Me Quotes

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'

It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by "survival of the fittest."

Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me.

I retain what's interesting to me, but I don't have a lot of strategic depth.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

It strikes me as odd that the free exercise of religious faith is sometimes treated as a problem, something America is stuck with instead of blessed with.

I think Barack Obama is a socialist. I think he cares for his country - don't get me wrong about that - but I think he truly misunderstands what this country was based upon, the values that America was based upon, which was free enterprise and having the ability to risk your capital and having a chance to have a return on your investment.

I give thanks everyday that I've been able to take my craziness and make it work for me.

To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.

And time for reflection with colleagues is for me a lifesaver; it is not just a nice thing to do if you have the time. It is the only way you can survive.

I don't excercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor.

Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

I have good looking kids. Thank goodness my wife cheats on me.

Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

I am the number one Ninja and I have killed all the Shoguns in front of me.

I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.