We Can Quotes

I'm about being funny. If I can make a joke using profanity, I will. But for the most part, that can get awfully old and boring.

Any time I can be of help to the government in terms of giving advice -I've given a little advice, actually.

I have learned that I am also a person who has to be able to go fishing whenever I can and for as long as I want to go. It is a silly thing, but there it is.

All you can do as an artist is just strive to make the best record you can and ride the rollercoaster as it goes up and down.

And I don't give a damn about a greenback dollarSpend it fast as I can for a wailin' song and a good guitarThe only things that I understand, oh yeah.

This is the first generation in all of recorded history that can do something about the scourge of poverty. We have the means to do it. We can banish hunger from the face of the earth.

I have to have a meaning in my life. If I roam around without some meaning in my life, I'm in deep and serious trouble. I can't, I just can't exist.

I'm focusing on writing the best story I can write. Which means I'm doing everything I can to give the artist within me as much power as possible.

I got a very good life. I sold plenty of records, I get recognized plenty, I can always have somebody call up and get me a fine table at a restaurant. What do you really need, ultimately?

I think I can lead a pretty anonymous life, yeah.

Living frugally is one of the best things an author can do to prepare for their career.

My agent said to me five years ago, 'Hugh, I can see one day you... if I had to plan a goal for you, it's for you to have the kind of career that Sinatra had.'

But anyone who's done a musical knows; whether you're dancing or not, physically it's the most difficult thing you can do.

It's absolutely physically demanding to play the role of Wolverine. There's a lot of action, and I try to do as much of it as I can because it's better for the audience.

When people stop me in the street, and I can see they want to tell me more than they want the selfie, they want to tell me what it means to them, and that means a lot to me.

I can't stand the sound of fingernails on a chalkboard!

The fact that I have been successful merely means that I can write and illustrate in my own way.

I always make the joke that I go home, to one of my homes, to go and do laundry so I can go on the road again.

When I get to where I can enjoy just lying on the rug picking up lint balls, I will no longer be too ambitious.

I can't think in terms of journalism without thinking in terms of political ends. Unless there's been a reaction, there's been no journalism. It's cause and effect.

I feel trapped if I know I can't kill myself at anytime

I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.

I'm happiest when I can just be a director and watch.

It's not about mainstream global domination. I make clothes that I can't find. I made a few pieces and Lupe Fiasco bought a pair of trousers I'd made, and a few other artists picked some up.

Looking for meaning in the ordinary seems like the most urgent thing that we can do.

It's helpful to be prepared to celebrate the tiny things that you can do, where you meet the world and you negotiate an outcome that's quite tiny. But you can still make it feel remarkable.

No one wakes up and says, "Yay I get to mow the lawn!" But if I can find meaning there, then there's nowhere I can't find meaning.

If you think of play as being in things, there are things that are playable, then it becomes the work of figuring out what a thing can do.

In all honesty, I have a few irons in the fire in the TV world, but mostly, I'm working on having the most amazing life I can possibly have, and hopefully my career will come along for the ride.

As hard as you try and create narratives about sports, once the ball is in the air, there's not a damn thing you can do about it, it's just very real.

I consider the piano my 'main' instrument and have been playing for as long as I can remember. It seems to me that I might have come up with something resembling a song as early as 4 or 5 years old.

Something has happened, hasn't it? ... It's like being up close to something so large you don't even see it. Even now, I'm not sure I can. But I know it's there.

Everybody's excited about the new service economy, even though there is no actual service as near as I can tell.

To me, it's my job not to laugh, no matter what's said. By the time we shoot, I'm ready for all that's coming. I probably do most of my breaking in rehearsals, when I know that I can.

I can't really attribute my success onscreen to any formula and suggest you "do this or that" to make it as an actor.

Can't step from one movie set to the next. Only Samuel L. Jackson can do that. All us mere mortals can't do that!

I'm a good counter comedian. I can just work it off with looks, or have something crazy to say back. That works for me.

I wouldn't write about sh*t I don't know. You won't hear me write about politics in Africa and stuff, because I don't know enough about it. And I would never rap about something I can't back up.

Rapping is a vocal delivery, so you can do it without being part of hip-hop and not knowing what hip-hop is about.

I mean rappin' to me is easy, it's something you can do over a week.

As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you; to take the role and make it real.

My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.

I try to fit in workouts whenever I can.

I'd rather a young black actor read about success as opposed to how tough it was. I get these roles because I can act and that's it. Hopefully that's it.

Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.

You never know what you're going to share. I can play, I know what is written - the marks, the things the composer tells me to do - and I do it, but it will still sound different each day.

The most important thing is that it's much more fun to play in a band than to be in an audience in a club. That's the main thing I think, that you can do it.

I'm Language Gal. I can speak any language presented to me. And I look exactly like Halle Berry.

I think it'd be pretty cool to fly. Actually, I'd like to be Language Gal. My super power is that I can speak every language.

I know in this day and age, when you meet men, they often want to be boys. They dress like boys. And it's very confusing. I can't offer any solution except to make a movie about it.