Kevin James Quotes

Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.

There's no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap.

Think first. Think twice. Think again. Respect others. Respect yourself. Respect dreams.

Pie...it fills the cracks of the heart. Go away, pain.

Nobody actually ever does this—escaping through a window.

I had my boy in Boston on Easter Sunday. That kills me, from a sports perspective. He's a Boston baby and I'm a New York guy.

Every time you make a decision, you mess with someone's life.

A song can take you to a special time in your life.

It's always cool to meet people who can do things that you have no capacity to do.

Once a year my back will go out and it'll be... it's like a sciatic thing and it's the smallest thing. Like I could be leaning over the sink to brush my teeth in a weird way and it happens.

I just want to put some positive stuff out there. If it works, great. If it doesn't, no problem.

When my dad was young he shot marbles. When I was young I played Marble Madness on my Nintendo Entertainment System.

The foolishness of chasing the moon ached my heart. I was stuck between the moon and the shore and surrounded by an empty sea.

If you are not learning, you are not living.

I've always been the guy who doesn't necessarily get it with women. A woman would have to say, 'I like you, I want to go out with you, you can ask me.' And still I would question it. Did she mean it?

I took a public speaking class in college and managed to make the class laugh a little bit.

Now I'm starting to jog. But every time I do jog I have 9-1 pressed into my phone, with the next '1' ready to be launched in case I drop.

I would always love to be an athlete, but it's got to be a tough day when you have to hang up those cleats.

I don't want to be known as this goody-two-shoes who can only do comedies where puppies are licking peanut butter off my face.

When Art becomes a Science it is no longer an Art.

You don't want to do anything that doesn't glorify God in every way.

You think school ends when it ends, but it doesn't.

I've always had something in my heart where I root for guys who struggle with women.

From there, I tried out for a community theatre play, joined an improv group... it all started opening up.

Back in '93 I saw my first UFC fight and just became enamored by it then.

You've got to go after your dreams. If you don't make an effort, nothing's ever going to change.

Sometimes I make my life a living hell by writing complex stories with complex characters. But I love it.

My favorite movie of all time is 'Rocky.'

For some reason and I don't know why, but I don't think that I'm funny in California. So I always want to do my movies east somewhere.

As American as an apple is and as American as baseball is, they don't go together. You can't be chewing an apple at a baseball game. You've got to let go of the diet that day.

Teachers have a chance to mold someone, inspire them. I hope all teachers realize that.

I write flawed characters. Ones that do not always make the best decisions and are driven by ambition or lust. They are not black or white, they are in the large space that exists between.

I could never be James Bond.

Every few months I'll pop into a comedy club or go to Vegas.

I think I invented the phrase 'Don't overdo it.'

Every time I do a movie where it gets physical, I say never again.

I really wasn't a class clown.

If I do a movie where I have to have a son and it's a chubby kid, my mother is always like, 'You were never like that.' She gets so upset about it.

Just me onstage with a mike having an intimate relationship with the audience. I don't get nervous for that. I just get excited.

I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously.

I never played music, but it's an important thing ... the studying, the inspiration.

I try to connect with the everyday, every guy.

I'm not a Hollywood guy.

Yeah, I write Urban Fantasy, but its more like Die Hard or Indiana Jones with Fairies, Mummies and a Vampire who uses guns more than his teeth.

If you're not writing, you're wronging.

Hope distracts you from pain - it's pain with red lipstick on to seduce you.

We speed through the streets past modern buildings and ancient architecture. Gazing through the taxi window Rome becomes a wet painting someone has wiped a hand across.

Writing is like painting a painting. Layer over layer over layer.

Right and wrong matters little when survival matters most.

The worst thing that can happen to us is that our wings melt and we fall into the sea.