- Influence
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- 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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
White people scare the crap out of me.
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
No I don't miss fighting, I still got my wits about me and there are a lot of people who do it and get beat up, and I don't want to be one of them, I have children to raise.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have a winner and a loser and that doesn't bother me, I am man enough to accept that.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born first to music. But I went into acting because my father knew so much about music he intimidated me. So, I picked an art form, he knew nothing about. So I could be my own man.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the theater of me.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was very little my mother would read to me in bed. She gave me a fascination for stories, and for the music in words.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
It gives me confidence to know that what I'm writing has a veracity of its own without me having to invent it. When I'm writing fiction, I must believe it to be true, or I can see no point in it.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
Impossible doesn't concern me. My job is to dream.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at any 15 pieces of mine, nobody does a piece like them. Totally new techniques. All the jugglers are stealing from me and claiming that they've done it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Basically, we've grown up very focused on the institution. The institution tells me what to do. It tells me where to go. It tells me what my career path is, and then I, sort of, attach my own personal desires, my own personal interests. I think we're living in a time where we're going to have to change - to put people in the center.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
People have been afraid of me because of the parts I played. Nobody remembers that I was the dad in 'Free Willy.'
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020