L.A. Paul Quotes

It’s like someone who prays every night saying God’s a good listener. Just because you’re talking to us doesn’t mean we’re listening. With me and God, you never really know.

Mockery when done without prejudice or discretion, can be a form of respect. It's the closest we'll ever come to true equality.

For some players, luck itself is an art

There are three rules for running a business; fortunately, we don't know any of them.

Our marriage works because we each carry clubs of equal weight and size.

There are a lot of drivers who can carry a car. It doesn't happen very often very successfully. I think it takes a certain amount of sensible bravery. It's no good to be brave and just keep crashing.

While progress should never come to a halt, there are many places it should never come to at all.

We all die, just a question of when.

There are many ingredients that go into making a film. It baffles me, what works and what doesn't.

I certainly never expected to be a professional actor. I never expected to be in movies. I thought I would probably become a teacher.

Almost everything I learned about being an actor came from those early years at the Actor's Studio.

I have an extraordinary attention span. I manage to juggle two or three different ideas at the same time, and that's probably, if I have a gift, that's probably the best gift that's given me.

Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.

Admit it. I'm the best you ever seen, Fats. I'm the best there is. And even if you beat me, I'm still the best.

I really just can't watch myself. I see all the machinery at work and it just drives me nuts.

It happens to everybody, horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.

Hollywood is a changing world these days. This is one of the things that ought to be changed.

[Getting the truth in the New York Post has been as] difficult as finding a good hamburger in Albania.

Once I started taking drama classes, I asked myself why I had ever wasted so much time on a football team.

No sense in being a grifter if it's the same as being a citizen.

The only way we can give our children the best education in the world and prepare them for the next century is by funding the programs that serve them.

I am convinced that a person is entitled to as much privacy as he wants. It should be his privilege to keep certain areas of his life out of the newspapers.

I wasn't driven to acting by any inner compulsion. I was running away from the sporting goods business.

In the early days of films, the movie star in this country replaced royalty. They've been demoted since then but they're still treated as beings larger than life.

So I've worked really hard, because nothing ever came easily to me.

I believe there can be dignity in the acting profession. And I think there ought to be more dignity in the publicity an actor gets.

I don't like gossip stories. Facts are okay. But when gossips begin making items, that's something else again.

I was terrorized by the emotional requirements of being an actor. Acting is like letting your pants down; you're exposed.

You discover a lot of things on your feet and if you don't have any rehearsal, then anything that happens on the screen is by accident.

Well, the nice thing about animation, you don't even really have to account for yourself. All of the physical stuff that you work on as an actor, you just throw away.

I think Hollywood is in love with sequels. If it's successful once, just jazz it up and shoot it out there again. I think it's unfortunate.

I have been around at a time when important things needed to be done.

Better understanding of the natural world not only enhances all of us as human beings, but can also be harnessed for the better good, leading to improved health and quality of life.

I like a Blackpool breakfast, me - 20 ciggies and a pot of tea.

Comedy, your funny bone, is formed in childhood.

Every week I have a disaster in my kitchen. The fire alarm goes off repeatedly. But it doesn't stop me being adventurous.

I go in the butchers and there's not a lot of meat I can eat these days, with having all the animals.

When I was in the studio with Madonna, we would work 12-hour days. If you want to work with the best, then that's what you have to do.

I never thought electronic music would get as popular in America as it has. When I first came to Vegas in 2009 for my residency - we were they only people playing electronic music at that time.

Let their music skill speak for [itself]. If they are producing good tracks and are resonating with their fans, or even gaining new fans, then that's great.

When I collaborated with Nelly Furtado, the idea for the song structure came from myself, but the lyrics and the ideas behind the songs came from her.

I think anybody that is going to be taken seriously in [music] industry needs to produce their own original music.

I've worked with everyone from Ice Cube to Snoop Dogg ... right across to working with pop stars like Justin Timberlake. Why those artists came to me is because they wanted my sound.

I am here for 5 days to enjoy myself and rest. Israel is a beautiful country and the audience is full of passion and I enjoy everything there is here.

There is a definite Chinese pop sound developing, but I was shocked at how influenced it is by American music.

I'm about to start working with a singer I met on my last trip: she'll get international exposure, and I'll have a song out in that market sung in Cantonese.

I wish my friends at William Morris Endeavor all the best.

APA is another evolution in my career; they have unique vision and share my goals for the future. I look forward to expanding our horizons together.

All my life I knew I would have a big business. That’s what I wanted from the time I was in second grade; there was never a doubt in my mind.

I think everybody should have dyslexia and ADD.