Paul Simon Quotes

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

The most important thing anyone taught me in this business was not to take anything personally.

When you're filming, you work 19-hour days, and you know more about what's going on with your crew and co-workers than you do with your husband.

I'm not always the nicest person to meet, because I forget very easily that I'm an actress when I'm not working.

Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forget and forgive.

My relationship with Salman Khan is too personal to talk about. I take my work like any other regular job, and what I do in my personal life is no one's business. I'd rather let my work do all the talking.

I can't judge my own stuff. That's for others. But those are the three things that I admire.

I feel very strongly that you shouldn't mix your emotions with business. When it comes to my emotions, I certainly don't mix them with my business.

You have these relationships with people that you care about, but I also try to stick to my job as filmmaker and be fair and truthful about what I saw and my experience of the people, hopefully informed by a deep understanding of them.

It's funny: people who meet me say, 'I thought you'd be different.' But I'm still the same guy.

Building a professional relationship on respect as opposed to affection is a very good idea. Running your art projects the way you'd run a dry-cleaning business is also a really good idea. You shouldn't go into work like you're going on a date, like you're hanging out with friends.

It's not a good thing to be friends with people you're covering. There's just no point in doing it. It's tempting, but they're not going to consider you their friend anyway. They just know that you're somebody that can do something for them.

The hardest thing about working with your partner is that the work starts to become first.

There are some people who become best friends with everyone they photograph. There are people that I really like and admire and respect, but in a way I think it's better to keep a distance. I think you get better pictures of people that you don't know very well.

One of your tasks is to separate the 'personal' from the 'substantive.' The two can become confused, especially if someone rubs the President wrong.

Athletics carries its own set of truths, and those truths are diminished when manipulated by people with agendas.

I've learned that friendship does not equate business, business does not equate friendship.

It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.

I am aloof by nature. I mind my own business. I'm good with everyone, and I get along fine with people. But work is work, and friendship is friendship. I never mix the two.

I don't like the idea of being a human being, existing, talking to my friends, and having these real human conversations, and then getting to work on a sitcom and turning that part of my brain off.

In the enfranchised mind of the scientific naturalist, the usual feelings of repugnance simply do not exist. Curiosity conquers prejudice.

Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.

I'm not much given to straight, irony-free hero-worship.

Having casual conversations with the likes of Lena Dunham and Kim Kardashian makes me weak in the knees. I have so much respect and admiration for Lena that it doesn't matter how many times I talk to her - I get starstruck.

The perception is I didn't get along with umpires, obviously, and I didn't, on the court. But off the court, we had a good vibe.