A. Kevin Quotes

My daughter doesn't even get my humor. She's like, 'Um, no. I don't get it, Dad. Mmm, no, not that one, Dad.'

I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.

Believe it or not, I make myself laugh. Sometimes when I have thoughts or say some things that are funny, it just makes me laugh, and I don't mind laughing at it before you guys do.

I try to be funny and not ignorant.

I am who I am. That's why my friends and peers respect and appreciate me. I don't change or cater my actions to fit my surroundings. I'm myself 24/7. People appreciate that.

When people get married young, you don't really understand the true definition of marriage.

We each have our lives... What matters is not how long those lives last, but what we do with them.

With something like cancer, there is a feeling that you can fight it in some way or control your response to it, but with dementia there is the fear of losing control of your mind and your life.

After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley.

Teachers have a chance to mold someone, inspire them. I hope all teachers realize that.

Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life.

As American as an apple is and as American as baseball is, they don't go together. You can't be chewing an apple at a baseball game. You've got to let go of the diet that day.

I play a lot of sports. I'm not real good at any of them. I'm above adequate.

I certainly identify with the role of mentor and, to some degree, maybe teacher. I do a lot of work with kids at the Old Vic.

Why do my movies make people feel so dead inside?

I was just a big fan of tattoos always growing up, and I wanted something cool that symbolizes what I've been through in my life, and everything on my chest and my back is like a collage.

I'm a basketball player. That's what I do and what I love but that's just not all who I am. I'm talented in a lot of different areas.

A carpet of despair which lay underneath the levels of fury.

I have no end of failings as a mother, but I have always followed the rules.

I understood that 'The Yellow Birds' would be a peculiar representation of the experience of being at war. I intended it to be so.

I'd really like to get the girl, shoot the gun, drive the car, have fun. I even have these kind of action dreams, where I'm the action guy.

I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else's story.

When I make a film I'm away from home for two to three months. So I want my kids to look at my films one day and say, I love his movies, I love his choices-because he loved them.

When you're climbing with someone who always sees the bright spot, even if there is no bright spot, that attitude is really helpful.

But when you are embodied in a location, in a physical plant, in a set of people, and in a common history, that constrains your evolution and your ability to evolve in certain directions.

I've had some movies that have been ridiculed, but that's OK with me. I don't feel that really defines me. Should I change who I am to be popular?

So I know how I watch movies which is on my laptop, man. And that's how I suspect a lot of people do it.

My mind is huge with little stories that I never told you.

Before forty, you think that exhaustion is something like a long-lasting hangover. But at forty you learn all about it. Even your passions exhaust you.

Expectations are dangerous when they are both too high and unformed.

...whenever a woman describes a man as sweet, the dalliance is doomed.

The best listener is the one who really cares about the other person.

Every life has a destiny... the trick is to discover it before then end of your life. Otherwise, you will have too many regrets.

The secret is that there is no secret.

We must think beyond ourselves

Freedom is not the same as lack of accountability.

I write flawed characters. Ones that do not always make the best decisions and are driven by ambition or lust. They are not black or white, they are in the large space that exists between.

An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other, to be able to deal with change in the environment.

An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous.

I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not.

I am a joyful conservative, unafraid to articulate big ideas with an optimistic smile.

There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the stars themselves begin to die.

Yer a good lad, Atticus, mowin’ me lawn and killin’ what Brits come around.

My mother was sarcastic and delightful and, trust me, quite remarkable.

Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And of our consuming diversions as we age is to recite, not only to others but to ourselves, our own story.

I trust online banking. You know why? Because if somebody hacks into my account and defrauds my credit card company, or my online bank account, guess who takes the loss? The bank, not me.

I thought at the time that I couldn't be horrified anymore, or wounded. I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already been so damaged that damage itself, in its totality, makes you safe.

The best way to be productive is to have a great team. So I spend more time than most CEOs on human resources. That's 20 percent of my week.

Focus your business on what you do best. Let everyone else worry about the rest.

I remember failing reading in school at a young age, and you just kinda get left behind and I felt helpless.