Mine Quotes

I didn't plan to be the rude middle-class comedian. You write a certain type of joke that you find funny, and mine happen to be often rude. Yes, it's juvenile, but that's me.

I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?

I know that there are a lot of people out there with stories far worse than mine but you, too, can make it. To those of you who have, welcome to life. I celebrate you.

I hate this wretched willow soul of mine, patiently enduring, plaited or twisted by other hands.

Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano.

Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine.

When I think of the future, I think of my 15 year old son Connor and my 12 year old daughter Meghan. I worry about their future because your kids are as important to you as mine are to me. And I am unwilling to leave our children with so much debt.

Condoms aren't completely safe. A friend of mine was wearing one and got hit by a bus.

Reading about Queen Victoria has been a passion of mine since, as a child, I came across Laurence Housman's play 'Happy and Glorious,' with its Ernest Shepard illustrations.

I'm very honest - brutally honest. I always look at things from their point of view as well as mine. And I know when to walk away.

It's always been a dream of mine, of exploring the living world, of classifying all the species and finding out what makes up the biosphere.

Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine.

Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine.

My webmaster lives in Munich and is a very dear friend of mine. He is doing a great job on the site and it is constantly being updated and always will.

Thought is an errand boy, fear a mine of worries.

I have to follow my thoughts and mine for the gold. I have to dig it out.

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine.

Between takes I find it difficult to switch off and then try and re-emerge myself in the part, so I try to stay in that frame of mine all day. It can be exhausting and you lose a sense of self, but it is the method that works best for me.

That's always - that's been another dream of mine, to do a Broadway play. An award winning Broadway play.

You know, I've carried a weapon for 10 years, never shot anybody, never robbed anybody. It has saved my life twice, but I know they're not toys. I practice with firearms, I enjoy shooting, it's a hobby of mine and I have a healthy respect for them.

Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them.

If Barbara Walters was interviewing me, I'd figure her career was as dead as mine!

Other people - they practice and they practice... these fingers of mine, they got brains in 'em. You don't tell them what to do - they do it. God given talent.

Emmys are wonderful and I'm thrilled to death that I have mine. But they're representative of a specific achievement, where this sort of thing is representative of how you've grown in your own industry.

I've learned to relax more. Everybody feels pressure in what they do, maybe mine is just a little different because there doesn't seem to be enough hours in the day to accomplish what I want to.

Eve Ensler is a hero of mine. She's been working for the rights of women for a long time.

Everybody has a weakness. Mine is food.

Everybody's got a job to do, and I do mine as best I can.

I feel that I belong to the 19th century. Some composers' music is very topical. It almost says, 'This is about what I read in newspapers yesterday.' Not mine.