Time Quotes

Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

If a bullfrog had wings it wouldn't bump his behind every time he hopped.

A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.

At that time, we were in charge. We didn't ask. We just did. We just did what was in our heart.

One movie I come back to time and again is 'The Hustler.' I don't think there's better dialogue in any film.

When you're starting out as an actor, you keep raising the stakes. First, you just want to be a character who comes on stage and gets a laugh or two and exits. Just five minutes on a stage, not even Broadway. But every time you say your little prayer at night, you place more demands.

I came out of school just at the time regional theater was first expanding. All of a sudden, lots of new companies needed actors.

Obviously I don't really go to church any more - no time.

My process is to be by myself when I record. It's quite an emotional performance to pull off when someone else is in the room. I prefer to go away and have my own time with it, bring it in later.

People are consuming more than ever, but I think they want a bit of honesty and depth. Adele, Gotye, Janelle Monae - they're giving you a catchy song, but it's also a challenging song at the same time.

You have to treat Hollywood like it's your boyfriend - he's there all the time.

Somewhere in that 20-year period, I would assume that there will be some basically new approach that will begin to cut into it, but it's got a long time.

We've just learned how to balance ourselves a little better so that we're happier way more of the time than not, and, you know, being happy is a radical and desirable act if you ask me.

Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time.

I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in.

I remember laughing an inordinate amount of time. Setting up scenes that involve ooze coming out basements, or pigs' heads flying through windows is really fun. How could you not laugh?

I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.

I don't know what I'm going to say half the time.

You can't go on winning all the time.

The pressure began to mount as I kept winning every time and people were anxious to see if I could be beaten.

However, there is no assurance that we can produce world class players so soon. Only time can tell.

In my thirties, I felt I had hold of one of the reins some of the time.

I groom, but it doesn't take me a long time to get to what people see.

I don't take time off.

I don't consider myself an A-list celebrity or a big dog, but every time I meet somebody, even rappers who've been in the game for years... they're like, 'Man, I'm trying to get on your level.'

Every day is new. It's just a new day. I look at six hours at a time.

I'm inspired every time I see a role I'd like to play, an actor turn in a well crafted performance, a story I'd like to tell, direct or produce.

I wrote my first play as extra credit for my fourth grade English class. 'Can Helen Stop Smoking' was a satire on the ill effects of cigarette smoking. My friend Vicki Haugabrook played as Helen and I directed the show. At the time, my brother Vince was leading the campaign to get our grandmother to

The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag, it was sadly the Stars and Stripes.

Moral persuasion over a period of time makes a difference, but we shouldn't be naive to think that just because we raise it in a meeting it will make all those problems go away. It won't and it doesn't.