Stuff Quotes

Live your life, sing your song. Not full of expectations. Not for the ovations. But for the joy of it.

To me it's a mystery that you can show the horrific things in the movies, but not some sexual stuff which everyone does.

I over-think stuff a lot.

I kind of was raised at The Comedy Store by comedians. When you see my dad on stage before me and then you see me, you'll see where I got a lot of my stuff.

I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple and on the surface.

My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.

You can do great things with low-tech stuff.

The kids out there want something they can relate to, something that's real; most of that whiny stuff isn't real. The cheesy pop songs just bore me to death.

I don't think of my life as a career. I do stuff. I respond to stuff. That's not a career - it's a life!

When you see people say crazy things on our show, they mean this stuff,and that's easy to forget: They're not joking.

I can only write about personal stuff, about my point of view.

Ya think that the whiskey tastes good? Try a big cup of sobriety - now that is the good stuff!

Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of our country stuff on our predominantly black audience and some of our black audience began whispering "who is that black hillbilly at the Cosmo?"

There's stuff I don't like to rehearse, really emotional things, I don't like to rehearse. You just beat it to death.

I don't see myself as a stand-up comic doing cynical, mean-spirited or disrespectful stuff. I'm very aware that I don't like to disrespect people too much.

It is necessary, in this world, to be made of harder stuff than one's environment.

But what's so great about being a perfectionist?... You do all this work, and then the stuff you've made just pisses you off.

I like Jailhouse Rock and Love Me Tender. The black-and-white films. With music, I tend more toward the '70s stuff because I was at the shows for those, so they bring back memories.

Like now what Urban Outfitters has become is very much how I always dressed in high school by going to garage sales and getting stuff for 50 cents. Cost a little more now, to look like crap.

If you gather a lot of stuff, then you write it, write in scenes with dialogue. Somewhere in the middle, rising from all this research like strong metal towers, is your opinions.

I actually have a young readers' series that I wanna do, kind of in the same lane as a Harry Potter or Narnia or Twilight. I want to write stuff like that.

A lot of times I make people better by getting stupid, distracting, bureaucratic stuff off their desk. That's an incredibly easy way to make a senior person more productive.

The cross of Christ exists because mankind-loved by God, created by God, set in motion by God-betrayed God and prefers his stuff to him.

But I think if you treat people well, they embrace you. The other stuff, it just doesn't matter.

I want to keep working, I want to keep doing my humanitarian stuff around the world, shining light on different places that have problems. Keep making movies, make people laugh.

That's the whole meaning of life, isn't it? Trying to find a place for your stuff.

If I programmed my own TV network, it would air good news! Just positive stories. Heroic stories. Cute puppy dogs doin' stuff.

Obviously, matches and all that stuff takes its toll on your body and so forth. But as you get sort of a bit older, a bit wiser, and a bit more experienced, you know also how to handle it.

The critics try to intellectualize my material. There's no satire involved. Satire is a concept that can only be understood by adults. My stuff is straight, for people of all ages.

If you just want to make stuff and put it out there so people can see that, great. Do that. Nothing is ever going to stop you.

I think brilliant stuff comes out of working with limitations. One liners are very limiting, but that's what drew me to them in the first place.

The geniuses who conduct the motion-picture business killed glamour when they decided that what the public wanted was not dream stuff, from which movies used to be made, but realism.

Especially in the world of comedy, it feels like you have to be proactive, in terms of pitching and trying to sell and being a part of the creation of the stuff that you do.

There was so much good and different music back then and you'd just keep moving through it and discovering more new stuff. I went through my Black Sabbath phase before I even started playing guitar.

There will always be crazy things that happen in our lives, but love is the central connector. If we commit to love and partnership, the other stuff doesnt matter.

We are made of star-stuff. Our bodies are made of star-stuff. There are pieces of star within us all.

Don't get seduced by your own stuff; work hard to keep a blank slate state of mind each time you watch your film.

I was fifteen in college at Tulane. I lied about my age in college so that I could be normal socially. So that girls would go out with me and stuff like that. I just said I was normal age.

You've gotta stop making stuff up.

Just be prepared for a long and often uncertain journey. The good stuff doesn't come easy.

I had gone to jail, but I wasn't gettin' locked up for drugs then. I was gettin' locked up for guns. My moms kept finding guns and stuff in my room and she was gettin' more scared.

I read true crime books, and I read when people do case studies of stuff. I'm into books like that. Case studies or forensics or murder - all that good stuff.

Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff.

Do stupid stuff and even stupider suff will happen to you.

The world will try to tell you that you need stuff to be somebody. Don't listen

Those places I don't understand, just doing bad food. It takes some doing. Making good pasta is so much easier than making bad stuff. It actually takes quite an effort to make poor linguine pomodora.

I tend to fly old airplanes and old sort of things that are nearly about as old as me. Biplanes and stuff like that.

I don't want to work on stuff I don't like.

Making films is like making stuff together as kids.