Came Quotes

It was with 9/11 that I came to fully appreciate and embrace NPR's irreplaceability as a sanity preserver, its unique virtues as first responder on the burning scene.

What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.

So when it came to role models, I looked at presidents' wives. Of course, you're talking about a farm girl who stood in the fields, dreaming, years ago, wishing she was that kind of person. But if I had been that kind of person, do you think I could sing with the emotions I do? You sing with those emotions because you've had pain in your heart.

I wish I came from a more pure place. I don't have something to say from the bottom of my soul. I just know how to take stuff I like and repackage it in a slightly different way.

When Roosevelt came along, I approved of his program, generally. I figured an economic system should work for people, not vice versa.

My show was revolutionary, ground-breaking. When I came on the scene, people were not doing a thing.

I came to the conclusion that I am not a fiction writer.

So that when I came to New York again, it was, I'm not too sure right now, but it was '74 or '75. I went to Miami in '74 and then I came to New York, I think, at the end of '74.

My dad got me a huge board when I was little. He loves to surf. He suited me up and sent me out on this huge wave. I went under, and when I came out and the board hit me in the face. So I said, I never wanted to do this again. I stayed away until I was 13.

The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and wanted to be paid for it.

I was lucky enough when it came to sports and work ethic to be taught some basics that continue to be important.

Children's finger-painting came under the arts, but movies didn't.

We have closely monitored the ups and downs of recruiting and retention trends for many years and have been quick to sound the alarm when challenges came into view.

Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?

At the Isle of Wight, the sound went out and kind of kept on going. And I wasn't... when I came off stage I was kind of unhappy about how we had played. But now, I listen back to those recordings and it's not bad.

My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.

I've played heavies for years and years and years. I was bald. I came to Hollywood. I did a play about junk. I was a pusher, so I played pushers for years and years and years. I did war movies and things like that.

I like to get within handshaking distance of the crowd. If it happens, they know it, we know it, and that's all we came here for.

When they came to you for your line, you had to be ready and you had to get it in one.

We came off the road of the last tour very inspired to just keep playing, so we went to Canada.

My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run by the mob. The only gay people he'd met when I came out to him were corpses.

One day I had an idea for a movie. Everything came after that.

Our parents came home one day and heard us, and they thought it was the radio, but our grandfather told them it was us.

Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.

I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself.

I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.

There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.

When the second record came out, they started calling it The Band. I voted to call it The Crackers. I'm no fool.

I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise.

I guess The Grudge made over $100 million, but none of them had long legs after they came out but they all opened up and found an audience. If you could make those movies for a price, which is what I want to do with Spawn, then you could have some success.