Al Barry Quotes

I just wanted to be a guy who could earn a living as an actor, and I did that for a long time.

Some brains are easy to hack into, and other brains are nearly impossible to hack into because they are so complex.

In health we're doing the digestive system. We each got assigned a topic for an oral report. I got the small intestine. I swear to god I hate my life.

I had always worked. I always had part-time jobs.

I relied mainly on other artists, who I think are smarter than critics, any critics or curators or anybody like that. They really know.

A beard on a man is only a way of hiding something, his face of course, but also the inner matters, like a hedge around a secret garden, or a cover over a bird cage.

You may be a lady but you are still the man!

And whatever my life had been up to that day, it was another life after that. And that is the gospel truth.

We don't shoot somebody soon, I'm gonna forget how

maybe somebody finally shot the dog.

A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.

In our lifetimes, we can only know a small portion of what exists. The world is endless and its treasures are inexhaustible.

There is no wrong answer. Even so, it is easy to receive wrong results, simply by asking the wrong question.

...light overcomes darkenss. A tiny match can illuminate the darkest room. As long as there is some light somewhere in the universe, [darkness] can be defeated.

It is true that I am a person with black pockets of evil and hatred in my heart. There are underground places inside of me

What is an idea made of? Of future, past and also meanwhile.

There's no requirement that jobs be meaningful. If there was, half the country would be unemployed.

Dear Anyone Who Finds This, Do not blame the drugs.

The most fundamental thing about a person is desire. It defines them. Tell me what a person wants, truly wants, and I'll tell you who they are, and how to persuade them.

The best revenge is living well, my dad told me once.

I’m a complicated man, with complicated taste buds.

A man who has been dead for a week in a hot trailer looks more like a man than you would first expect.

For I did not want him to see, or to question me, for here contains already secrets, and my secrets are my fortune and my sanity.

It's a good day when a goddess gets on the school-bus with 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.

I surrender to the Monster. What pleasure at last to give way to the strongest force in oneself.

A river of images and thoughts and feelings, dirtied and polluted so that no one could drink from it without gagging.

But I feel vanity is a part of art and the non-vain are really non-artistic.

World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.

The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision.

The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.

First of all, I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn't write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful.

When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I'm the same guy I've always been.

You say something stupid and the next morning you're in the headlines.

I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.

The minute you understand racism, you're responsible for being racist. It's like eating from the tree of knowledge.

I am the the type to have a personal experience with a celebrity, but I'm too classy to bring that up.

My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie.

The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.

Move too quickly and time will pass you by.

Most search committees use me.

We hadn't lost morale. But when you fight for four quarters, it's tough to always bounce back. The offense kept us in the game the last two weeks and to get out with a win feels really good.

We had some guys that abandoned their technique and abandoned some of the things that we just worked a month on.

The goal is not writing. The goal is being a human being writing.

A cartoonist's style is created by weaknesses and personal restrictions as much as strengths.

I'm not a good businessman and I don't promote myself particularly well. It's best I don't talk to anybody lest I alienate myself.

I'm an adequatist! I would be happy with something adequate. Perfection's out of the question.

If you can learn to convey what you express in the first rough sketch, you're really saying what you need to say in that.

I don't know what I was thinking when I was starting out. I was hoping I'd get paid to draw realistic pictures of hockey players. I still hold that hope alive.

I've been thinking of trying to de-caricaturize Donald Trump. I thought it would be fun to try and, since he's already a caricature, to make him normal looking.