Playing With People's Lives Quotes

#1. We're all damaged somehow.-A Great and Terrible Beauty

Libba Bray

#2. You are the main character in the story of your life, but other people are the main characters of their own lives. And sometimes you can find healing just by playing a supporting role in someone else's experience.

Timothy Kurek

#3. What is it with you women? You come into out lives, you take everythin'! Throughtout the years you got little peces of me, of my very soul, and now? Now you got my damn straight razor! How am I supposed to kill people? How am I supposed to even shave? - Billy-Ray Sanguine

Derek Landy

#4. I've always been a fan of issues around race and racialism, and I've loved playing with it. People act as though it isn't an issue, but it's a recurring theme in our lives globally.

Trevor Noah

#5. I'm profoundly changed. There's a bittersweet emotion that I feel from playing this role ... I want the world to be different because I was here. However lofty or crazy or delusional that may sound, I want people's lives to be better because I was here.

Will Smith

#6. Secrets can remind us of the countless human dramas, of frailty and heroism playing out silently in the lives of people all around us.

Frank Warren

#7. It's been a little tough just because we've been playing so much. Your lives are getting a little more complicated than they were straight out of college when we first started. People are starting to get married, have families and all, it becomes more of a challenge. It's not an easy lifestyle.

Barry Privett

#8. I loved music - listening and playing - but of course I could not imagine I would be a professional musician. It really happened step by step.

Rokia Traore

#9. Authority is granted to people who are perceived as authoring their own words, their own actions, their own lives, rather than playing a scripted role at great remove from their own hearts.

Parker J. Palmer

#10. I hope this scene isn't playing out all over the nation. People like me struggling to grab what they can. Whole families, even. Grasping at the leftover shards of their lives.

Daniel H. Wilson

#11. The inability to love and accept yourself and your humanity is at the heart of many illnesses. To be loved and accepted, you must start by loving yourself. If you have traits that you consider unlovable, you must love them anyway ... it's a paradox.

Christiane Northrup

#12. You can learn about how people think by playing with their lives, but that's inhumane.

Yoon Ha Lee

#13. Maybe money can't buy love - but it can get you practically everything else.

Debbie Macomber

#14. Part of the reason of being an actor is you like playing other people's lives and exploring all the psychologies in that and the emotions.

Nicole Kidman

#15. I really like playing good guys, of course. Although, people make mistakes in their lives, and you could say that the mistakes make us who we are, by how we respond to them. I just don't want to play boring good guys, but I don't have that problem, anyway.

Lance Henriksen

#16. All analysts spend half their time hunting through the literature for inequalities which they want to use and cannot prove.

G.H. Hardy

#17. Music is one of the most efficient mood elevators we have. People in nursing homes, whether ambulatory or even bedridden, whether lucid or not, would be provided with great pleasure by your playing. Maybe they could even dream, return to the best times in their lives, when they were loved.

Nancy Thayer

#18. Your mission is to find a product or service that can positively impact the lives of 1 billion people because that's the game we're playing today.

Peter Diamandis

#19. I'm all about real drama, real performance, and real people, so my twist on this is: I'm creating a family, a brotherhood here. I'm creating a very real chemistry and I have this incredible ensemble of actors led by Will Smith, who are basically playing dimensional characters with lives and souls.

David Ayer

#20. Hoax needed to complete the premises of truth.

Toba Beta

#21. As an actor, I'm always playing solitary characters. But as a director, I'm always making ensemble movies, which focus on lots of people's lives and how they intertwine.

Jodie Foster

#22. I do believe anybody manufacturing products for healthcare cannot regard it truly as a 100 per cent business: it is business plus a humanitarian approach to society because you are saving lives. You are playing with people's lives.

Yusuf Hamied

#23. The only difference between heaven and hell is believing a thought.

Byron Katie

#24. Spain, for so long a mere geographical expression, was somehow transformed into an historical fact.

J.H. Elliott

#25. There's music that can affect people in their lives, and they will always relate to the point that they heard it and experienced it, either if you're playing it or you're receptive, as an audience.

Jimmy Page