A. Kevin Quotes

I really live a simple life and don't need very much to feel good and happy. Don't get me wrong; I believe you should get what you earn. Sometimes you have to fight for it.

If you play jazz, then you play with your fingers. If you're playing rock, you use a pick. There's really no rhyme or reason to that other than that's just the way it has been.

James Brown is the reason I play guitar.

Everyone is into male grooming.

After a while I thought it didn't make any sense to use a pick. It's kind of like typing with one finger on each hand instead of using all your fingers.

My primary goal of hacking was the intellectual curiosity, the seduction of adventure.

As foreign as it would be for you to go running in regular shoes, I want it to be just as foreign for you not to work out in your Under Armour.

Best merchants are the ones who dictate cool, not those who try to predict it!

We need to stop making wide-body seats on airplanes, stop accommodating that, because it's not healthy.

I've been around where I knew other actors were going to steal the scene, and I don't compete with them.

So the ethic I was taught in school resulted in the path I chose in my life following school.

I characterize myself as a retired hacker. I'm applying what I know to improve security at companies.

I really worked with icons in the music business, which really had a strong effect on me. It wasn't just pick-up gigs.

Some sarcasm is best told simply.

For kids growing up now, there's no difference watching 'Avatar' on an iPad or watching YouTube on TV or watching 'Game of Thrones' on their computer. It's all content. It's just story.

I always thought that, in a way, you want your Superman to be a total unknown.

If you look at me in 'Ride Along,' even though I'm playing two different characters, my demeanor and my tone were not aggressive.

The audience, the place youre in, has everything to do with how your performance goes.

Most of the comedies I've done have been rather farcical and extravagant.

The process of doing a play is an organic one and the process of doing a film is totally un-organic.

But, I do think, on a very simplistic level, that we can project onto dogs because they are so innocent. They don't come with a lot of baggage.

I totally related to Cole Porter's magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room, which he was famous for doing, as was Gershwin. You couldn't drag them away from a piano.

Having other comedians complimenting my work is the biggest accolade that I can get.

I ain't gonna pay no dollar for a corn muffin that's half dough.

Life is a pressure cooker and whether you remain serene or become stressed-out depends on how you handle that pressure.

I believe the time we really look big in a child's eyes is when we go to them and apologize for our mistakes and we say, 'I was wrong. Will you forgive me?'

My baby is weird man... when he get mad, he gets in the oven.

President Obama should be championing American prominence, not apologizing for it.

You can't win a marathon without putting some bandaids on your nipples!

I mean we all played as kids. You play games, you take on different characters, you imitate; the fun and the love of play has never left me.

My business acumen is definitely growing.

The beauty of me is I'm always going to ask. I'll never not ask.

The less you know about me the easier it is to convince you that I'm the character on screen.

At the end of the day, I want to be part of the same conversation as Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, Dave Chappelle, Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor.

I'm not a big politics guy.

I don't write material. Funny things happen to me in the course of a day, and I just make notes.

My upbringing was solid because of the people I had around me.

All these people who say success changes people; well, no, it just magnifies what's there.

The very nature of limiting something from an infinite to moments in time creates distortion; analog recording methods create all kinds of distortion, they're just not digital distortion.

When I was a teenager, I learned that in order to play guitar like Johnny Ramone, it takes a huge amount of physical effort.

I had the time to take the original analog tapes and fix all the things I didn't like, so all I left was essentially the benefits of the analog with none of the disadvantages.

Ownership and control is important, because if you don't own what you do, all sorts of stupid stuff happens to it, and people spend good money on garbage.

Sometimes the path you're on is not as important as the direction you're heading.

You don't want to pigeonhole yourself.

I know what it feels like to carry a lot of weight in a society that's very image-conscious. It's a thin person's world, and we try to navigate within it without being made fun of.

I didn't get into film to win Academy Awards. I wanted to have a conversation with the audience.

There's a difference between who we love, who we settle for, and who we're meant for.

If you're lucky, you go from being a movie fan to a movie maker.

With what you don't know about me, I could just about fill the Grand Canyon.

Ministers must not be able to set rules governing solicitors on a whim, to suit their own requirements.