John Quotes

I remember as a seventeen-year-old kid saying, "If attitude made me captain of this team, I'm going to have a good attitude all my life."

Turns out, Down syndrome is the most common genetic disorder, occurring once in every 800 births, and no one really knows why it happens. It just does.

I wanted to be Red Barber, Mel Allen or Howard Cosell. I loved their personalities and all of their sounds.

Young people can be annoying, let's face it. But they can also be really refreshing to be around and full of enthusiasm.

I did a movie with Leonardo DiCaprio, and his skill level was eons ahead of mine. It was really more like an abattoir - he just slaughtered my character over and over again.

When they're good, I like working with new actors.

I really enjoy my time off. If I'm going to go to work, it has to be something I really believe in, or else it's totally tedious.

There is a level of fame that is really unmanageable. But most of the people who experience that level of fame are compensated in other ways. Private villas and chauffeured boats.

I feel like a teenager myself, so I appreciate it when the kids think you're all right.

I like how pure the expression is in music. You can go straight to the heart of an audience rather than through their brain.

I kinda taught myself how to play guitar, and I still play to this day. It's become a pretty big part of my life.

I like being employed, you know. That's my favorite kind of acting.

Actors in general are pretty good bullshit artists; we're good at just chewing the fat, interacting with people. So we're good ambassadors for movies.

The less people know about me in reality, the more they can accept of me as a character.

It's a mystery why certain people find certain things funny.

My family are all storytellers, and I think I inherited a lot more of that gene than other people in my family. I guess I was fun to have around.

There's so much joy in doing comedy work, and that's one of the reasons I like to do it - because it's just a hilarious day at work.

I've worked with a lot of great directors and often times they solicit your ideas.

I like when people know exactly, have a good sense of themselves, and know exactly what's good for them, I admire that, but I don't have anywhere near that kind of perspective on my own.

The truth is, when you're at the track, it was an interesting thing about stock car racing as a sport, is you almost get more out of it watching it on TV.

An actor's life is like a series of - it's like the first day of school happening over and over again.

A lot of times, mainstream critics are much tougher on small, independent movies because they can be.

I'm much more character based. I try to just be really committed to what I'm doing.

I would say whisky or pills. Not both because that can have disastrous consequences.

I had [at school] my own little posse of people that all felt weird together so it wasn't so lonely.

If you get made fun for the way you look, then maybe wearing the same thing every day is the best way to protect yourself.

I'm alienated from this world because its weird and I don't want to be a part of it. I want to be part of the people that are more imaginative and crazy.

Whenever I work on something, I try and throw everything I have at it. Then if the director finds it useful they use it, and if not, they ignore it!

Why people pick me for the roles that they do is a bit of a mystery.

I'm aware of how lucky I am. Being able to make pretty good money, and get to do a lot of fun work, and at the same time I'm not besieged by photographers.

What right do I have to be in the woods, if the woods are not in me.

There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.

When you make music you are acting as a philosopher. You can either do that consciously or you can do it unconsciously, but you're doing it.

To see, one must go beyond the imiagination and for that one must stand absolutely still as though at the center of a leap.

Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're different processes.

There will always be critics eager to fashion opinions for the lazy and incapable.

All God's religions ... have not been able to put mankind back together again.

Refuse to be cynical. Refuse to think that things can never change.

There are babies a span long in hell.

Whoever the Lord has adopted ought to prepare themselves for hard, toilsome and unquiet living.

There is also an old proverb, that they who pay much attention to the body generally neglect the soul.

All our words ought to be filled with true sweetness and grace; and this will be so if we mingle the useful with the sweet.

The Creation is quite like a spacious and splendid house, provided and filled with the most exquisite, and at the same time, the most abundant furnishings. Everything in it tells of God.

Unless men establish their complete happiness in God, they will never give themselves truly and sincerely to him.

Indeed, a Christian ought to be disposed and prepared to keep in mind that he has to reckon with God every moment of his life.

All whom the Lord has chosen and received into the society of his saints ought to prepare themselves for a life that is hard, difficult, laborious and full of countless griefs.

When we hear any mention of our mystical union with Christ, we should remember that holiness is the channel to do it.

There is no erratic power or action or motion in creatures but they are governed by God's secret plan in such a way that nothing happens except what is knowingly and willingly decreed by Him.

To 'justify' means nothing else than to acquit of guilt him (her) who was accused as if his own innocence were confirmed.

There is no golden mean between these two extremes; either this early life must become low in our estimation, or it will have our inordinate love.