Top 111 Austin Quotes

For me, I coin Austin as being kind of a baby brother to L.A. Because it’s pretty much the same thing; L.A. is just amplified to the nth degree.

During my Austin years, I was drawing a regular strip for the University Of Texas newspaper, going to school, delivering blood, and trying to change my approach and ‘style’ as much as I could, since I knew that I’d calcify as I got older.

You come to Oklahoma to beat Texas. I was born and raised in Austin. They didn’t recruit me. I grew up 15 miles from their campus. I can’t stand them.

I went to film school at UT Austin. I learned a lot, and that school’s good for puking up all your bad movies early and quick. But ultimately, no one can teach you to be an artist.

Any ’90s baby, The Rock or Stone Cold Steve Austin had to be your favorite wrestler.

I’ll tell you right now, man, if WWE was to call me and say, ‘Hey, Book, we want you to do a match with ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin,’ I’d do it!

Instead of watching the World Series, I was watching Steve Austin versus Dustin Rhodes in a 15-minute Broadway for the WCW TV title at Halloween Havoc 1991.

Austin Pettis can make plays.

I lived in Brooklyn from 2007 to 2012 but for the last few years have resided in Austin, Texas, where my world – especially the world of downtown – is predominantly white.

My run cannot be touched. If you want to talk about longevity, you can speak the name Hogan. If you want to talk about white-hot, selling tickets, and taking the business to a height it’s never been – and, with a hell of a supporting cast, I might add – you’re talking about Stone Cold Steve Austin.

You’re supposed to not like the ‘Austin Powers’ movies because people ruin the catchphrases. ‘Austin Powers’ is so funny.

I used to imitate Stone Cold Steve Austin. Identical. I literally made my own waistcoat like Stone Cold, put a little ‘3:16’ I cut out of newspapers for it.

Austin’s a great wrestling town. There’s a lot of WWE fans when we get there, and they’re always really loud.

When I started playing music it was around Austin and the Hill Country area in Texas and there were always campfires and picking circles and I loved being a part of that.

The Corona Extra brand was launched in Austin, Texas. From Austin, where it was exclusively for three or four months, it became more widely available in that state and in others, primarily in the southwest and western United States.

The main thing in measuring integrity is someone’s motive and intent, not how many records they sell. Our intent in Ministry was never to be big. We just wanted to make enough money to live and to buy a studio, which we have done in Austin.

I played with a band in Austin when I was doing ‘Friday Night Lights.’ It was a blast.

Her parents, Austin Taylor and Kathleen Taylor, were big deals in Vancouver – they were civic leaders, and he raced horses in the Kentucky Derby – and my mother grew up a debutante. And when she and my dad were married, there were about a thousand guests at that reception.

I used to bomb around London in my little Austin 10 throughout the raids to appear on stage and if there was a raid before the show was over I would be there, crouching on a floor wherever I could find a big thick wall.

Austin Aries is a guy that has been the longest-reigning ‘X Division’ champion, has proven himself all over the world before he even got to TNA, and is well-respected in the industry, so I think he’s a guy to look out for and I look forward to working with.

I know people look at the Disney Channel as… a specific thing. But all the actors from ‘Austin and Ally’ – honestly, they’re really good.

When I went out and did what I did in the world of professional wrestling as Stone Cold Steve Austin, pretty much anything and everything thing I said was ad lib, on the spot, just let it fly and go for it.

It’s tough when you’re an artist because you get to go around the world and make a lot of friends, but guess what? One day, all these people that you love are going to die, from DJ Mehdi to DJ Dusk to J Dilla to Austin Peralta to DJ Rashad.

There is certainly a strong game development community in Texas, centered around Austin, with a significant additional contingency coming over from Dallas.

Here in Austin, Texas, we live in sort of rolling hill country. And I get on my mountain bike, just cruise the hills, get on the trails.

I remember, when I saw the first ‘Austin Powers’ movie, I was blown away by how fun and original it was.

In the summer of 1954, after several years in Austin, Minnesota, our family moved across the state to the small, rural town of Worthington, where my dad became regional manager for a life insurance company. To me, at age 7, Worthington seemed a perfectly splendid spot on the earth.

That boy-next-door, love interest crush has been my niche since ‘Austin & Ally.’

Austin Powers’ is a huge success. If we get half of those numbers we will be elated. I think this film is more an ‘Austin Powers’ meets ‘Shaft.’ But, ‘Undercover Brother’ is totally unique.

I have no doubt that President George W. Bush – a man, in my experience, of extremely kind and generous instincts, and back in Austin even a rescuer of stray animals – would be appalled by the conditions of a typical American factory farm or packing plant.

23andMe set out to try and change healthcare – this is not an easy business. This is not a coffee shop in Austin.

I try to make as much time as I can for R5, because I love it so much. Ultimately, that’s what’s going to be around forever in my life. Because with ‘Austin & Ally,’ our season is going to end, and then that will be it. But R5 will always be there.

I’m Austin Seferian-Jenkins. He’s Tony Gonzalez. He’s the best tight end to ever play the game. So that’s a real strong comparison. I’m just going to do my job and leave the comparisons up to the coaches and the media.

I didn’t care for Steve Austin because of his mouth. He was a very, very vulgar individual and anybody who is like that I can never be a fan of. So, any of his positives were overshadowed by the negatives.

In Austin, you work in anything that will pay and a lot of things that don’t. The documentary filmmaker may also be a gaffer on a feature and producer for a commercial series and web host. Everyone just does a little bit of everything, and you have to because it’s a secondary market.

Social life was different for me in college. I didn’t go to as many parties as my friends did. I didn’t join a sorority because I knew I couldn’t make a long-term commitment. I was constantly traveling back and forth from Silicon Valley to Austin for internships. It was hard, but it was worth it for where I wanted to go.

People don’t live in Austin to work, they work to live there.

We saw a need to develop a community for artists to get their music out to the masses. With MySpace, when they went out on tour, they could actually tour nationally. The band might have 20,000 friends on their list and send out a bulletin saying, ‘I’m going to be in Austin on Tuesday night. Come see our show.’

I was brought up in a car family, my dad loved cars and I was taught the art of making an Austin 7 operate.

I like the fact that Austin’s the first place I’ve ever lived where there’s a real sense of community. People care about their neighbors.

Austin is a big music town, so growing up, I had a lot of local heroes. Toni Price I was very, very into; she was one of the first people I tried to emulate. She’s a local Austin blues artist. Marsha Paul I was also a very big fan of.

When we got with Dallas Austin, he was just getting on. He was kinda like the fourth member of TLC.

I don’t want to be nostalgic for some kind of laid-back Austin where nothing was happening.

To give you an idea about how old I’m getting, we had some family living in Texas for a while, and we went to the Texas museum at the University of Texas in Austin, and they had this whole Texas Instruments section, and my Speak & Spell was an exhibit in the museum.

I always love to come to Austin.

Austin is such a free and creative place, but I can’t enjoy it as much because everyone I love is back in L.A.

I used to drive myself about in an old Austin van… and then have to sleep in the back because I couldn’t afford a hotel.

In 2012, the city of Austin erected an eight-foot-tall bronze statue of Willie Nelson in the heart of the business district. Schoolchildren, churchgoers, tourists, slackers, conventioneers, tech geeks – everybody, it seems – now congregate around this ponytailed shrine to outlaw country.

When you see me on TV as Stone Cold Steve Austin, that’s definitely a part of my personality.

I did make ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin the Million Dollar Champion on Raw. You know I saw the talent in Steve and I remember telling him – because a lot of people were telling him ‘You need to do more’ – I remember telling him, ‘Don’t do anything different, because what you do is believable, it’s real.’

I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.

In cities like New York and Austin, there’s much more of a social context for music than in other places.