A. Kevin Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature.

Average is the enemy of excellence, and average commitment will prevent you from enduring to the end.

My role model was my grandfather. He instilled in me the feeling that no matter how successful you are you have a responsibility to help others.

All biblical exegetes and theologians have a theory of language, whether they acknowledge it or not.

Back in '93 I saw my first UFC fight and just became enamored by it then.

It never rains in Manchester, but it pours

From there, I tried out for a community theatre play, joined an improv group... it all started opening up.

It goes without saying that when you're the manager of a Premiership club, you go eight miles down the road and get beaten by a team two divisions below you, it's disappointing.

I've always had something in my heart where I root for guys who struggle with women.

You think school ends when it ends, but it doesn't.

You don't want to do anything that doesn't glorify God in every way.

In the past, people have looked at photos as a record of memory. The focus has been on the past tense. With Instagram, the focus is on the present tense.

What people tell you and how they act is very, very different sometimes.

You've got to go after your dreams. If you don't make an effort, nothing's ever going to change.

If you look at the British royal family and take away the scandals and the goofy stuff that's going on, people love to have this king to look up to - the royals are like celebrities.

I think now I'm up to something like 85 different titles that I've published.

Sure, President Bush can say that the U.S. government won't fund stem cell research, but believe me, Japan is applauding. Because they will just do it first and get all the patents.

The great secret behind classified projects is that most of them are so utterly boring and uninteresting that James Bond wouldn't even take a second look at them.

I'm not the type of person to go into depression after defeat.

I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments.

Jose Enrique's strength is that he's very strong

It's highly competitive to be here. People don't come to California to drop out anymore. It's a very striving place.

Of course you don't make any noise in space, because there's no air.

She didn't go all fangirl on anyone, but I suspect that's only because none of them bore the slightest resemblance to Nathan Fillion.

I'm a relatively ugly character who's done pretty damn well in film.

Talent is one thing, it is how you nurture and develop it, and never walk away from it. You can be rich, successful, you win awards, but it can always be better.

As a race car driver, driving is the easy part. The hard part is containing the emotions on the race track.

If I was English would I be respected a bit more? Yes, I think so, that's the truth.

The room inside is definitely the biggest plus of the car. Your head is not anywhere near the (roll) bars, like it's sitting against the bars in the other (current) cars.

When a system is in turbulence, the turbulence is not just out there in the environment, but is a part of the organization or organism that you are looking at.

In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.

Wisdom eludes me yet, but foolishness I captured long ago and to this day it is my constant companion, though many people consider me wise.

I've been on sets where things weren't relaxed because someone was creating tension for no reason.

Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.

I hoped you would consider it seriously instead of laughing at it.' 'Mr. Chamkanni said much the same thing in bed the first night home from the hospital

The real key is time management and being able to focus on what you need to, on using every available minute to accomplish something that needs to be done.

The best gift is giving from your heart

You try to squeeze a little more Charmin in the pads when you face him.

Sharing is Caring - Teaching our children to share is teaching them compassion and love.

One of the things that was kind of shocking for humans... was to come to terms with was the fact that, hey, we may not be the center of the universe.