Top 72 Quotes & Sayings by Gary Busey

You know what 'DOUBT' stands for? It stands for 'Debate On Understanding Bewildersome Thoughts.'

You know what 'FAILING' stands for? It stands for 'Finding An Important Lesson, Inviting Needed Growth.'

I don't know where I come from but I'm here now so deal with it.

There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.

I love love, and I love life. I love. I just love. It's just great. It's the most enduring element we have is love.

Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.

Never dip lower than you can dip.

I've been told by doctors and surgeons that I have the energy of ten men who have normal jobs.

My dark side, my shadow, my lower companion is now in the back room blowing up balloons for kids' parties.

I'll tell you this: You have to remember to chase and catch your dreams, because if you don't, your imagination will live in empty spaces, and that's nowhere land.

If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.

I'm interested in all things that Donald Trump does. I've known him since 1980. He's a good man.

Amen is not the end of a prayer, it just gets us ready to go to the next level.

Have a mind that's open to everything, get attached to nothing.

It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse.

Winners do what losers don't want to do.

I'm not jealous, and I'm not possessive, and I'm not controlling.

Nothing changes like changes, because nothing changes but the changes.

Imagine the peace symbol. The peace symbol has three pieces in it. One piece is emotion, that's your body. Another piece has spirit in it, that's your fuel. Another piece has intellect in it and that's your steering wheel. You can never overdo the fuel that goes into the body, which is the emotions and the steering wheel to drive it.

I consider myself a Texan. I grew up in Texas and Oklahoma.

It's a very strange silence that I'm living in right now. It's a silence that has a lot of activity and noise in it from a zone that I don't live in on this earth.

I don't know how I got involved in 'Celebrity Wife Swap.' It came from my agent Hugh. He got the opportunity for me.

Light is actually the first word I said as a little baby.

Boy, it's a tough planet if you want it to be. But a great planet if you let it.

If you put that straight jacket on me, I am going to pull your endocrine system out of your body.

Acting is the absence of acting. It's believing in the truth of the moment you are creating.

I am proud to tell Hollywood that I am a Christian. For the first time I am now free to be myself.

The first time I saw Mikhail Baryshnikov it was like he had an anti-gravity machine in his pants. He would jump and stay in the air for 10 minutes.

Freedom is the freedom you choose, when you're not getting in your own way. The best way to start every day is to wake up and wash your face and look yourself in the mirror, right in the eyes of your reflection, and say, "don't get in my way." Because it's only when we get in our own way that we have to step back or step aside or step over here and not walk at all.

Pray for the best, prepare for the worst, and expect the unexpected.

Do you even know who I am? Seriously, tell me, because I don't.

I dont know where I come from but Im here now so deal with it.

Some people have different ways than yours of having fun. You can't judge 'em, you can't dismiss 'em, and you can't say, 'what an idiot, what a food.' You just have to accept their truth of their harmony with what they wanna do in their heart. As long as it's not hurting anyone.

The greatest power you have is your faith. F-A-I-T-H. And the word faith stands for Fantastic Adventures In Trusting Him. God will be there to fight all your battles, all you have to do is let him. Faith is very strong. Part of my life ministry is talking about God in terms of bringing back who I really am to the forefront of my identity.

Do you know what chaos stands for? C-H-A-O-S stands for Critical Hate And Overwhelming Stupidity.

F-A-I-L-I-N-G [is] Finding An Important Lesson, Inviting Needed Growth. So you don't actually fail, you find a better way to do whatever you're doing, and that's your ability, the truth of your core from past life experiences to where you are now in this life. It gives you the ability to be in your truth, without anything holding you down in a box that will never open.

Critics of art are like eunuchs in harem. They see how it's done when the men come to see the women, but they can't do it themselves.

Don't tell me what I'm not doing when I'm doing what you don't think I'm doing!

Relationship. R-E-L-A-T-I-O-N-S-H-I-P means this: Really exciting love affair turns into overwhelming nightmare. Sobriety hangs in peril.

Truth stands for Taking Real Understanding To Heart.

You know what 'FEAR' stands for? It stands for 'False Evidence Appearing Real.' It's the darkroom where Satan develops his negatives.

You are a gut maggot with no guts.

Theres a woman in Arkansas that's such a bad cook, that a swarm of flies got together and repaired her screen door.

Giving is better than receiving, 'cause that's the ability you give somebody to get stronger than they would be, than they could be, than they should be, before you loved them. When you give somebody the ability to feel your love and your healing, you're a doctor in the spirit, bringin' medicine from God to your heart and on to them.

Imagination is the hood ornament on your car of creativity.

I'm an angel in an earth suit.

Fun stands for finally understnding nothing. And that's what's fun about fun, you don't have to get it.

You Know the Most Dangerous Thing In the Water? A Shark Fart.

Be nice to everyone and tell jokes.

Your heart is the face of your spirit, it holds everything you have been, you are, and what you are going to be.

Art is only the search, it is not the final form. It's unlimited, it's forever.

A good way to lose weight is to put salt on your ass and go to a petting zoo. But stay away from goats because I've seen them fornicate with a mail box.

When you are on the set, you have different departments - you got camera, sound, props, hair, makeup, catering, executives. Imagine each one of those are spokes on the wagon wheel. All the spokes come into a hub: the hub is the director. The wood the spokes go into are distribution and promotion; the steel wheel around the hub is the film. None of these have anything in common with each other.

T-E-A-M stands for together everyone achieves more.

Everyone goes through their stuff when they are growing up. It's all relative. Everyone has the same situations on their menu. We just make the choices in terms of what situations we're going to eat.

Friends are just enemies in reverse.

Five parts of my brain contain alien power, whatever I do or say cannot be denied on the intergalactic highway of existence.

Faith gives me the ability to rise above anything, because what is true in the spiritual realm is forever true. It cannot be denied.

Drinking your own blood is the paradigm of recycling.

Music and acting are the same thing: you must understand that art is only the search, not the final form.