M.C. Steve Quotes

You can't run away from your identity. Even if I went to another band, I'd still be Lips from the band Anvil. I've spent my entire life trying to be that, that's what I am. There's nowhere to run.

I moved to Chicago in 1980 to go to college

Almost any decent cook will make food by eye and taste. Virtually all of my family cooked that way.

I wouldn't mind being taller, because when I'm in the company of people who are absurdly tall, there's something about them that I can't help admiring.

New York has magnificent eating available, both in restaurants and in the materials available to home cooks in the many specialty markets.

What's the most outrageous thing I've ever done? Let's just say I don't think I've done it yet. The most outrageous thing is yet to come.

I learned to cook from my mom. Most of what I ate growing up was Italian cooking.

When I'm in a restaurant, I don't eat red meat. It doesn't taste like anything. But if a friend of mine is grilling stuff at his house, its almost always great.

I want to be in cahoots with bands who want to make the record of their dreams.

When people are absurdly tall, they command everyone's attention when they walk into a room. Nobody's ever dismissive of somebody for being too tall.

If I were a gambling man I would put all my money on there not being anything other than this universe.

I'm not a particularly good cook. Part of it is that it is the kind of cooking anybody could do if they bothered. It's improvisational. I cook with whatever I have laying around.

The only kind of restaurant I could imagine doing would be the extraordinarily snooty restaurant with three or four tables, and I would cook what I felt like cooking. And you could eat it or not.

I'm a Christian first. I'm a family guy second. As much as I like coaching, as much as I like basketball, it's third, fourth, or fifth down the line.

Fans will come if you have a good product.

Physical fitness is in. I recently had a physical fit myself.

We must never forget that both good and evil flow from the Bible. It is therefore not above criticism.

Dark energy is perhaps the biggest mystery in physics.

Football is the most successful cult, in terms of members and profits, in human history. Oh wait, there's also religion.

The truth is, every sport has been turned into a huge, nihilistic business.

There's something incredibly liberating about a holiday that encourages children to take candy from strangers

There's an invisible army of woman and men who really don't get why we give so much of ourselves to football. And they need to SPEAK UP.

Most forms of rage, after all, are only sloppy cloaks for grief.

It is in these moments of tender and ridiculous nostalgia that I know something inside me is still broken.

I love men, the restlessness of their corrupted souls, the way they hide their heavy, murderous hearts, their sudden delicacies and small shocking acts of tenderness.

A lot of what I'm having to do to get myself weaned from football is really limit what media I allow myself to consume. And it's a big drag. But it's also the only way to kick the habit.

Football is Lotto for kids from economically vulnerable neighborhoods.

I happen to love football so much and hate myself for loving it.

Football offers us a sanitized spectacle of combat that has a clear resolution, which we need more and more today given our incoherent overseas "wars."

Capitalism doesn't consider morality. It considers profitability.

I do think, as crazy as it sounds, that sports is an addiction and that it should be accorded some of the same supports as any other addiction.

None of us have any control over the deck or the hand we've been dealt. What we do have is total responibility as to how we play the hand.

Kristen Bell is rare as an actress, because she's the type of actor who jumps out of a plane without a parachute - from a totally fearless place, which is really refreshing and inspiring.

I actually had a movie green lit at Disney the same week 'Burlesque' was green lit - a movie for Disney called 'Mash-Up', about a high school marching band.

I want to make big movies that appeal to a lot of people. That's satisfying to me.

I want to tell beautiful stories. I know I want to tell stories that appeal to a large audience. I want to make movies that appeal to mass culture.

I always wanted to direct. I always saw myself as a director.

I love actors. I love working with actors. I really enjoy the process. I love having those in-depth discussions about the interior of their character, and actors really love to discuss that too.

In a huge way, everything that I've done in my life has helped inform my ability to communicate with actors and direct them.

I've been involved in burlesque for a really long time and I've always been really interested in burlesque, and I was writing musicals for different studios.

Originality irritates so obscurely that people may have to evolve to scratch it.

Most books are so well written they barely have any effect on the reader's senses

In books there's nothing of the fish covered in the coldness of the sea, or the feeling of a star touching space. Bad for business.

The best way of getting into something is to think of it as mischief.

How many times does a man have to shave before his chin gets the message?

One golfer a year is hit by lightning. This may be the only evidence we have of God's existence.

Gun stripping is the tea ceremony of America.

The law is where reality goes to die.

Hang up the phone on a vampire, the definition of carefree.

A society will manufacture an image of progress and locate it in the direction it wishes to take us.