On Time Quotes

I just don't feel like part of the fraternity of actors. I do geek out. All the time.

I got all of my out-of-work time done in the years when I first came to L.A.!

I was lucky enough to be a "type." Sort of a bad-guy type at the time, because I was tall and I had dark eyes. A lot of times, you don't have to be good; you just have to be the right type.

Without being good enough, I started figuring out how to make my way through the minefield of a script, which is what it was to me at the time, and the rest is semi-history.

Unless you're doing a feature piece, which is going to be longer, and you have more time to get into stuff.

I usually hang out on the set. I get to know everybody. I have a nice time with the other actors.

When I was working on my career, I was very aware of what I had done, what I wanted to do next. I'm having a good time just reading things that might be interesting to do.

I've learned in most areas of my life, to bounce heated choices off other people. Co-workers, my agent, my wife, a sponsor, etc. A majority of the time, that keeps me on the right side of things.

A lot of getting a song done is booking the studio time. I'm the kind of person who will set time aside to do something and then do everything but that thing.

Take it from somebody who has been around for a million years: When you get right down to it, food is practically the whole story every time.

There were lots of things to stop and see-and then it was time to go, always time to go.

Honest to God, Bill, the way things are going, all I can think of is that I'm a character in a book by somebody who wants to write about somebody who suffers all the time.

Contemplating a purported work of art is a social activity. Either you have a rewarding time, or you don't. You don't have to say why afterward. You don't have to say anything.

There is no way a beautiful woman can live up to what she looks like for any appreciable length of time.

A story has to be a good date, because the reader can stop at any time. Remember, readers are selfish and have no compulsion to be decent about anything.

I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time, they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody. They may be teaching that still.

Poverty is a relatively mild disease for even a very flimsy American soul, but uselessness will kill strong and weak souls alike, and kill every time.

Terry Kitchen asked me one time why, since I had so few gifts as a husband and father, I had gotten married. And I heard myself say: "That's the way the post-war movie goes.

[I write] intuitively, reflexively, as if skiing down a steep mountain slope with no time to think.

My ancestors came over from Germany about the time of the Civil War and one of them lost a leg and went back to Germany.

It seems to me divorce is so common now. It ought to be more institutionalized. It's like a head-on collision every time. It's supposed to be a surprise but it's commonplace.

I myself grew up when radio was very important. I'd come home from school and turn on the radio. There were funny comedians and wonderful music, and there were plays. I used to pass time with radio.

I had stopped painting around 2000, which I guess was when the music thing started getting pretty busy. I just didn't have enough time to pursue it properly.

One of the blessings and curses of my life is that I carry so many projects at the same time.

The time that I have on this earth should just be filled with good times.

Sometimes I work upstairs projecting the movies, and the rest of the time I'm just selling tickets or popcorn.

After 14 years, it better be a real marriage, you know? We do have a great time together. We are really lucky.

One tends to overlook the fact that all during the 30's and actually during the late 40's I was a highly successful writer and a great many properties accumulated during that period of time.

Y'know, we're all wasting our time writing this hack science fiction! You wanta make real money, you gotta start a religion!

It's a time for us to take counsel from God rather than give him counsel about all the things we think he ought to be doing.

The statement is that I’m not one icon. I’m every icon. I’m an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time.

I'm a single girl. I like to have a good time. I just sleep with the guys in the band all the time because it's easier.

Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.

I live between two things-I live between art and pop all the time.

My father [Joe Germanotta] opened a restaurant. It's so amazing... it's so freaking delicious, but I'm telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.

Anyone who ever spoke to me would know I would never say the words 'get hitched' nxt time do ur research.

I always make music that's reflective of the mindset I'm in at the time, how I'm feeling.

I always make music that's reflective of the mindset I'm in at the time, and how I'm feeling.

I love James Baldwin essays, but also his novels. I recently read "Another Country." I couldn't believe how ahead of his time he was.

He actually listened, rather than pretending to listen while waiting a suitable interval before it was his time to talk again.

The sooner you learn to finish things, and as a matter of course finish your creative endeavors, the better. It took me a long time to learn that.

Once upon a time, a girl lived in a sandcastle, making monsters to send through a hole in the sky.

We are the beginning ... We always have been. This time, let it be more than a beginning.

Once upon a time, a little girl was raised by monsters. But angels burned the doorways to their world, and she was all alone.

We only get to be one person; we don't even get to choose that person. By the time we get ahold of ourselves, we are pieces already in play.

Once upon a time, there were two moons, who were sisters. Nitid was the goddess of tears and life, and the sky was hers. No one worshipped Ellai but secret lovers.

Once upon a time, an angel lay dying in the mist. And a devil knelt over him and smiled.

I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.

I like fighting at the higher weight. That extra seven pounds helps because of energy, strength and I can focus more throughout the training camp, without having to put extra time into making weight.

I didn't just jump back on the bike and win. There were a lot of ups and downs, good results and bad results, but this time I didn't let the lows get to me.