Joe Mantegna Quotes

I have my own way of dividing people, as I suppose most of us have. There are those whom I can talk to, and those whom I can't.

I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.

Social does not just equal Facebook. Social is how people interact anywhere.

I have found that most of the things I want from living I must get from people.

I'm just incredibly interested in people.

Mother, sister, daughter, wife, cousins - they are a part of your everyday life. You interact with them, communicate, altercate and that they would have an influence on your everyday life is obvious.

My house is going - kids running out, my wife is running in and out - but I like to sit down and have breakfast.

The only thing people are interested in is people.

From my perspective, most of my life has been dealing with the day-to-day, kitchen-to-bedroom-to-living-room-to-garage life with people. Most people are just trying to figure out how to love the people in their world, to love their God and to deal with some of these questions about God.

There isn't a story written that isn't about blood and money. People and their relationship to each other is the blood, the family. And how they live, the money of it.

People [are] as much a source of entertainment as they [are] a source of irritation. it keep[s] things balanced.

As complicated as joint custody is, it allows the delicious contradiction of having children and maintaining the intimacy of life-before-kid s.

That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities-that sense of a family being like a kitchen midden: layer upon layer of the things daily life is made of. The edifice that lovers build is by comparison delicate and one-dimensional.

I find people confusing.

The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.

I feel very open with people, and I'm good at disarming them and having conversations.

I like to see how people interact with each other and I draw from that. I'm inspired by that.

Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children.

It was so weird, because usually I was totally nervous talking to guys. But Eli was different. He made me want to say more, not less. Which was maybe not a good thing.

In my opinion when you speak about relationships between people, you are actually talking about everything in their world because everything is contained in that relationship.

The 1st day, I stood in the kitchen leaning against the counter watching Annie feed the cats, and I knew I wanted to do that forever.

Family isn’t something that’s supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They’re born, they die. It’s always evolving, turning into something else.

So you’ll have to wait for approval from your grandchildren.” “I wonder what our grandchildren will be like!” “Are you suggesting by that ‘our’ that you and I will have mutual grandchildren? Fie, Mrs. Kennedy!

Marriage is the permanent conversation between two people who talk over everything and everyone until death breaks the record.

I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.