Everyman For Himself Quotes

#1. Because I look like Everyman on some level, I would say I get recognized once or twice a day.

David Costabile

#2. Patrick Swayze reminded me a lot of Gene Kelly. Patrick had that Everyman quality. Gene made dancing sort of an accessible idea for the regular guy out there.

Kenny Ortega

#3. I've played all these extreme guys, but playing an everyman type has its own challenges.

Andrew Scott

#4. Jews are just like everyone else, only more so.

Lionel Blue

#5. How shall we embrace the common man: give us a reason without a doubt?
Is Everyman fated as an island unto himself 'til his last bright day goes by?

David B. Lentz

#6. Therefore, everyman, look to that last end that is thy death and the dust that gripeth on every man that is born of woman for as he came naked forth from his mother's womb so naked shall he wend him at the last for to go as he came.

James Joyce

#7. I happen to go for the simplest, most ordinary things. The extraordinary doesn't interest me. I'm not interested in psychotics. I'm interested in the person you don't expect to have a story. I like Everyman.

John Hughes

#8. I never wanted to make portraits - to photograph celebrities, beautiful people, beautiful landscapes, beautiful buildings, or people in distressing situations ... I have always been interested in everyman - average, ordinary people in everyday situations.

Ray Metzker

#9. I'm the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys' school in Sydney.

Alex O'Loughlin

#10. The ills attributed to an anthropomorphic abstraction called "society" may be laid more realistically at the door of Everyman. Utopia must spring in the private bosom before it can flower into civic virtue, inner reforms leading to outer ones. A man who has reformed himself will reform thousands.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#11. I've pretty much been portrayed as every style thing you can be. After Wimbledon you are Andy Everyman, who everybody is rooting for. I think the meat and potatoes of who I am hasn't been covered yet.

Andy Roddick

#12. P4- the history that now effects everyman is world history

C. Wright Mills

#13. I've got to say, I like being the everyman.

Martin Henderson

#14. For many people, I was a phase, a part of the period of growing up. People ask me why I connected. It was presumptuous of me to say, but I'm Everyman. The difference is I put my thoughts into words.

Rod McKuen

#15. Much of the character of everyman may be read in his house.

John Ruskin

#16. Every moment and every event of everyman's life on earth plants something in his soul. For just as the wind carries thousands of winged seeds, so each moment brings with it germs of spiritual vitality that come to rest imperceptibly in the minds and wills of men.

Thomas Merton

#17. Man must behave like a lighthouse; he must shine day and night for the goodness of everyman.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#18. The thing is, the Tulsa experience that I wrote about in 'The Outsiders' is closer to the universal experience than it would be if I wrote it from L.A. or New York. It's an everyman story.

S.E. Hinton

#19. 'Alice in Wonderland' has been done a million times; why do it again? Nerve's answer is that Alice is Everyman and Everywoman, going through the stages of life.

Kathe Koja

#20. I sought Ben Affleck because I needed an everyman for this role. Ben appeals to men and women. He gives you a sense of intelligence, the notion of a guy who can think on his feet.

John Frankenheimer

#21. Everyman is me. I am his brother. No man is my enemy. I am Everyman and he is in and of me. This is my faith, my strength, my deepest hope, and my only belief.

Kenneth Patchen

#22. We keep saying that we humans are all in the same boat. This is only physically true, but not mentally! For instance Stephen Hawking lives mentally on the space! Not everyman mentally lives on this planet!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#23. I started acting when I got a summer job at the Everyman Theater Company with the Neighborhood Youth Corps.

Robert Gossett

#24. In a society where everyman is fox-minded, you need to be foxier than the fox!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#25. Everyman has the ability to lie but luckily not everyman has the ability to hide their lies masterly!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#26. The British press isn't as vicious as it used to be, and these days it's sort of cool to care again. Everyone loves an everyman anthem.

Guy Garvey

#27. I'm not Brad Pitt or George Clooney. Those guys walk into a room and the room changes. I think there's something more ... not average, but everyman about me.

Matt Damon

#28. I really enjoy playing that everyman part because that part is us, the audience. And you need somebody inside a comedy to tether the absurdity to reality.

Jason Bateman

#29. Luxury life is good if everyman living on earth can benefit from it! Otherwise, it is injustice!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#30. Kermit was the Everyman, the original Tom Hanks, but I have a special place in my heart for Fozzie Bear. The classic borderline hacky entertainer.

Jason Segel