St. Justin Quotes

Writers who pretend that everything they're doing is completely new are full of it.

I came to Houston for a job, the reason most people move halfway across the country with a first grader and a five-week-old. I came here to teach at Rice.

I'm still an English professor at Rice University here in Houston. They've been very generous in letting me on a very long leash to just work on 'The Passage' and its sequels.

I'm a procrastinator. That's a pretty bad habit.

I love to sing, but I'm just terrible. I play guitar, and I play enough where I can play most country stuff, and I'll sing when it's just me.

As for restaurants, I'd say I'm always down for Wendy's. A little fry dipping in a Frosty - that's a good deal.

If I could be a country music star, I'd do it in a heartbeat. I'd hit the road and just jam out.

When you have a very hot single there is no reason why it can't drive album sales. People fall off and come back on. I'm looking forward to coming back on with a vengeance.

Jazz is not the format where I want to stay, but it really is a starting point for me.

I'm not unknown, yet I'm not super famous where I can't go anywhere.

I am very conscious of what I say and do when I go out because the media is quick to make that a story.

That woman was sexy. . . . Out of your league? Son, let women figure out why they won't screw you. Don't do it for them.

Oh spare me, being stuck in your bedroom is not like prison. You don't have to worry about being gang-raped in your bedroom.

You say you’re sick, huh? Well, it looks like you’ve come down with a case of bullshit.

I almost feel like I'm unoffendable now. I can roll with whatever.

Sometimes its nice when people you love need you.

There is no definitive guidebook on how to pick the right partner, and even if there were, I'm way too dumb to write it.

The thing with Bill Shatner is he brings something unique to everything he does. He's not the obvious choice for anything, but he always brings something special to it.

Although Kurt Vonnegut may not be considered a humor writer, 'Breakfast of Champions' is one of the funniest books I've ever read.

I just wanted to compile these stories about growing up with my father and I wanted people to be able to enjoy them individually, but also the entire book as a whole.

Sometimes we'll only see each other in passing, like ships passing in the night.

There are people that have watched everything I've done, which is so sweet. Sometimes I'm grateful for that; sometimes I feel like I have to apologize.

When people are fanatical about something, it's contagious.

Obviously we can't do what we do if no one is paying attention.

I have a 12-year-old daughter, and all the time people will say, 'Oh, she's young!" and you'd be so surprised what you can learn from that 12-year-old if you just opened up your mind.

Everybody has an inside scoop, so just be a nice guy. Be a nice person.

Anytime you go through a divorce, you're completely lost, whether you want to admit it or not, or whether you know it or not, you're completely lost.

When you find any great project - if it's onstage or it's a movie or a television show or whatever it might be, if it's wonderful, then that sort of transcends what the medium is.

I think people have certain preconceived notions of certain people that they've never met. And so, that's sort of what I try to work from.

I channel a lot of my own personal relationships anytime I prep for something.

I've certainly been to Hollywood parties, and I have friends that are ridiculous - wonderful people - but they're high rollers with tons of money.

I've struggled with money when I could have had a little more if I'd just taken the damn job.

I worked all through my 20's, all through my 30's, so I've been lucky to be working.

We need people interested, otherwise literally the lights turn off.

People that are interested in me, I like to be interested in them.

I wish I had been more self-aware earlier, but I think that just comes with age.

I love theater, I would love to do a play, but it's hard to beat.

I took a lot from friends, but also me.

Some relationships are stronger than others at certain times.

There are certain things that are obviously problems and should be topics of conversation that aren't.

Your relationship with your sister-in-law is hingeing on your brother's - or your sister-in-law's - ability to keep that relationship together.

I'm truly obsessed by clothes. I just buy clothes all the time.

Did you ever look in the mirror And see a stranger standing there? Did you ever drive for miles and miles And wonder how on earth you got yourself there?

Fear will keep you from accomplishing your dreams.

I've always been a huge fan of martial arts and comedy, so Rush Hour was the perfect combination for me.

I think Jon Foo and my chemistry is incredible! Foo is a genuine introvert and I'm a genuine extrovert. We're the perfect ying and yang, on and off camera.

Some of my funniest thoughts come to me while I'm taking a shower.

I'm really quiet at home. I don't speak that much. However, when I'm in public, I make sure to speak to everyone.

I turned down a contract with a major network in New York my senior year of college in order to move to Los Angeles and pursue my acting career. But so far it's working out.

One of the reasons I started acting was to re-make The Karate Kid, but Jaden Smith beat me to it.