Lot Quotes

I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.

My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that.

I think that anybody who says 'This is the one way to go about being an actor' has probably not done a lot of professional work before.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

I'm kind of shy, and I think that I take that out by performing in front of a lot of people. That's how I get out my shyness.

And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don't think anyone in my family would really feel I'd done them an injustice by saying that. We didn't see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home.

I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.

I want to do as little as possible when I finish playing ball - just spend a lot more time with my family.

We as Republicans have taken the easy way out a lot of times.

I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity.

A lot of people are living their lives online in much more public ways with Facebook and Twitter.

The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality.

Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.

Right afterwards there was a whole, whole lot of press to do, so the week after, all day, every day, was press so I didn't really get a chance to celebrate.

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

They were singing, Gillette, the best a man can get, with a lot of guys hugging their fathers and sailing and riding bikes. I suddenly felt a long way from the best a man could get and I thought it would be nice to get from there to the best.

I had no friends. I worried a lot.

The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.

A lot of people pretty much only listen to the chorus.

There's a lot of days where you feel forgotten.

You know, episodic TV directing is a very long and arduous job. You have very short schedules, short short shooting days, and you have to get lot of pages done.

I'm not going to play lead guitar in a concert hall full of people, because I'm going to mess up a lot.

You can express a lot of things, a lot of action without speaking.

A lot of people would be embarrassed to admit that they were on 'Barney', but I embrace the fact. I just had such a wonderful time doing that show. I learned what a camera and prop is, and all that. I learned my manners too, so I guess that's a good thing!

I am star-struck but also I've known a lot of people for a long time. Like I'm super star-struck by Grant Lee Phillips and Jon Brion but I've known them for 17 years. So it's kinda like weird to be star-struck still, but I still am!

I experienced the judgement of a lot of people - and deservedly so.

I played a lot of tough clubs in my time. Once a guy in one of those clubs wanted to bet me $10 that I was dead. I was afraid to bet.

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can't make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.