ordinary behavior Quotes

Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

I watch soap operas. I bake brownies. Normalcy is coursing through my veins.

I've been called funny. I assume my wife thinks I'm funny. But generally, if you bumped into me and said hello, I would say hello back, politely. And that would be it.

It was nothing, just the normal thing to do at the time.

I don't walk around like I'm a movie star because I don't think of myself as a movie star. People usually don't even notice me.

I did what every American would have done. My neighbor would have done the same thing—Any Jewish, Christian, Sikh, Muslim…. I'm not a hero, the cops are the hero.

I find the most normal things about famous people to be the most fascinating.

I go to the club just like a normal person. I might go to the studio, but I go everywhere like a normal person would.

There's a lot of letters, and a lot of people come say "hi" at book signings, but I'm amazed at how normal everybody is.

I thought if only I had a keen, shapely bone structure to my face or could discuss politics shrewdly or was a famous writer Constantin might find me interesting enough to sleep with. And then I wondered if as soon as he came to like me he would sink into ordinariness, and if as soon as he came to love me I would find fault, the way I did with Buddy Willard and the boys before him.

There's not one part of me that wants to go crazy and do anything out of the ordinary, but it would be nice to do something and not have it spread all over the place. But that's the world we live in now, and you either have to accept it or figure it out - or become a villain, I guess.

When I go home, I am a slug. I want to do everything completely opposite of what I do on the red carpet. I like to take off all my makeup, put on a t-shirt, be completely unassuming and just do stuff with my husband and my daughter.

Well, of course, people are only human... But it really does not seem much for them to be.

I am not a special person. I am a regular person who does special things.

What we call 'normal' in psychology is really a psychopathology of the average, so undramatic and so widely spread that we don't even notice it ordinarily.

The weird thing is I have now met quite a lot of people who are really famous but they are always disappointingly normal and nice. Alan Carr is very nice indeed. Exactly how you would expect him to be, and not that different from how he is on stage.

Famous people are deceptive. Deep down, they're just regular people. Like Larry King. We've been friends for forty years. He's one of the few guys I know who's really famous. One minute he's talking to the president on his cell phone, and then the next minute he's saying to me, 'Do you think we ought to give the waiter another dollar?'

I'm a pretty normal guy. I'm really good at knowing how a normal guy would react in situations.

I just think it's useful for people to know that even if you are off the telly you're just an ordinary person who uses the Tube.

I've worked my butt off. That keeps my feet on the ground - I'm the same Luis Fonsi onstage and at home cooking an omelette in basketball shorts.

In my everyday life, I'm pretty normal.

No doubt many people working in race relations sincerely want to make things better. But by constantly drawing attention to race and policing ordinary behavior, they risk making things worse.

I still mess around and joke with my family and friends like I did when I was nine or 10. For me, nothing's changed. Sure, I play football, but I try to keep my life off the pitch as simple as possible.

Getting into the Hall of Fame won't change me. I'm still going to pass gas and pick my nose like I always do.

I play computer games, watch TV and do what normal people do.