- 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
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like the challenge and instant gratification of landing a new jump or learning a new element. That made me fall in love with the sport.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ever since I started skating, making the Olympic team was my ultimate dream. It's what has inspired and motivated me throughout my entire career.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's reassuring knowing that people are supporting me and want to know more about me. It comes with being the national champion and making the Olympic team. I think that it's telling me I'm on the right path.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Skating is a sport that I found a lot of interest in from a very, very young age. Ultimately, I think that being on the ice, being in the cold, and trying things and challenging myself in different ways is something that made me really interested in skating.
- Outside
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- Nov 07, 2020
Largely, I began skating because I wanted stuff to do outside of school. My mom decided to put me into figure skating.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Olympics really started motivating me from the very start. That was my dream from the very beginning.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel very lucky that I have this career that allows me to say, 'I'm ready to start now on this project,' and I can go and do it.
- Comedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's much funnier when the comedy can happen with me just trying my best to genuinely do a good thing.
- Difficult Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Social interactions have always been a bit of a difficult thing for me. I think I have a natural tendency to make people not 100 percent super comfortable.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once in a while, I do these things that would make the 10-year old version of me laugh. I don't know why. You've got to do something a little bit immature. I'm surprised at how often those are my best ideas.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't spend a lot of time online. My mother's really good at picking out if she sees a really great review, and she'll forward it to me. She's like my little Internet filter. It's always nice to see something going up; if I want to find something on Nathan Fillion, I do know where to look, but I've got a nice little delivery system in my mom.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a Ford F-250. It was a big ol' farm truck, but it wasn't a rig. That's about the biggest I've ever driven. That's what I drove back and forth to high school. I was a poor guy, and it was a truck that my uncle owned and let me drive because I had no money.
- Pride
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm the one who often makes the 'Murder, She Wrote' reference, and ABC hates that, they don't want me to do that. And I say that having never actually watched 'Murder, She Wrote'. I think people have been trying to compare it to crime shows that are on right now, and all I can do is listen. I don't watch a lot of TV.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Desperate Housewives' is an ensemble cast, where I played a tertiary character. I made a lot of great friends, but that show didn't keep me very busy.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.
- Finally
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- Nov 07, 2020
It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020