Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.
People are drastically overconfident about their judgments of others.
People suit their star sign. If someone is annoying me over and over, and I know they're a Sagittarius, say, I'm more likely to forgive them. It comes down to my need for structure as a way of finding my bearings with people.
I think sometimes people have a different idea of what starting a band is going to be.
We are always bored by the very people by whom it is vital not to be bored.
Anyone who thinks that people can be fooled or pushed around has an inaccurate and pretty low estimate of people - and he won't do very well in advertising.
The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing.
Maybe I just look at things as a humanist: I like looking at people in a realistic way more than looking at them in a positive way.
In international relations, in foreign policy, a great deal has to do with historical circumstances, a great deal has to do with the sense and perception of people.
That's a funny thing, fame. People definitely do treat you differently. When you begin to be successful, people say, 'Don't go changing.' Well, that's easy to say, but the fact is, you don't change at all - other people do.
I don't have all that great an awareness of how people see me in life. I don't find myself thinking about it a lot.
I think I was perceived in one fashion. A video is based on a song. I think you can get glimpses of people's presence within that. There's some people you enjoy watching more than others.
I'm a pretty nice dude. I have fun, and people take it the wrong way.
I'm glad I get to do characters. It's just like a Polaroid shot of whoever the person is, and to me, anyway, that's kind of what life is like. You get a general sense of somebody, and then we're all good, we get it. We understand each other.
There's nothing the world loves more than a ready-made description which they can hang on to a man, and so save themselves all trouble in future.
Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.
When they first arrive, really, my eyes bleed! It's only when they're about to leave that they become people you might want to know.
I grew up in the entertainment industry, and I think being around that gave me a different perspective on people and what's real and what's fake. I think about that a lot, and it comes out in my songs.
I have frequently detected myself in such kind of mistakes... in a total misapprehension of character at some point or other: fancying people so much more gay or grave, or ingenious or stupid than they really are, and I can hardly tell why, or in what the deception originated. Sometimes one is guided by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge.
Actors are not necessarily smart people.
Liberals consider people to be nuisances.
Sometimes you get a flash of what you look like to other people.
If we want to change what people think of us, then we have got to change.
When you're seven feet tall on set, people give you respect.
The way you get to know yourself is by the expression on other people's faces.
