Top 110 Ya Quotes

It was quite surreal. Me and my wife went on holiday to America and the security was really tight in the airport. And the security officer that was letting us go through to Los Angeles kept looking at my photo and then he said, ‘I know you don’t I?’ And I said ‘Do ya?’ and he said ‘You’re the guy with the bloopers’

I’ve always liked long hair. My dad’s always had long hair, but he always tells me, ‘I never had it in a ponytail.’ And I say to him, ‘You weren’t an England goalie either, were ya.’

‘Daughter of Smoke and Bone’ is one of my all-time top YA fantasy trilogies, so I was a little nervous about reading ‘Strange the Dreamer.’ Of course, I shouldn’t have been worried because Laini Taylor immediately grabbed me by the proverbial lapels and refused to let me go.

Teenagers are asking, ‘Who am I?’ and ‘How do I fit in?’ in every aspect of their lives, and the best YA romances appreciate that there is more to a teen’s life than finding love.

That’s something – you laugh about Eminem… It’s funny, man, because I didn’t like him when he first came out, ya know. It seemed like a big joke. But I think the guy’s for real, and I like his lyrics!

I must be honest here; I don’t think there’s such a thing as ‘unconventional’ when it comes to YA. YA readers are the most open-minded in the literary world. They’ll read anything.

I have this fear of coming across as a Barbie doll who got lucky. Style is a big part of who I am, but it’s not who I am. Ya know?

I like performers who I know are for real. You can tell, man, there’s an intensity about their stuff. You can tell right away they’re real people, ya know?

The YA category changes pretty fast. I’m so impressed by what these authors do.

You loan your friend money. You see them again, they don’t say nothin’ ’bout the money. ‘Hi, how ya doin’? How’s ya mama doing?’ Man, how’s my money doin’?

I really get inspired by songs. Like, if I hear a thug ‘Want to kill ya’ song, I’m ready to go out and get crazy. Or if you hear this really sexual, sensual slow song, I want to go have sex. I’m very animalistic when it comes to stuff like that. Very basic emotions.

I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I’ll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I’m gonna tell ya, that’s one helluva man, and God bless him.

One day, I got a call from Aditya Chopra and he said, ‘Ma’am, I am Aditya Chopra speaking, Yash Chopra ji’s son. I am making a film and I have a role for you.’ I was so simple at that time, I told him, ‘Ya fine, I am shooting at Noor Mahal bungalow, you come and meet me there.’

Initially, I wanted to write middle grade. YA scared me: there’s a lot of responsibility in being a YA author. It’s so important to give that age range the right books that reflect their world and show them themselves.

Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.

They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure.

This is a year and a few months after the transplant. Before I had it my doctors told me that it would be the biggest thing that I ever had to face and believe me, when they take your liver out of ya and put another one in it’s like replacing a football in your stomach.

But, I swear, they’re turning Donna into Annie Hall this season. More ties. More suits. But they’re also keeping her really motivated, ya know? Like, wanting to be a rock journalist. Wanting to be the first woman president.

My songs are my babies and I am protective about them, especially ‘Main Rahoon Ya Na Rahoon’ since I dedicated it to my grandfather.

I think that’s the great thing, ya’ know, that women can do anything that they want now.

I guess I thought I was Elvis Presley but I’ll tell ya something. All Elvis did was stand on a stage and play a guitar. He never fell off on that pavement at no 80 mph.

We all make judgments on people, but some are much more brutal than others. It’s easy to say, ‘Ya know, I’m not crazy about what she’s wearing,’ but you don’t have to be nasty about it, and you don’t have to be public about it.

I’ll tell ya, I’m a genuinely nice guy. I really am. A real nice guy. But I think I’m temperamental.

When I was a kid, we had this great advantage of there being no YA books. You read kid books and then went on to adult books. When I was 12 or 13, I read all of Steinbeck and Hemingway. I thought I should read everything a writer writes.

I hear it all the time. Walking through an airport or something like that, I still get a random, ‘Hey, I’m a Bills fan. Appreciate ya!’ Stuff like that.

I didn’t ‘decide’ to write YA, per se. But every time I thought of a story, it featured characters 15, 16, 17.

I’ll tell ya, I’m a pro-Second Amendment person, I’m a gun owner. I went to combat with a 9 millimeter strapped to my chest and a 20 millimeter cannon on the front of my jet. I’m no stranger to weapons.

I think, ya know, he’s called out a few WWE Superstars; I wouldn’t mind taking a crack at Conor McGregor, and he’s, like, 165 pounds, 185 pounds soaking wet. So, I would like to slam him on his head a few times.

If I wasn’t acting, I would sail professionally. Nowhere specific, but I’d sail to Bermuda, South Africa, ya know, get paid to race in Regattas, I think that’d be pretty rad.

Give a lift to a tomato, you expect her to be nice, don’t ya? After all, what kind of dames thumb rides, Sunday school teachers?

One of my biggest goals, especially with writing YA novels, is just to have people enjoy reading.

I focus a little more on pacing when I write books in the young adult category, and of course there’s the great American fear of anything sexual, so that’s somewhat backed off in YA.

This is the big one! You hear that, Elizabeth? I’m coming to join ya, honey!

Ever since I worked on ‘Buffy’, it’s always helped me to find a genre container for something, and I was like, ‘Oh, this is where the movie melodrama has gone to. It’s gone to YA.’

My mom always said that there would be haters. Not everyone can love ya.

If I can’t outplay you in football, I’m gonna fight ya.

Ya know, I always admired Ray Kroc, the man who invented McDonald’s. Ray had a vision of the most commonplace thing – a hamburger and fries to go – but to him it was just the greatest thing ever, and he was going to make it the greatest thing ever for everybody else, and he did.

For me, a good YA novel is the best kind of comfort food.

What’s interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for ‘Bio-Dome’ – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there’s a little movie trivia for ya.

I think in YA there’s sometimes a temptation to create heroines who are infinitely resilient and wise and confident because those are the behaviors we want to see teens embrace and maybe we want to see those things in ourselves.

There are all kinds of voices in YA, and they are realistic and unflinching.

I met Jim Jarmusch when I started recording my album ‘Ya Nass.’ He was writing the script for ‘Only Lovers Left Alive.’ Jarmusch was always a great inspiration to me, way before meeting him. Working with him was fantastic.

The YA author community is generally pretty friendly, and they care.

Honesty and truth in writing is so important, and I think that YA writing above all is honest, and I think that appeals to anyone of any age.

But it was great, we sit in the same dressing room where, like, Johnny Cash sat and Willie Nelson and all those guys. That was in itself something amazing – I was on the same space these guys stood on, ya know?

I installed anti-rust roofing into homes in Cairns. I packed boxes at Baby Barn. I was even a Manny! Mate, I know more about braiding hair and My Little Pony than most men, I can tell ya.

If you’ve ever had your heart broken, it’s like, once is enough – you can live a lifetime on that. Ya know? You can write a lot of records on one broken heart.

I realized how wonderful YA is and how I really wanted to write something that created that level of intrigue.

In the YA community, we are fighting for you and alongside you. When you make your voice heard, we’re gonna be even louder on your behalf. That’s definitely what I would like for teenagers to know. We’ve got you. We got you. I promise we do.

Becoming a YA author was actually a very lucky accident. When I wrote the ‘Queen of Everything,’ I thought it was a book for adults.

Fantasy novels give this illusion that the stakes are as high as they feel when you’re a teenager. But I think for teenagers they actually are that high. I think you really are dealing in a world of tremendous cruelty and intensity, and YA gives truth to that.

There are so many YA novels being made because there is so much young talent that can bring it to life. J-Law was one of the first females to do it with ‘The Hunger Games,’ and it’s been going on for a while now. With J-Law, it was like, ‘Hey, I’m Katniss,’ and then, ‘Hey, I just won an Oscar!’

YA does a fantastic job of being socially aware and, at the same time, entertaining.

There are bad people and there are bad corporations. Just as there are good people and good corporations. That might seem too black and white, but what can I tell ya?