Keeps Quotes

I just feel lucky to have grown up where I did because I think it gave me a nice base. Hollywood can really mess with your sense of self and I feel like coming from the South keeps me pretty grounded.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

I'm open to sci-fi, but I was never a diehard fan. I have no idea why it keeps following me. I'm extremely lucky, I guess; it's a lucrative venue.

Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not sticking to one particular style.

I'm the sort of person who keeps a lot to myself.

I'm so in control of my life, you shouldn't dislike anything I do-because I'm not only in the best place I've ever been, but it keeps getting better and better.

Journalists are supposed to be skeptical, that's what keeps them digging rather than simply accepting the official line, whether it comes from government or corporate bureaucrats.

I think fear is what keeps us from going over the edge. I mean, as a race car driver, I don't think what makes a good race car driver is a fearless person. I think it's somebody that is comfortable being behind the wheel of something that's somewhat out of control.

What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.

Variety is very, very good. Going from medium to medium, if you get the chance to do it, from theater to television to film, which are all distinctly different, keeps me sharp. What works in one doesn't work in the other, and you have to be looking for the truth of the performance, whatever way that medium might demand.

A cause a day keeps reality away.

I always try to have something that keeps my mind relaxed, keeps my mind a little bit off tennis.

That's what keeps me up at three in the morning: Who's looking at reviews of Cabin Boy right now?

The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.

You don't make a fortune doing cartoons. It's a lot of fun, it keeps you busy, and it's better than a kick in the pants, absolutely. But doing voiceover work doesn't make you rich. It just doesn't.

Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!

You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work.

Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money.

Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.

A real idea keeps changing and appears in many places.

I like analyzing human behavior. It's complex. That's what keeps me going.

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

Oh, I have this feud going with the L.A. Unified School District, because I keep getting these phone calls saying my daughter keeps missing classes, I mean, at all hours of the night, I had like, two calls this morning and I keep calling saying I haven't got a daughter!

I want to keep fighting because it is the only thing that keeps me out of the hamburger joints. If I don't fight, I'll eat this planet.

The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.

Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them.

As much horror as we have always created, we are a species that keeps moving forward, seeing new sights in new ways, and enjoying the journey.

People come up to me and tell me how I changed their life and I've inspired them. And they tell me their stories, and that keeps me going.

A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

Free time keeps me going. It's just something that's always been a part of my life. I was originally a painter, and I made films sort of as an extension of that, and then I started to try to make dramatic films because the early films were experimental films.