Bo Ryan Quotes

The thing about being a photographer that's so cool is that you get to participate, but you also get to disappear. The camera is in front of your face all the time.

A camera gives you a purpose.

I think a lot about control nowadays, and I really want to let go and just be more in the moment.

The camera gives you some control.

When I moved to New York, I was still in the closet.

Everyone started to have a camera. That's when I started to travel outside of New York and go into nature.

I didn't have to be friends with people who were into pop music.

I put all of my time into art because I couldn't go back to Jersey and work at Starbucks.

A lot of people, even my parents, thought, "Art school, I don't know. We'll support you but the success rate for artists is really slim."

I knew my ticket out of the suburbs was art school, so I worked really hard to develop my portfolio and get a scholarship.

There was no luxury. I never got on an airplane until I was 18. We drove everywhere. My dad was like, "Waste not, want not."

I was pretty Irish Catholic Jersey, the middle of the line.

I couldn't wait to come to New York to reinvent myself.

I was growing up in the suburbs; I was one of eight kids. So I did have a community when I was younger, but all of my brothers and sisters were older.

The cool thing for me about moving to New York was that I got to create a new family.

I was voted most artistic in school.

I'm not going to hide behind anything.

I'm going to put every aspect of myself out into the world and try to convey it through photography.

Actually, I didn't study photography at first. I went to school for painting my first year, poetry my second year, graphic design my third and fourth year, and photography my fifth.

From 8 to 19, I was skateboarding every single day. That was my life. I worked at a skate shop. I watched skate videos.

Growing up, my room was covered in posters. I was like, "I want to make posters."

The cool part about New York is that you can do that. You can talk to all the people you admire.

A lot of artists need structure.

I love drawing, whether it's considered work or not, but I'm always drawing, and that's the core of the work. Everything comes from drawing.

Thankfully I'm a better actor than football player, or at least I hope so.

I'm a mean beanbag tosser.

I've been so blessed and so lucky to be a part of great shows like 'Chuck' and projects 'Daybreak.'

I'm definitely a boot-scootin' kind of guy.

I played football growing up in junior high and high school.

I come from a good family. I come from a faith-based family.

In the beginning of their end, people created their gods and their after-lives.

Do that which will make you happiest both now and in the future.

Mutual respect among everyone for one another and for one another's rights is an absolute prerequisite for peace.

There is never just one way to say something, and there is always another way to say something.

From the coaches on down, especially Jim Corsi whose been a great supporter, a true friend who really cares about his players and allowed me the chance to develop.

They that believe that ignorance is bliss, are ignorant and have never known bliss.

Man, if it weren't for Bill's Records and Tapes I would've been an accountant like my dad. I love my dad, but thank God for Bill's.

I've never really been one to stop and smell the roses.

I don't like things to feel forced. I just let it flow, if it's not flowing I just wait a bit in the studio or I go home.

Something that I can say, "I set out to do this, however many years ago, and now I did it." That's a new thing of mine too, is just speaking things into existence.

Hip-Hop itself, the culture, the way that it's going you could always see the effect that it has on basketball.

Manual Lynn? Find out what that is. He wrote every single word in the play, and then everyone just rapped their parts. Imagine if like, Eminem wrote a play, that's what it sounded like to me.

I'm not saying my teachers should have rapped my lessons or anything, but I feel if I had made more of a connection to them I would have gotten more out of school.

I feel like I'm at a point in my career where I'm looking for something else to sink my teeth into that's interesting to me, that I can do that I can feel like I'm turning another corner.

My big brother used to come home drunk and he'd clash with my dad and I just didn't want that.

I feel bad for these preachers man, they're on their jets doing all of that stuff because there's a lot of people living hell on earth.

Tone is everything in TV.

I had been accepted to film school, but my parents couldn't afford it, and yet they made too much money for me to get a scholarship.

I love crispy, cool sheets.

Well, I'm from Indiana. So to me when I was a little kid growing up, Cincinnati was the glamorous New York of it all.