Trevor Noah Quotes

Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.

Even today I meet people who think of me automatically as a tough, insensitive, coarse guy named Stanley Kowalski. They can't help it, but, it is troubling.

Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link.

I think I'm at a place where I haven't really been encountered by anyone overtly strange. But people think they know me.

Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are.

People will have an altered idea of who you are unless they really take time to get to know you, which of course they don't. They just get what they see, and they take that to the bank.

Part of the fun of life is interacting with people and not knowing what the truth is inside. Letting them reveal that to you is what binds you to people.

I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do.

I just feel as though it's become a situation where people have manifested this caricature of who I am, and they act as if there's no real person inside of it.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

People are much deeper than stereotypes. That's the first place our minds go. Then you get to know them and you hear their stories, and you say, 'I'd have never guessed.'

I love grocery shopping when I'm home. That's what makes me feel totally normal. I love both the idea of home as in being with my family and friends, and also the idea of exploration. I think those two are probably my great interests.

I write about emotions - falling in and out of love, finding what you want to do, no matter where you are or who you are. I think that's why people feel connected.

Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical.

I think we all want to know where we came from and how we fit into the world, but some of us need to know how it all works in great detail.

I'm just not interested in getting judged or getting people to love me. Being seen and taking my photo and having to follow this schedule all the time, I don't enjoy it.

People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.

At first, I didn't realize it was gonna be a character. I just thought I was gonna be doing me.

I think for such a long time people had this misconception of who I was and what I was about.

People look at you, and they think they know you. They think they can place you in a certain category by what they think they know about you. But there's so much more to all of us than what we know and what we see at face value.

People have their image of you or their ideas about who you are, and it can be frustrating.

I don't want people to think I'm a wrestler.

You see the Paper Bois - easy. Personas are easy to touch and see and digest. But you don't get the chance to really see who the Alfreds are. I want to make sure I did that with him.

If you judge me only by my profession, you don't know me at all. Those people who do that? They'll never know me.

Truth is seldom appreciated and never understood, whereas a flattering lie is always appreciated and instantly understood.