Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Actors - Page 3

As you get older, you have to force yourself to have new dreams. For instance, I've been flying for 37 years, but now teaching others to fly is interesting for me. Sometimes you have to find new angles on life to keep you interested, like sharing successes and inspiring and helping others.

In Yiddish, we say, 'Nisht ahin un nisht aher.' It's neither here, it's neither there. I get more nerves than on anything I do when I'm doing multi-camera. But single-camera, I love very much.

And I think it's likely that there will be Data's out there one day. I hope so, if there are, that they all look exactly like me!

Life doesn't care about your vision. Stuff happens, and you've just got to deal with it. You roll with it; that's the beauty of it all.

Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.

To be bothered wherever you go - it's not a rational thing to want at all.

Girls love it when you have some weird nerdy thing in your room. It makes you look less threatening, even though I'm, like, very threatening. I'm the most threatening guy ever.

You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae.

Every cliche about kids is true; they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy.

I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.

Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.

When the people you love are gone, you're alone.

You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.

I'm a huge Woody Allen fan. Good movie, bad movie, it doesn't matter - I just like his movies.

I love my work, I love the people I work with, I do the best I can.

I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.

You paint something, and it's yours. It's your heart up on the wall.

There's no book to figure out how not to become a victim of police brutality.

Being a father has fulfilled me in parts of my life that sustain me. It gives me a comfort and patience. All actors have this hole inside that they're trying to fill by performing. I'm anxious to keep creating, but I'm not so desperate any more because I have the love and support of my kids and wife.

I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.

My favorite food from my homeland is Guinness. My second choice in Guinness. My third choice - would have to be Guinness.

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.

I don't wear cologne. I do occasionally, but anytime I take a shower, I just put on deodorant. That's basically what I smell like.

My face is oblong. But the best grooming is confidence.

When that glass broke and 'Stone Cold' was making an entrance, and that roof blew off that building, that sends you higher than life or anything that I know of. It's an adrenaline rush you can't explain.

Life is a roller coaster. There are ups; there are downs. There are hills; there are valleys, peaks, and so on.

To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in any shape or form.

The more variance I have in my days, the more exciting each thing is and the more I enjoy doing it.

My parents are very hard working people who did everything they could for their children. I have two brothers and they worked dog hard to give us an education and provide us with the most comfortable life possible. My dad provided for his family daily. So, yes, that is definitely in my DNA.

At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.

Everyone should have kids. They are the greatest joy in the world. But they are also terrorists. You'll realize this as soon as they're born, and they start using sleep deprivation to break you.

Always have an attitude of gratitude.

I have no real tattoos. I wear my bruises and tons of scars as my tattoos.

Being healthy is the crown that only the sick can see. A lot of times, we take it for granted.

Whatever life throws at me I'll take it and be grateful for it as well.

You borrow from the greats, and you make your own path without losing the core of who you are.

The fun for me in collaboration is, one, working with other people just makes you smarter; that's proven.

I learned long ago to focus on things you can control and don't even pay attention to things you don't.

I do believe in humanism, and I believe that we should treat each other with respect and care and look after each other. All human beings should have an equal chance to survive in society, and inequality is a big problem in society.

If you have an opportunity to use your voice you should use it.

Stereotypes do exist, but we have to walk through them.

I got put through a ladder by Jeff Hardy at WrestleMania 23, had bruises from the ladder rungs across my back, but I was back the next night. I did the hardcore match with Mick Foley at WrestleMania 22, went through a flaming table, and had thumbtacks in my back, but I was out there the next night. That mentality does get ingrained in you.

I went to a bunch of marches in New York and Washington, and you know I believe in the cause, but to march with those people takes a lot of compromise on my end.

My wife is my soul mate. I can't imagine being without her.

When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore; he belongs to the world.

Looking back, I'm really happy with the choices I've made in my career. I know for a fact I could be wealthier. Who knows, maybe I could be more successful, maybe not. I don't know. But just about every single thing I've ever done I've gone into with the right intentions, and that goes a long way.

People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.

Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends.

You buy a new iPhone, a few months later, another new iPhone comes out, and you get online to buy another one. You can't get enough. You are addicted to Apple.

I've always had a 'Work hard, play hard' attitude to life - I still do - but sometimes you get involved in something that needs a calm, methodical approach.

Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.

Because you are women, people will force their thinking on you, their boundaries on you. They will tell you how to dress, how to behave, who you can meet and where you can go. Don't live in the shadows of people's judgement. Make your own choices in the light of your own wisdom.

Brexit was a fantastic example of a nation shooting itself full in the face.

Once you have a felony conviction on your record, one of the most difficult things to do is to break the cycle of recidivism.

The void, the concept of nothingness, is terrifying to most people on the planet. And I get anxiety attacks myself. I know the fear of that void. You have to learn to die before you die. You give up, surrender to the void, to nothingness.

I'm going to tell you what my religion is. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Period. Terminato. Finito.

When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.

I don't know if I believe in love at first sight, but of course I believe in two people having chemistry right away. A girl should be really easy to talk to. When I lose track of time because we've been talking, I think that's really fun.

God bless America. God save the Queen. God defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia.

I have no tattoos at all - it was a huge undertaking for me in the '80s to let my parents know I was piercing my ear when I did 'L.A. Law.'