Angelina Jolie Quote

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

William Somerset Maugham

• People
• Praise

People ask me this, but I've never sought to be on an A-list. I've done my own thing and my own thing has thankfully now brought me an audience.

Mira Nair

I always wanted to do more plays but I never quite understood how you got asked to do a play. I had done house plays, but they were sort of skits.

Jeremy Irons

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Theodore Roosevelt

People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk.

Stephen King

What the Dalai Lama had to resolve was whether to stay in Tibet or leave. He wanted to stay, but staying would have meant the total destruction of Tibet, because he would have died and that would have ripped the heart out of his people.

Martin Scorsese

I don't want to offend people.

Isaac Mizrahi

I only want people around me who can do the impossible.

Elizabeth Arden

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Napoleon Bonaparte

• Self-discovery

When people ask, Do you like children? I always say, I like some children, yes. Some children I don't like.

Isaac Mizrahi

• Children

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

Michael Jordan

• People

I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.

Natalie Portman

• People

The heart will break, but broken live on.

Lord Byron

• Heart
• Life

People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.

Ellen DeGeneres

• Funny

The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.

Jean Cocteau

When you sing and people want that you sing, then you can hope to be great.

Andrea Bocelli

• Hope

The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.

Gustave Flaubert

• Heart

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

Emily Dickinson

• Heart

People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.

Paulo Coelho

• Life
• Change

I'm happy for people who want to get married. It's not my thing.

Charlize Theron