Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

If you're doing something that's period, you've got to live in it, and you've got to make it resonate with you.

I find talking about acting very boring, having to come out with platitudes about how terribly nice everyone is. I would much rather just do it.

I have never been interested in presenting myself.

I just try to show up and be relaxed and present and honest. And that's my only trick. And sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. Honestly, sometimes it really doesn't work.

I'm not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It's only me.

I'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.

If you're not out living, then you've got nothing to talk about.

I like to hear about what people do. That's more interesting than talking about what the hell I do.

I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

I'm just a person. I'm not anything!

I like to talk about different subjects because then you give the people a chance to really digest something, and then take whatever they associate themselves with at the time.

I see no point in talking about myself unnecessarily.

I don't try to represent myself in a way that's not connected with my everyday reality, because I'm not smart enough to do that.

The church can challenge society, but society also challenges the church. That's good. We should be humble enough to be able to accept that.

I think who I am as a person on and off the stage is always kind of the same thing, but I don't take a lot of things very seriously.

There isn't really a whole lot to know about me.

I'm quite shy and I absolutely love my job - if you'd call it a job - and I like everything that goes along with it, but I think away from that I'm probably no more interesting or special than anyone else, and so I really like just doing normal stuff, as I'm sure most people in our team do.

I enjoy having a large audience, but I don't do anything special to attract them.

I don't want to bore people with things that don't matter to them. I want to share parts of my life that are universally true with other people.

I'm humble, because I live quite humbly.

Engagement is always better then disengagement. If we don't talk, somebody else will.

I am someone without an ego.

I only do a show when there's somebody I want to talk to.

A continuing conversation with other persons, with cultural products, and with oneself, is a large part of what it means to be a human being, in our time and perhaps in all time.

I still live very, very simply. I'm afraid to get comfortable because I'm afraid I'll lose that sense of where I've come from and that drive that's gotten me to where I'm at. When I travel I could stay at the Four Seasons, but it doesn't do as much for my soul staying in those places. When I stay at a hostel, it keeps me centered and I love the people I meet. There are great people in those nice places too, but I'm going to relate more to that backpacker in that hostel who is super excited about life and seeing beauty in the small things the way that I am.