know yourself.

I'm starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, & so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.

There are lots of guys out there who write a better prose line than I do and who have a better understanding of what people are really like and what humanity is supposed to mean - hell, I know that.