Action Quotes

"I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of."

"Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed."

"If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real' was at risk, what would you do? You'd live a gigantic, bold, fun, dazzling life. You know you would. That's what the ghosts want us to do - all the exciting things they no longer can."

"Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it."

"Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity."

"Act like you expect to get into the end zone."

"I find what I do for a living really funny. I mean, acting is kind of a hilarious thing for a grown man to call a job."

"I do like taking stuff seriously that a lot of people look at as nonsense. I enjoy the insanity of that. And I like the commitment that is needed for that."

"I tend to think you're fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway."

"No, only disappointment in myself on those occasions I didn't manage to rise to the occasion as I felt I should've done. I can always see how to do it, and then the challenge is, Can I manage that each and every day?"

"It's not who I am underneath but what I do that defines me."

"Slash sat me down at his house and said, You've got to clean up your act. You know you've gone too far when Slash is saying, Look, you've got to get into rehab."

"I still don't have all the answers. I'm more interested in what I can do next than what I did last."

"My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do."

"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known."

"“It's always best on these occasions to do what the mob do.”  “But supppose there are two mobs?” suggested Mr. Snodgrass.  “Shout with the largest,” replied Mr. Pickwick."

"I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star."

"The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct."

"Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed."

"Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new."