Action Quotes

"We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us."

"We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts."

"When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it."

"I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down."

"I'd call what I do pop music, but it's folky and electronic and it doesn't really sound like much else."

"Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically."

"People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to."

"You used to have to sing and convey emotion, and now, well, technically you can do anything with technology. It sucks for music today, but that's why that old music feels so good to me."

"Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it."

"When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do."

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."

"No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."

"Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer."

"If your movies don't perform, they just stop calling you."

"I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act."

"When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least had a glimpse when I went on the Universal Studios tour with my grandfather, I remember feeling like this was another means by which I could do magic."

"The one benefit of having done all kinds of movies as an actor is, you learn the pros and cons of being tempted to do a really big movie because it costs a lot of money."

"I kinda see my current position like this: Here's your five minutes in the toy store, so you gotta do all the good movies you can before 'Chuck Woolery' rings the bell."

"I do enjoy animated movies."

"I have eclectic tastes in the movies I want to do."