American Quotes

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.

Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.

If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

Whenever you want something that you're not going to get, suddenly the whiney 3-year-old comes out in you.

Sometimes I laugh with my parents, and sometimes I yell at them, and both are therapeutic.

Singing is an incredible expression and something that is important to me, but where I feel comfortable with how much I reveal about myself is acting. I enjoy the characters, the costumes, the wigs and just being a chameleon.

Maybe you're not perfect, but you're willing to actually look at yourself and take some kind of accountability. That's a change. It might not mean that you can turn everything around, but I think there's something incredibly hopeful about that.

It's very scary to allow the world to see you.

It's really hard to see yourself and to recognize that you are a human being like everybody else. You just think everybody's judging you.

In the past I've been very into the falling part, very into the swimming in the dark, deep emotional water. 'Rampart' I really went into it and it took me three times as long to get out of that depression as it did to just do the scenes. I had to learn to give it my all and then go home and laugh.

I'm so used to swimming with the piranhas. And they're really not that bad.

I'm learning with the older that I get that some feelings are just universal and that I'm not the only one who hates their hair or their life at times.

I wasn't interested in going to the school dances. I wasn't interested in going to the football games. What I wanted was to be in my room painting my walls and doing weird stuff. That's what I wanted and I got to do what I wanted, so that, to me, is my high school experience.

I was the type of person that would show a PowerPoint presentation about why I should do something versus crying and screaming over it.

I was home-schooled, was always very close with my mom and was very straight-laced and square. I was never the rebellious one, and I never threw hissy fits.

I was 3 when I told my mom that I knew what my dharma was and that I wanted to be an actor.

I think more things are becoming socially acceptable. I think that just by having more media, whether that's TV or Internet, we're able to see more things.

I think it starts to feel really redundant when you start to do something the same way over and over again. I don't think it's good to become so dependent on a certain writing process.

I know that I'm an actor and I guess I could kind of put on an act, but it takes so much more time to be someone you are not. I feel so much better just being comfortable with myself and hopefully girls will accept that.

I know how to have a conversation, but I've never done improv. I've never taken improv classes.