I don’t think there’s any reason on Earth why people should have access to automatic and semiautomatic weapons unless they’re in the military or in the police. – John Howard
I’m not interested in meeting people’s expectations, and I’m not interested in pleasing people. – John Frusciante
At least in making an action film, there’s always going to be someone who wants to see a car chase. Even if a lot of the people don’t like it, there will be a lot of people that do. But bad comedy is just garbage. – Jason Statham
As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book. – Iain Banks
Sometimes when I’m on set, I keep eating, and people are like, ‘You really eat that?’ I’m like, ‘Yes, I do.’ – Irina Shayk
I’ve worked with some incredibly difficult directors but my understanding is that a lot of the best people are driven from a place of being extremely challenging and dark within their way. – Josh Lucas
All the working-class people could feel a Malcolm X. They could hear Malcolm X, and two weeks later they could whisper back what he said. Verbatim. They could remember the way he put it, and he put it so well. – John Henrik Clarke
I learned quite early on in life that we are all two people. And one of those people none of us will ever know. – Helen Mirren
Where does guilt and punishment lie, and are we not more expressive over remorse or guilt when other people see the badness in us? – Joel Edgerton
When vastly wealthy people say, ‘I’m not leaving my kids any money,’ it’s typically not true. – Jamie Johnson
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people’s patience. – John Updike
I made so many films which were more important, but the only one people ever want to talk about is that one with Bogart. – Ingrid Bergman
The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy… or they become legend. – Jim Harrison
I used to sing in the church choir. People would say it was unusual for such a small girl to have such a big voice. They would say, ‘She sounds like she’s grown.’ – Jennifer Hudson
Television, they say, will permit a person to be entertained at home, without the effort of going to a picture house, without the trouble of booking seats, without the presence of other people. – Ivor Novello
People forget that when you’re 16, you’re probably more serious than you’ll ever be again. You think seriously about the big questions. – John Hughes
I think mental illness or madness can be an escape also. People don’t develop a mental illness because they are in the happiest of situations, usually. One doctor observed that it was rare when people were rich to become schizophrenic. If they were poor or didn’t have too much money, then it was more likely. – John Forbes Nash, Jr.
People have seen me fighting everything from ‘Fast and Furious’ to the IRS on Planned Parenthood to a host of things, Benghazi and others. – Jason Chaffetz
I think the movie, ‘Joy,’ has so many touchpoints with so many people because it is about the ordinary, but a lot of the times, the ordinary is extraordinary. – Joy Mangano
The leg drop was a move that nobody really used, and nobody ever hit the ropes and jumped up really high, so I tried it out in Japan and the people loved it. That’s how I came up with it. – Hulk Hogan
Among those people not graduating, there might be a Steve Jobs or Barack Obama. We’ll never know. – Jamie Dimon
I really enjoy the company of my kids… I’m not one of those people who goes ‘Yeah, my kids are my mates’, that’s a dreadful kind of mother, but I’m fortunate that there are times that they do want me around, and I feel lucky that they let me into their world. – Jane Goldman
