A. Kevin Quotes

I've put out kind of a lot of albums and people seem to like it and the crowds keep getting bigger and bigger, so I think maybe I could make a life out of it.

I guess now I view music as my career. I want to do it forever, regardless of whether or not it's my means of living.

I didn't understand how to get a practice space or buy gear - I never thought I could do any of that - let alone get in front of people and play the songs.

I was never really seeking to play music. I knew I wanted to do it, but I think I wasn't seeking it out because it seemed so abstract to me.

I write all the time, and I write a lot of songs, but before I started putting out records those songs always just ended up on stuff that I did with The Babies.

It is a miracle that anything gets made. It's not for the faint of heart, at all. You could so easily get really depressed or really down about the whole thing, but you just don't.

I graduated from high school with the art award and I had made a ton of short films, but it was before DVDs with director commentary.

I'm a control freak, so that's why I became a director.

When life is kicking others in the teeth, Become a dentist.

The problem with popular thinking is that it doesn’t require you to think at all.

You can KNOW something yet FAIL to do it!

The divine harbinger of summer - warm rain.

Marriage is great. It'll calm you down - that and neutering.

I don't mind seeing two guys kissing, you know, as long as they're clean-shaven.

As an actor, you're always reading scripts looking for something good.

I tried to read the Bible, I did, but it always felt like a much less awesome Lord of the Rings.

It's tough getting older. You start falling apart, you know? My gums are starting to recede now. You can't tell tonight, though, 'cause I comb them forward.

It seems like all the sitcoms on now, the families are kind of dysfunctional.

I think I sent out some résumés for marketing jobs, and they all came back in the mail because I didn't have enough postage.

I have a severe addiction to 'Angry Birds.' I always tell myself, 'One more game...' But then there's always another and another and another.

The good thing about 'Weeds' now is, I get to play some dramatic parts in that as well.

'The Outer Limits' was one of those shows I grew up watching - that and The 'Twilight Zone.'

I think Little Nicky was a divergence from the films Adam Sandler was used to doing, and he was taking a risk. I admire him for doing that.

I was never really an impressionist. If there was somebody within my range, maybe I could work on it and do a little exaggeration of them - which I think is really the way to do an impression.

I grew up watching stand-ups and thought it was so entertaining and unique - you didn’t see that as a job description anywhere.

A special validates you as a stand-up by documenting your material.

As a comedian, you're kind of like a blues musician; you have to live a little bit.

A novel is too much of a commitment. I tend to peruse Twitter - I check to see if I had any mentions and read the latest messages.

They say that moving is one of the most stressful things in life. Death in the family is the second most stressful, and moving your dead spouse is the third.

I like to stuff myself at Thanksgiving, not turkeys.

I learned how to draw from being bored in school. I would doodle on the margins of my paper

When I began doing stand-up, it took me a long time to get an hour's worth of material together.

I'm probably more of a stand-up comedian than an actor.

It is a great rush to come up with a joke that gets a good response from the audience. It's gold!

It's kind of fun when you're playing characters that aren't quite on the up and up and people still like you.

I really enjoyed working on the 2009 film, 'Aliens in the Attic,' because it was shot in New Zealand and I got to visit there for the first time.

Saturday Night Live was a show that I never thought I would be on, because I didn't do sketch comedy and I didn't do impressions. I was a stand-up.

I've noticed a surge when I go out somewhere, or if I'm doing stand-up.

I really like to read when I'm eating - 'The New York Times' or the 'Wall Street Journal,' paper version.

When a show has been on for so long, you lose fans, you gain fans. I remember this from 'Saturday Night Live.'

I don't smoke pot or cigarettes, so inhaling smoke as a non-smoker - it doesn't matter what it is, it's going to make you lightheaded.

Building fast-growing, globally competitive companies is tough.

The skies were blue when I was coming up. I want my kids to have the same opportunity, if not better, than I had.

Justin Trudeau is going to elect Kevin O'Leary. All he has to do is keep doing what he is doing.

Let's not forget, there are three languages in Canada - English, French, and there's the language of jobs.

I keep anywhere between 5-10 percent of my net worth in venture ideas.

My worst fashion faux pas: probably orange shoes with white pants. I thought I looked spectacular.

I look at Twitter as brand building.

When you bring an idea that has no merit to me, and you ask me to comment on it, I'm going to tell you it has no merit.

I think every entrepreneur in Canada owes the next generation a road map of how to do it again.