Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Selleck

I've never reacted well to other people telling me what to do

Tom Shadyac

Communism didn't work because people weren't ready for it, it was corrupt, and because it squelched individualism.

Tom Shadyac

I don't consider anything I'm doing as generous. In the new model of the world, I hope people will consider whatever I'm doing as just normal.

Tom Shadyac

I don't have any interest in changing a system, because the system will simply get bucked back by people who haven't changed.

Tom Kenny

Some people like doing crossword puzzles or Sudoku. I love auditioning. On camera, I hated auditioning. But voiceovers I like trying to figure it out, then getting in there and seeing how close you can get.

Tom Hollander

I meet people who are famous, and it's made me realise that fame has huge lifestyle disadvantages. I'm nervous about that. I don't want to become a celebrity.

Tom Hollander

For me, faith is more about aspiration than complacency - the smug satisfaction that other people find distasteful.

Tom Hooper

Actors enjoy being treated as ordinary people.

Tom Hooper

I would say L.A. is more polite than London - it's a very careful place. People talk a lot in code.

Tom Hooper

I find that after a screening, people really want to come and tell you what they feel.

Tom Jones

People never talked about my music. They just counted how many knickers were on stage.

Tom Hodgkinson

The world's richest half billion people - that's about seven per cent of the global population - are responsible for fifty per cent of the world's emissions.

Tom Hodgkinson

One aspect of fast London life I have never understood, for example, is the custom of the gym. Why do people go to gyms?

Tom Hodgkinson

Being good to people is the only insurance policy you need.

Tom Hiddleston

I suppose my understanding of villains is that they're just people who are infected by all of the darker instincts - that they haven't got the discipline to make the right choices.

Toni Morrison

All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.

Toni Morrison

I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people.

Toni Morrison

I wish I’d a knowed more people. I would of loved ‘em all. If I’d a knowed more, I would a loved more

Tommy Douglas

Setting people to spy on one another is not the way to protect freedom.

Tommy Cooper

And the back of his anorak was leaping up and down, and people were chucking money to him. I said 'Do you earn a living doing that?' He said 'Yes, this my livelihood.'

Tommy Chong

Now the [smartphone] has freed everybody, and so everybody gets better. No matter what you say, people will check you out on their phone.

Tommy Chong

The good thing about poverty is it keeps you from getting in trouble because if you can't afford drugs, people will stop giving them to you very quickly. So, being poor really helps - it's the success that kills you.

Tommy Chong

If more people were stoned there would be less violence in the world.

Tom Verlaine

The first time I met Patti Smith was in a laundromat. We knew some of the same people, including Richard Hell.

Tom Verlaine

I just don't like people coming up to me and saying something. It immediately makes you become insincere. There is no way you can react to it sincerely.

Tom T. Hall

My theory is if you have a religion, it's a good one. Because some people don't have any at all.

Tom Stoppard

You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires.

Tom Stoppard

I will take his secret to the grave, telling people I meet on the way.

Tom Stoppard

I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get to meet.

Tom Stoppard

The tragedy of journalism is that these are people doing their best work.

Tom Stoppard

I've got no interest in educating or instructing people.

Tom Stoppard

The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work.

Tom Stoppard

If you took away everything in the world that had to be invented, there'd be nothing left except a lot of people getting rained on.