Menu

 Authors
A B C D E F
G H I J K L
M N O P Q R
S T U V W S
Y Z
Get Socialize
My Account
Make Free Wallpaper

5960 Actor Quotes

I said, I'm on this TV show and I love doing it, but I don't want to be known always as the silly 'Scrubs' guy... So part of me was like, You know what? Life's short. Let's go for it.

Life TV Love Short
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Realistically, I don't let any of criticisms get to me. I know who I am, I know what I am, I know what I'm capable of, and if these guys have faith in what I'm doing, as I have faith in what they're doing, nothing can stop me.

Capable Faith Stop Criticisms
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The crowd response has always been great, we always have fun at the shows and we will definitely be back representing our album to give people entertainment with a stage show, most rap shows are boring.

Crowd Great Show Entertainment
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Love is like a friendship caught on fire: in the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

Love Friendship Caught Fire
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The worst thing to call somebody is crazy. It's dismissive.

Worse Call Crazy Dismissive
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself especially when everybody is watching

True Hard Thing Yourself
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I think every group of black guys should have at least one white guy.

Group Black Every Should
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Things like racism are institutionalized. You might not know any bigots. You feel like

Racism Bigots Feel Hate
  Favorite Make wallpaper

No matter how old you are, if a little kid hands you a toy phone… you answer it.

Matter Old Answer Phone
  Favorite Make wallpaper

If you don’t have the right people around you and you’re moving at a million miles an hour, you can lose yourself.

Lose People Right Around
  Favorite Make wallpaper
I'm famous today. People like me today. Might not like me tomorrow. You can't count on it.
Famous Today Might Count
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I support anyone’s right to be who they want to be. My question is: to what extent do I have to participate in your self-image?

Support Question Extent Right
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The only way you can know where the line is is if you cross it.

Cross Way Know Line
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The world can’t tell you who you are. You’ve just got to figure out who you are and be there, for better or worse.

World Figure Worse Better
  Favorite Make wallpaper

When I’m on stage, I get real happy there. Maybe that’s the only time in my adult life I feel like myself.

Stage Happy Time Adult
  Favorite Make wallpaper

People don’t know what it’s like standing up there on stage when you have a wall of people smiling at you.

People Wall Stand Stage
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Everyone around me says, “You’re a genius! You’re great! That’s your voice! But I’m not sure if they’re right.

Around Genius Great Voice
  Favorite Make wallpaper

You can become famous but you can’t become unfamous. You can become infamous but not unfamous.

Become Famous Unfamous Infamous
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I’m cool with failing so long as I know that there are people around me that love me unconditionally.

Cool Long Around Love
  Favorite Make wallpaper
If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher.
Comedy Teacher Salary Doing
  Favorite Make wallpaper

My wife asked me once if I weren’t a comedian what I would do. I couldn’t answer the question. I never imagined doing anything else.

Answer Wife Anything Comedian
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I always take a relationship to the next level. If that works out, I take it to the next level after that, until I finally reach that level when it becomes absolutely necessary for me to leave.

Always Become Relationship Leave
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.

Admire Bright Intelligent Life
  Favorite Make wallpaper

To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.

About Best Couple Done
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

Boring Going Here Know
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I don't see any boundaries between any of the art forms. I think they all inter-relate completely.

Any Art Between Boundaries
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.
Really Some Songs Strangely
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.

Always Had Human More
  Favorite Make wallpaper

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

Band Behind Dad Get
  Favorite Make wallpaper

But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work as his legacy. That's all that life allowed him.

Album Allowed Got Guy
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.

Frankly Input Interesting Interpretations
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I believe that I often bring out the best in somebody's talents.

Believe Best Bring Often
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

Arts Back Felt Just
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

About Articulate Does Explaining
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way.

Approach Artist Back Being
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.

Feel Individual Just Need
  Favorite Make wallpaper

It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.

After Amazes Analyze Intelligent
  Favorite Make wallpaper

On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.

Awaken Demons Ghosts Hand
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.

Across Chords Few Place
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.

Arriving Course Departing Journey
  Favorite Make wallpaper

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.

Along Always Been Chords
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.

Always Amazed Even People
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.

Denial Image Korean Many
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.

Apart Big Important Instance
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song.

Anything Colour Expression Like
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

Absence Absolute Challenging Confront
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be.

Amazing Anywhere Else Lived
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing.

Any Away Does Longer
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I've made over 25 studio albums, and I think probably I've made two real stinkers in my time, and some not-bad albums, and some really good albums. I'm proud of what I've done. In fact it's been a good ride.

Albums Been Done Fact
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it's like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You'd better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that's really the only unique situation that's going to be left.

Advantage Again Become Better
  Favorite Make wallpaper