Words matter. These are the best Craig T. Nelson Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I really wanted to do ‘Modern Family,’ and I really liked the script, and I liked the people.
No one is accountable anymore for anything.
I mean, a lot of my family are teachers.
The beauty of ‘Parenthood’ is that it’s a blue-collar working family, and it reflects attitudinal shifts that occur within people and families.
They’re just not into doing sequels after Toy Story so I don’t think that’s a possibility. But if they did, well sure, you’d have to do it. And I’d want to do it.
The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that’s what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.
I worry about making work more important than what I know to be the truth. Throughout all areas of life, we’re told how to look, how to act, what to speak, what to wear, what we should have and other people don’t have, and we know none of that means anything. Yet these other messages never stop coming.
I don’t want to be told what’s for my good.
I really want to drive a Porsche GT1 car – also a McLaren, if I could fit. I want to do LeMans badly. I want to do Spa, a European series with World SportsCars.
No one is accountable anymore for anything. No one did anything wrong. Well, you’re to blame. That’s to blame. This is to blame.
What it takes just to earn a living – working two or three jobs – is driving a wedge in families that shouldn’t be there.
I’ve been on food stamps and welfare. Anybody help me out? No. No. They gave me hope, and they gave me encouragement, and they gave me a vision. That came from my education.
Most projects that I’ve done are really not about the project. They’re about what’s going on inside and around, that journey that we’re all on, and what I can do to help that journey further itself and be of encouragement to somebody.
Being a father of three children and grandfather to nine, I do think that this thing called ‘parenting’ is becoming increasingly difficult.
I love going to work.
You can only do so much grunting and groaning and then you’re done, you know?
When you’re doing Sebring in the back straight at 185 or 187, and the car’s moving, you gotta know what to do with it, how to read it. Just the science of understanding shocks – forget spring rates – is mind-boggling.
Sometimes you’re encouraged, and other times disappointed. It’s a matter of going in and precluding all that with, ‘This is what I do, not who I am.’ I need to be who I am in the process of doing what I do. I need to stay true to what it is I’m really here for. And that’s the hardest thing, the biggest challenge.
