- Nov 07, 2020
Me Quotes
Quotes rooted in the first person.
These are quotes centered on 'me' - childhood memories tied to family traditions, like a grandfather's holiday reading passed down for decades, alongside admissions about how humor can double as self-protection. Several speak to the solitary nature of creative work, something also explored in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole point of me doing a Christmas record and what I centered it around was the song 'Christmas with You' from the point-of-view of the soldiers in Iraq.
- Demons
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- Nov 07, 2020
You're always searching for the thing to heal you, and I thought therapy would give me that. But it didn't - it just helps you recognize your demons.
- Meditate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I meditate. Meditation helps me.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother would take it in turn and beat on me. I was an abused child. I was mad about all those things, very bitter and very angry.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, Rick James was just a man-made image, the image I created. Just trying to live Rick James almost killed me.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really never look at my health issues as 'Woe is me.' I've seen the reality of that. And it's not a pleasant thing.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have friends in Utah who care about me as a person, not for what I am. They'll call to see how my heart is, how my blood pressure is. That's important to me.
- Losing
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- Nov 07, 2020
You hear a lot of drivers say they'll quit when they're not enjoying it. That's pretty much what happened to me. It was a combination of things, but mostly it was losing that enthusiasm I always felt before.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, the American Dream was to go racing; for others, it's to pursue whatever their goals may be.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
But that incessant drive to be out there in the literary universe that was important to me when I was in my twenties, like going to a Paris Review party or whatever, that seems totally irrelevant now.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity.
- Single
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I took a sabbatical. I walked away from shooting movies because I couldn't handle the travel. I'm a single parent. I had young kids, and I found that keeping in touch with them from hotel rooms and airports wasn't working for me. So I stopped.
- Boring
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- Nov 07, 2020
The actual process of filmmaking, the many hours out of your life- it is very slow and boring. I'm not interested in that now unless an opportunity was provided for me.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the time I got to the point where I was 'starring' in movies, and I had executives telling me what lines to say, that wasn't for me. I'm really not an actor. I'm a guy who comes out of comedy, and my impetus was always to rewrite the line to make it funnier, not to try to make somebody's precious words work.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020