Phil McGraw Quotes

When you're in a movie, they treat you like you're four years old and give you whatever you want. On some level it's really wonderful and gratifying, but on another level it's rather disturbing. I'm sure you've spoken to movie stars and wondered: How do these people survive without babysitters?

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

I'm pampered like you wouldn't believe.

Unemployed people are spoiled

When you're an actor on set, people treat you like a giant baby. They don't let you do anything. Like, "Do you need any food? Do you need the bathroom?"

A lot of people these days are very much too wrapped up in cotton wool: people aren't pushed to their limits, and that's why we should find out where our limits lie.

I never had to grow up. Everybody did everything for me. I was the first generation in my family to have money, and I had no idea what to do.

I've lived an easy life, the life you dream about. And at that time I thought it was normal, but it's so far from normal.

Everyone loves feeling comfortable. But it's actually completely useless.

I had always been a very pampered child.

You need to think about the system that you live in and the comforts that you have. But the comforts that you have that are causing the discomforts of a massive amount of people around the world.

People say they want freedom, but what they really want is freedom from worry. If I take care of their problems, they don't mind being told what to do.

Being fed, and having a soft bed, and other people being in charge, seemed the most wonderful prospect in the world at that moment.

For the most part, most people most often choose comfort - the familiar, the time-honored, the well-worn but well-known. After a lifetime of choosing between comfort and risk, we are left with the life we currently have.

Wherever people feel safe — they will be indifferent.

You have people like Sarah Jessica Parker - and it's also because of her mother and where she came from and all that stuff - but how you're taught to be responsible for yourself rather than endlessly people waiting for you and bringing you things.

The worst effect of tutelage is that it negates self-discipline, and therefore people suddenly released from it are almost bound to make fools of themselves.

None are so inconsiderate as those who demand nothing of life other than their own personal comfort.

You ever want to see real witchcraft, you watch people protecting their comfort, their beliefs.

All relationships have the same basic components: people, needs, and expectations.

The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it. People gather bundles of sticks to build bridges they never cross. People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not.

A long time ago I learned not to explain things to people. It misleads them into thinking they're entitled to know everything I do. -Sara

I like working with people I know. It saves a lot of awkward conversations and getting-to-know-you kinda moments. You trust the people if you know them.

Because ain’t that white people for you, wondering if they are happy enough.

People grew lazy. They knew too many blessings, and so lost the ability to appreciate what they had