I grew up around really not-normal people. My family is general Hollywood. They're all artists; they're creative people who are advocates for expressing themselves. But I also have to say I'm not impressed with Hollywood.
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Related People are always saying that Hollywood messes up kids. I'm like, 'No, families mess up kids... TORI SPELLING I know people from working with them on films, but they're not the ones I would meet up with... ... DAKOTA BLUE RICHARDS It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their... VANESSA HUDGENS So, no, I'm not trying to crack into Hollywood, although I'll make films there if they'r... EWAN MCGREGOR People are hysterical about the death of newspapers, and I would say, 'They're not dying; th... JARED KUSHNER I understand I'm supposed to be feminine and dainty, but I'm not. There are two sides to the... KESHA Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They're keeping up with their friends and f... MARK ZUCKERBERG When are programmers happy? They're happy when they're not underutilized - when they're ... ERIC S. RAYMOND I'm so thankful for my family and friends - they're really supportive. Everyone I work with ... LAURA MARANO I don't think I'm influencing younger artists - they're not trying to be me. But I don... BRAD PAISLEY I became super claustrophobic with Hollywood. I don't like Hollywood. I don't like what it r... BRODY JENNER People tell me that Hollywood loves new faces, but I don't know. They're probably just being... JACK DAVENPORT For the most part, the first thing people I meet that aren't Mormon say is, 'I grew up with ... BRANDON FLOWERS I'm thankful for weird people out there 'cause they're some of the most creative people. CHANNING TATUM I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work... MICHAEL DOUGLAS I'm from really humble beginnings. I've never been this Hollywood diva, but you get caught u... HEIDI MONTAG My family aren't performers. They're just normal people. They don't understand this ente... JAY RYAN I'm not the Hollywood type. I'm not going to pack up my bags and let me move to Hollywood an... DWIGHT HENRY My friends and the people I know understand that I'm going to ask them what they're doing, h... SAM YAGAN I think of myself as a Hollywood hillbilly, but I'm sick of all these questions people ask about... SUNNY MABREY I don't like it when people who are young act like they're 40. That's taking too much on... TAYLOR SWIFT I've had some people tell me they're glad I'm a normal girl. Of course I'm a normal ... KATIE FEATHERSTON I'm fascinated by caddy Buddhists popping up all over Hollywood and people that take themselves ... TIG NOTARO English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don't know that I'm from China. They t... BAI LING I'm one of those actors who's going to have to create a space for themselves. It's very ... WENTWORTH MILLER I think some people who say they're not Christians can behave in a more godly fashion than peopl... ANNE GRAHAM LOTZ In Hollywood, for me, it's all about the movie stars and the singers. Baseball players don't... MATT KEMP I don't want to make it a hard, fast rule, but it's surprising how many 'fun for the who... KYLE KINANE We're open people. I don't understand these Hollywood people who don't want to put their... GIULIANA RANCIC The happiest people I've found are in science. These people have three times the IQ - maybe I... ELI BROAD People who work with me think I should cut my hair. They say casting directors are less likely to hi... RORY CULKIN I'm not trying to brainwash my critics. If they're critics, they're critics, and that... JOHN CENA I hate the terminology of 'costume' because my clothes are not costumes at all. I think they... CHRISTIAN SIRIANO They're trying to kill me before I'm dead. I come to Quebec to spend some time with my famil... PAT BURNS People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm f... JOHNNY DEPP People that I'm most attracted to, they're not living by any sort of rules. They're the ... CAROLYN MURPHY I'm happy I have fans; obviously, they're such great people. When I'm on Twitter and Fac... DAKOTA GOYO I don't think Hollywood will be the place that innovates great technology, but if people underes... PATRICK WHITESELL My family was all born in Sicily and I'm Italian-American. They're the real thing. They'... VINNY GUADAGNINO Right now, black female artists are the most interesting people to think about. People are ready to ... TINK My friends back from the East Coast jokingly call me 'Hollywood,' and they assume I'm ou... BILL LAWRENCE I'm not extremely outgoing, but I'm average, I think. When people meet me they'll say, &... ALESSIA CARA After doing two years in prison, trust me, I've seen a lot of tough guys pray. They're not j... JA RULE Some people are just quiet - they don't need to be talking all the time and aren't extrovert... CHIRLANE MCCRAY I like my hands. They're certainly scarred up, but they're wormy. They're knuckly. They&... HILARIE BURTON They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong. RALPH BAKSHI I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming ... AL PACINO Psychopaths are actually, really, really, really rare in our culture, are people who don't... Or... ANNIE PARISSE People usually spend the first two months playing themselves up, not really being themselves. You wa... MANNY MONTANA I always feel like I wasn't the best trainer, because I'm really good at teaching people stu... DANIEL BRYAN I guess people don't think that young girls or young artists have opinions, but I'm so glad ... ALESSIA CARA Hollywood is a very volatile place where artists come in, and they essentially say they want to belo... LEONARDO DICAPRIO I'm from the creative side of Hollywood. I'm up for anyone that wants to support my work. If... JENJI KOHAN People talk about Hollywood as a myth, but in reality, when you make Icelandic movies and you want t... BALTASAR KORMAKUR I have to tell people that they are not responsible for their behavior. They're not creating it;... B. F. SKINNER I think people who go out and tell you how much they're gonna change things are the people who e... DARIUS RUCKER When I say they're lunatics, that's what I'm talking about. People that think you should... SHERROD BROWN I know some really great actors who are pretty judgmental people, pretty critical people. But they... PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN A lot of times in Hollywood, when casting directors find out you're of Middle Eastern descent, t... MAZ JOBRANI I think it would collapse my heart if I was super famous. I don't have the nerve for it, I'm... BO BURNHAM I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. ... J. K. ROWLING Coming in and out of Hollywood for pilot season, I may have to thicken my accent or hear that, physi... CARLOS PONCE I think for us up-and-coming artists, once you're out there, once you've put stuff up, once ... ELLA EYRE I'm sort of of the belief that people kill themselves from the inside out. When they're unha... JOHN LYDON I like my feet. I have a tattoo on my foot with my last name. They're dancer feet. They're p... CAITY LOTZ Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was gr... WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN People are always surprised when they spend time with my children by how normal they are. They'r... DONATELLA VERSACE If the Indian people want stories written about themselves, how they want them told, they are going ... RICKY SCHRODER I didn't come to Hollywood. Hollywood came to me. A lot of people wish they could say the things... MR. T Some people say they have a thirst for life. They're excited about every day and they're pre... AMY JO MARTIN I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good... DAISY DONOVAN I've been in things that have impressed people and they've come up to congratulate you but i... ELIZABETH MCGOVERN I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are ... RACHEL WEISZ I have no connection with Hollywood. I'm not interested. I don't care. ADAM CAROLLA People who pigeonhole us for our queerness are not people I'm interested in knowing. They're... BEN HOPKINS It just makes you a better artist when you're with people who are great artists themselves. Bein... BIG SEAN People always say to me, 'It must have been wonderful coming from old Hollywood, with all those ... SAMUEL GOLDWYN All my good friends are actors, really. It's different when you have a family, but they're s... DAVID MORRISSEY I have a really, really, really normal family. And by normal I mean we're all nuts on some level... ANNA PAQUIN People are expecting me to still be fourteen years old. It cracks me up, especially when people see ... ALEXA VEGA People who meet me as an adult are often surprised that I'm alive and have never been in prison ... MARA WILSON Latinos are the fastest growing minority, and we're obviously not going anywhere. We're extr... AIMEE GARCIA I think the hardest thing about my life is that I've met so many people all over the world who I... CAT POWER I don't think college athletes are given enough time to really take advantage of the free educat... RICHARD SHERMAN Surgeons are not technicians; they're not mechanics. They're artists. I see patterns where n... LEONARD SHLAIN A lot of things that I can't get into the room for, even just to be seen, is because they're... SANDRA OH I couldn't do that as attorney general. Why? Because they are my clients. You can't say they... CHRISTINE GREGOIRE I'm just here for good times, man. I want people to have the best time ever. Especially if they&... TRAVIS SCOTT I love Los Angeles, and I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love... ANDY WARHOL They may well say not only is this not true, but I will put in an injunction to prevent publication.... IAN HISLOP You have to make the effort with children. You can't have them thinking that I reckon I'm sp... NOEL GALLAGHER I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they'... A. S. BYATT I hate the analyzing thing. People say, 'Why do you think your character did that? I don't k... SAMANTHA MORTON Everybody will say that they're not opposed to immigration; they're opposed to illegal immig... SAM BROWNBACK People come up to me all the time and say, 'Oh, I love to watch Food Network,' and I ask the... MICHAEL SYMON Both labels are super awesome, with super awesome people who want to get stuff done. The biggest dif... KING TUFF I don't like to kick people when they're down. I like to kick people when they're up. JIMMY FALLON Hollywood people want to build you up and make you famous only to knock you off you're the pedes... MORGAN BRITTANY People are trying to act like they're balling all day with cars, their house, like there's n... REMY MA For an actor, you're rejected eight or ten times a day. All you've got to sell is yourself. ... BARRY CORBIN
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JOHNSON There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in co... JOHNSON If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser. JOHNSON No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves. JOHNSON Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but... JOHNSON To have gold is to be in fear, and to want it to be sorrow. JOHNSON Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other. JOHNSON He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them... JOHNSON Language is the dress of thought. JOHNSON Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom. JOHNSON One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memo... JOHNSON There was a time, in the not so distant past, that if you didn't have what you needed on Thanksg... MONICA JOHNSON I don't know if I have a brand. I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who ju... ZACH JOHNSON I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career. ZACH JOHNSON I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to ge... ZACH JOHNSON When I'm off the golf course, and my wife and I have free time, which is not very often, we real... ZACH JOHNSON I'm not the most charismatic, maybe emotional, fun-packed individual on the golf course; I get t... ZACH JOHNSON My boring, mundane, diligent kind of golf works sometimes. Actually, it works all the time. And some... ZACH JOHNSON I feel like God gave me the ability to play a game. I try to take it very seriously. I realize it... ZACH JOHNSON I'm a Christian guy, and when it comes to my priorities, it's the utmost. For me, just to ca... ZACH JOHNSON There are a bunch of places to stay in Des Moines, but I'd suggest finding a place on the west s... ZACH JOHNSON Whenever I'm in Des Moines, I always make a trip to Manhattan Deli for a sandwich. I spent a lot... ZACH JOHNSON Elmcrest CC, in Cedar Rapids, is where it all started when I was growing up. The tree-lined course h... ZACH JOHNSON I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwe... ZACH JOHNSON Some people thought I'd be on the PGA Tour, that I'd win tournaments, play in majors, conten... ZACH JOHNSON The Zach Johnson Foundation, for my wife and I, is very much a part of what we do and why we do what... ZACH JOHNSON