Top 71 Quotes About Everyman
#1. I certainly have never been an actor who can play the Everyman guy - or, I don't tend to get those parts. I've tended to play eccentrics. I've played a lot of villains, of course.
Christopher Walken
#3. The mission of Everyman is to fulfill the lies he incarnates, to succeed in being no more than an exhaust illusion.
Emil M. Cioran
#4. A photograph of poverty is not a photograph but it is a knife that sticks into the hearts of everyman who looks at it!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#5. People are probably correct when they see me as the so-called Everyman. I'm attracted primarily to contemporary characters. I understand them and their frustrations.
Jack Lemmon
#6. You obviously can't cast Brad [Pitt] as an everyman guy because he just brings way too much baggage.
Andrew Dominik
#7. It's a rite of passage for the everyman, to a higher ground.
Bob Seger
#8. While it is certainly the biographer's business to describe the foibles, passions and idiosyncrasies which make his subject a person, his work will be very meagre if these individual traits are not also seen as part of a universal drama - for each man's life is also the story of Everyman.
Iris Origo
#9. Where everyman is participator in the government of affairs, not merely at an election one day in the year but everyday, he will let the heart be torn out of his body sooner than his power be wrested from him by a Caesar or a Bonaparte.
Thomas Jefferson
#10. I am not a member of the chamber of commerce for show business, believe me, but there are some really good people in the business, and [Tom] Hanks has this everyman decency onscreen, but he actually is that guy.
Kurt Fuller
#11. There is no mountain anywhere everyman ignorance is his own mountain
David Oyedepo
#12. I'm hesitant to do leading man character roles because I think they can be a little boring in terms of needing to be the everyman who navigates the amazing stuff around them.
Alexander Koch
#13. Because of poverty and ignorance, not everyman living on earth lives in the same epoch!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#14. Everyman, I will go with thee and be thy guide, in thy most need to go by thy side
Anonymous
#15. Conservatism must be based on allowing everyone to become an owner - equity for everyman.
John Redwood
#16. Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#17. I am that 'everyman' in that I have made every mistake you can make in your career and in your personal life. But I am a survivor.
Joe Piscopo
#18. We're designed to be hunters and we're in a society of shopping. There's nothing to kill anymore, there's nothing to fight, nothing to overcome, nothing to explore. In that societal emasculation this everyman is created.
David Fincher
#19. It is time we learnt that a terrorist is no man's friend and everyman's enemy.
Amir Taheri
#20. How could he have been so stupid, so blind? David pictured after Goliath could be no one but the biblical David, a special individual. He was not content to portray one man; he was seeking universal man, Everyman, all of whom,from the beginning of time,
had faced a decision to strike for freedom
Irving Stone
#21. A smile is a humble hidden treasure everyman has been endowed with that does not reveal itself until it is called for.
Seyi Ayoola
#22. Every day, almost as many men are killed at work as were killed during the average day in Vietnam. For men, there are, in essence, three male-only drafts: the draft of men to all the wars; the draft of Everyman to unpaid bodyguard; the draft of men to all the hazardous jobs or 'death professions.
Warren Farrell
#23. I'm the guy, I'm kind of like the, uh, Everyman, so I think people just relate to that.
Kato Kaelin
#24. History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.
Robert Anton Wilson
#25. It's more fun having him as everyman in the 25th Century. It is better to concentrate on what this planet will be like 500 years from now, and not be dealing with little aliens in space and all that related stuff.
Gil Gerard
#27. I think 'Shameless' is more of an everyman's show, whereas as great as I think 'Girls' is, it's got a smaller audience.
Jeremy Allen White
#28. 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
#29. A beautiful woman always has her own place in everyman's heart.
M.F. Moonzajer
#30. I've only played two sort-of slackers, in Spaced and in Shaun Of The Dead. They're different people, but they have the same kind of everyman quality, particularly as a twentysomething.
Simon Pegg
#31. Midnight is not in everyman's reach.
Rene Char
#32. You need a wisecracking buddy standing next to you? That's the role for me. You got the guys who are knock-down, drag-out handsome. That's what people want to see. Let that guy be the hero. But there's always a role for the Everyman.
Billy Gardell
#33. Making a judgment, taking a stand and then acting against an injustice or acting to support excellence is the stuff of the everyman hero. If you are an aspiring artist and you wish to avoid "judgments," you'll find that you have nothing to say.
Steven Pressfield
#34. The wealth God has given to everyman is the wealth of TIME.
Sunday Adelaja
#35. Everyman is thoroughly happy twice in his life, just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one.
H.L. Mencken
#36. I started acting when I got a summer job at the Everyman Theater Company with the Neighborhood Youth Corps.
Robert Gossett
#37. Much of the character of everyman may be read in his house.
John Ruskin
#38. Because I look like Everyman on some level, I would say I get recognized once or twice a day.
David Costabile
#39. Man must behave like a lighthouse; he must shine day and night for the goodness of everyman.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#40. 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
#41. '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
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. There are a lot of actors that I really love to watch, actors who I have fun watching - I think Johnny Depp is phenomenal. But I wouldn't want that career as much as I'd like a career like Tom Hanks - he kind of represents the everyman.
Jared Padalecki
#46. In a society where everyman is fox-minded, you need to be foxier than the fox!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#47. Everyman has the ability to lie but luckily not everyman has the ability to hide their lies masterly!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. Luxury life is good if everyman living on earth can benefit from it! Otherwise, it is injustice!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#52. 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
#54. The first thing I thought [when I read the script] was that Frasier was an intellectual at some points but also an Everyman - flawed and very insecure.
Kelsey Grammer
#55. For me, comedy is constantly presented as this fake casualness, like a guy just walked on stage going, 'This crazy thing happened to me the other day.' And he's in front of 3000 people, and he's acting like an everyman, and he's getting paid so much money.
Bo Burnham
#56. All you have done is to be different from other women and you have made a little success of it. This is unforgivable sin in any society. The mere fact that you have succeed to run the mill is an insult to everyman who hasn't succeed.
Margaret Mitchell
#57. Everyman and every living being have the same birth day: The birthday of the universe is our real birthday!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#58. The world is holy! The soul is holy! The skin is holy!
The nose is holy! The tongue and cock and hand
and asshole holy!
Everything is holy! everybody's holy! everywhere is
holy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman's an
angel!
Allen Ginsberg
#59. 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
#60. I've played all these extreme guys, but playing an everyman type has its own challenges.
Andrew Scott
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. I'm the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys' school in Sydney.
Alex O'Loughlin
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. P4- the history that now effects everyman is world history
C. Wright Mills
#69. 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
#70. Jews are just like everyone else, only more so.
Lionel Blue
#71. For he that will say and nothing do
Is not worthy with good company to go.
Anonymous
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