Walter Isaacson Quotes

I guess you could say that no matter what the characters are enduring, I try to make them retain their humanity. Their self-absorbed, grouchy, selfish, aggravating humanity.

I think people who have faults are a lot more interesting than people who are perfect.

We're all human; we all have weaknesses.

Ultimately, we stars are human being at the end of the day. We also have bad habits, weaknesses, we also make mistakes.

The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperback biographies until they were dog-eared. The story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Madame Curie and Martin Luther King and George Washington Carver and on and on and on.

We're all human. We have our foibles, we've made mistakes, and yet there is still greatness.

I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.

Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

Well, uh, all people - all, I think all human begins, uh, have good attributes, and they also have their flaws.

I'm not a saint. I'm not an angel. I'm a human being.

If I thought a man had never committed a sin in his life, I don't think I'd want to talk with him. A man with flaws is more interesting.

Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.

I grew up with actors, so I never thought of them as anything but human - sort of horribly, inextricably human.

Lawyers work hard and, like us, they're human, many of them.

In order to satirize adequately, I think you need to bring people down to Earth and be like, 'Yeah, these people drink coffee and have tummy troubles and they go to the bathroom like anybody else, and they all have relationship problems, if they even have relationships.'

People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.

My goal as an actor was just to be somebody very human. I'm not really interested in playing a character who is particularly cool and everything he does looks great and turns out great.

Scooby's the greatest cartoon character ever. He isn't cute like Mickey or smart like Bugs or fearless like Woody and Buzz - he's a talking dog who's more human than I am. It's his humanity and imperfections that make him special.

I wanted fans to know that I'm human and not perfect.

Being in my more senior years now, you hope somewhere along the track that you're going to get to collide with a role that feels very special, and Einstein is such a magnificent figure.

All of the trials and tribulations from personal to the artist. It shows that I'm human. People see the glamorous stuff, but they don't see the background.

Am I perfect? Not at all. I'm just like everybody else.

I love legends. I love reading up on the greats in their time period. I think, 'Man, what it would be like to live when they were competing and see them at their best!'

I want to be able to show people that I have flaws and they have flaws, too. And you know what that means? No one out there is perfect.

Aren't all people flawed?