Am Quotes

I am a voyager - and the voyage cannot mean that I stay at home.

I guess the worst day I have had was when I had to stand up in rehab in front of my wife and daughter and say 'Hi, my name is Sam and I am an addict.'

My message of common-sense solutions is resonating with people. People around the country are starting to know who I am and starting to identify me with solutions, not rhetoric.

I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

There's an idea about who I am that's eternally projected onto me, and then I almost feel like I have to fulfill that role. Even when things come out of my mouth, I want to be sure I'm saying exactly what I mean.

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.

I enjoy those small chats you have when people come up and talk to you about your work. It only involves a few seconds of effort to be nice to those people, and I am very grateful for the kind words that people have taken the trouble to express to me in person.

I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am.

I mean, why am I considered an 'it girl?' Because I'm in a lot of movies right now or am on the covers of magazines? I just hope there is something solid behind that. Because here's the thing with 'it girl' status. It's great and amazing that anybody is saying that at all. But how long does that last?

I am fully committed to Hannah Montana. It's what gave me this amazing opportunity to reach out to so many people. I'm really excited about our new season. We are making great new episodes that I can't wait for our fans to see and I'm looking forward to the "Hannah Montana" movie that will be out in the spring.

I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes.

I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place.

I couldn't do my homework if my room wasn't clean. And it has carried on now that I am older, in a very freakish way.

I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am.

It was very natural for me to want to disappear into dark theater, I am really very shy. That is something that people never seem to fully grasp because, when you are an actor, you are meant to be an exhibitionist.

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I am finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden, so there is a lot of work.

To this day, I am the least materialistic person I know, because my father didn't raise me to just go out and buy this or that car. The only reason I wanted to make money as an actor was because I'm passionate about food!

Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.

A sex symbol? A symbol of sex? I don't think that I am a sex symbol, although it's very flattering. I'm 59, now, so I think I'm possibly past my sell-by date. I think I am.

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.

I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history.

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.

Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts.

I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.