John Quotes

You can tell James Duthie to shove that quiz. I have a few other words I can tell you about the quiz.

I focus on the dumbness of Hagelin... He played a hell of a game but that's all washed off from dumbness.

Winning all the time is not necessarily good.

What I'm not in the habit of doing, and I'm not going to do, is go around cap in hand pleading with players to play for their country.

Rooney has those things that you cannot teach players - the positions he takes up just behind the front men is a European trait.

I've been very fortunate and privileged as a player and manager - I've been successful and picked up a lot of knowledge and experience.

The tears of the young who go their way, last a day; But the grief is long of the old who stay.

Our days, our deeds, all we achieve or are, Lay folded in our infancy; the things Of good or ill we choose while yet unborn.

I believe L. Ron Hubbard resolved the human mind, and in resolving it he has also resolved human pain - that's what I really think has happened here.

My son was autistic, and he suffered from seizure disorder every 5 to 10 days. He would suffer a seizure that would last 45 seconds to a minute and sleep for 12 hours.

I've never had that concern of thinking of myself as stupid.

If I'm androgynous, I'd say I lean toward macho-androgynous.

You can't control the quality of projects that are coming to you, so if you get several in a row that are quality, you take them.

I like to fly at least once a day.

To Americans religious freedom is sacred.

Playing President Clinton (in Primary Colors) was risky and challenging. Some people thought Saturday Night Fever was risky, because no one had danced in movies for years.

I called my son Jett and I wanted to call my daughter Qantas, but my wife wouldn't let me.

It's the interviewee's job to know that his privacy is going to be invaded on some level. Otherwise, you are better off not doing the interview.

I learned early on that there are certain things you can control in the press, and things you cannot.

There's no rule that everyone has to change.

Even if the script's well written there's something about the life of an improvisation that resonates better than a written word, sometimes.

In my own life if I knew I was going to pass away I'd love to sit down and resolve every issue so I could go peacefully.

I don't recall the so-called devilish things I do. But there are considerable amounts.

I am very healthy. Career wise, even old men get to be in movies. So as long as I am healthy, I will continue to make movies.

I've always slightly regretted not taking up Chicago.

And now after all this time I finally figured out how to trap him... I will become him.

You gotta learn to laugh, it's the way to true love.

I will direct one day, but I have a feeling that it will be very limited.

I told my manager, 'If we can't do the things now that we want to do, what good is the power?... Let's test it and try to get the things done that we believe in.'

I think aerobatic flying is athletic. I don't do aerobatic flying, but I would put that in a category of a sport. I would put regular flying in the category of an art or machine-type thing.

I'm not big on sequels; I've done them, but I like doing little things that have their own timelessness to them, classic type things, and then you go onto something new.

I was always a character actor, basically, that sometimes looks like a leading man.

I played football in the ninth and 10th grade. I looked a lot like Joe Namath, so I think my looks got me there more than my abilities.

I love fun movies that also have something to say. They tend to stay with me, always.

I've always had an innate ability to dance, but I'm not as spiffy as those cinema legends like Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire.

A lot of actors never talk to other actors about how they're doing things, or why. I think it's important to share the way you're thinking.

Autism and seizures are the least known areas of illnesses.

Good writing is good writing, but that doesn't mean you can't orchestrate it or tweak it.

Having kids is something you can't always do. Kids are like lightning. You grab that lightning when you can get it.

I actually do like playing off-beat people. I think it's more fun.

I have a dance background. I have an athletic background.

I wouldn't trade my career with anybody's. I'd trade a few movies with Tom Hanks - 'Apollo 13 and 'Forrest Gump' - but other than that, I love my career.

I rode many bikes and motorcycles. My brother was in an accident when he was a kid and my mom forbade us to use motorcycles.

I had a bike the first time I moved to L.A. I had a Honda and I got around on that. But I'd never ridden Harleys.

I've ridden a bike since I was 18. It was the first transportation when I came to Hollywood because it was inexpensive and easy for me.

My road trips have been to Vegas, but you know, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.

When I was a very little boy I lived underneath the air pattern of LaGuardia airport in New York and I watched the planes fly to their destinations. I was in love with the design of these airplanes.

I’m willing to look my own nightmare on film, but if it endangers my life, then I’m willing to put my life before movies.

Tom Cruise has-we all have-the right to practice how we feel...don't judge someone until they have tossed your salad.

It's difficult for me to diet, so I don't. So, I make up for it in exercise. What I am willing to eat, I have to be willing to work off. It's that simple.