Top 55 Rod Quotes

When I think of character actors, I think of Spencer Tracy; I think of Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall. When I was a young lad watching films, my eyes were on them – watching ‘On the Waterfront,’ my eyes are on Rod Steiger and Karl Malden, not on Brando.

I got invited to the Playboy Mansion with the Lonely Island guys after their first season on ‘SNL,’ and I sat in the corner drinking coffee and talking to Akiva Schaffer about what aspect ratio he was going to shoot ‘Hot Rod’ in. Like, that’s what we talk about.

Sometimes I had to spend a whole day mixing a boiling mass with a heavy iron rod nearly as large as myself. I would be broken with fatigue at the day’s end. Other days, on the contrary, the work would be a most minute and delicate fractional crystallization, in the effort to concentrate the radium.

It’s a lovely moment when everyone’s part of something greater than the sum of its parts. That encapsulates what a comedy gig should be, with the comic as the lightning rod, the Norse mischief god, getting the audience to do something they wouldn’t necessarily do.

Rod’s always opening doors for me, but I usually tell him to walk through first. Otherwise, if we’re at a restaurant and I’m in front, the paparazzi end up getting a big giant close-up of me, and then he’s trailing behind, looking like my little child!

You never know how many times you’re going to be able to come out on Rod Laver Arena and just play.

Some of my best childhood memories are of watching Terrell Davis with my dad. I used to hang out when I was, like, 4 and 5 years old and play Power Rangers in the locker room with him and Shannon Sharpe and Rod Smith. And I loved Terrell. He was awesome.

You have seen it: You can put something into the world, and all of a sudden, everybody believes that. Like throwing a fishing rod and the fish bite into.

Science is a hobby, and I’m really into it, but it’s not my job. My job is to learn about comedy and to make people laugh. Science, for me, is probably a bit like Danny Baker’s love of football or Rod Stewart’s obsession with train sets.

Rod has always been like my third child and my most demanding boy out of the three.

Because of my tremendous respect for Bob Barker and for the show’s high standards of professionalism I consider this a tremendous honor that few announcers have ever been treated to. Both Rod’s and Johnny’s shoes are huge; I can’t think about filling them.

Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

Simon Cowell and I are great friends, and we wind each other up. Rod Stewart and I do the same thing.

When we announced that we were going to support Bitcoin companies, we became a great lightning rod for activity and fun.

I’m not romantic; I’m very practical. There are lots of fish in the sea; so whoever gets struck with your rod, one is as good as another.

Rod’s always been a keen sportsman, so he didn’t live as excessive a life as some musicians.

Monofilament is what you use to go fishing. The line on your fishing rod is probably going to be black. You get to the end of the line and you tie on this clear plastic, thin thread called monofilament.

The thing you can’t measure is someone’s heart, someone’s desire. You can measure a 40, his vertical, his bench press, and that might let you know things like, yeah, he can jump high. But desire, his dedication, his determination, that’s something you can’t measure. That’s something you can’t measure about Rod Smith.

Rod has such a wicked sense of humour. I loved him very much.

Rod Strickland has been influential. He gives me a lot of advice, good and bad games; he is someone I really look up to a lot.

Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.

I got the best of Rod. And I am fully aware that, even though I love listening to his stories of the crazy days, no relationship could really last then. I sometimes wish I could go back in time to the 1970s or 1980s, sit at a bar, and observe him, but I’m glad our time came when it did.

One song I do is ‘The First Cut is the Deepest.’ I try to remind people I wrote that song, not Rod Stewart.

I don’t hate Rod Stewart. I think he’s an incredible talent, funny, darling. Just didn’t make a good boyfriend.

It was always the singer that was the front man, but Mike stood there and played piano and keyboards. He had a great voice and he was the Sixties’ Rod Stewart, and he contributed a tremendous amount to the Dave Clark Five.

If being the lightning rod that started the Tea Party is what’s written on my tombstone, I’ll be very happy.

Let tyrants shake their iron rod.

The big post-election story if Obama wins the presidency will be in the hands of the ethically embattled Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich. He’s not very popular, and has a chance to use his power to appoint an Obama replacement as a step in the direction of political rehabilitation.

Rod and I believe that it’s our duty to set an example, which means teaching our children to treat others as they would wish to be treated.

I discovered that it was a lonely world being a solo artist. Then I started working with another solo artist, Rod Stewart, and he used to tell me how lonely he was!

We don’t discuss race, so just the discussion of race has become racist. We’ve been trained that it’s such a lightning rod that we don’t even want to say the word.

I think Uber is just very different; there’s no model to copy. It may be the reason why we’ve been a lightning rod in so many ways, because we don’t do anything conventional… And then I think also, as an entrepreneur, I’m a bit of a lone wolf.

It’s interesting how Rod Stewart can father a child at 65, and a straight, single footballer named Cristiano Ronaldo can arrange to have a surrogate have a baby, and neither of them receives any criticism.

Because of my political views, I’ve been targeted as a lightning rod, someone who’s too far out there.

I seem to be some sort of lightning rod. I just really irritate people, you know? I really do.

The fact is, I view part of what I do is, if necessary, on difficult issues, be the lightning rod.

I had planned on taking things easy for a while in 2014 but things started to crop up and I ended up having quite a busy year, with events including the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games with Rod Stewart.

My most precious possession is a 13.5-feet-long fishing rod, made by an American firm called Loomis.

I became very close with Charles Bronson and his wife, Kim. We did ‘Sea Wolf’ together along with Christopher Reeve. I’ve been lucky enough to work with some amazing, legendary actors. I worked with Rod Steiger twice, for instance.

Rod Stewart helped me to realize what I didn’t want in a boyfriend.

I went to my first live concert when I was seven, with my mum Eleanor, a staunch Rod Stewart fan. I’ve never looked back.

I used to go along to the auditions for school plays but I never had the courage to actually audition. I wanted to sing though and was really into Elton John, Rod Stewart and Queen, so I eventually forced myself to sing at Brean Sands Holiday Park in Somerset when I was 14.

Rod’s not very good at confrontations; he would rather walk away and avoid something rather than go into it.

I love ‘The Twilight Zone,’ the original black and white ones with Rod Serling’s wee bit at the beginning.

The input of Idle No More has been a lightning rod for people who were already thinking this way. We are reaching clarities on bigger issues like fracking and GMOs and climate change.

I tried to be just a singer of standards when I was starting out. And there was nothing special enough about my voice to make it that far. So I feel a bit like Rod Stewart. Once you’ve had that rock career, people will give you that chance where otherwise they might not.

I don’t think people expect Bruce Springsteen to come out in a pink satin jacket, but Rod Stewart, they do. And I like doing it; I don’t wear it just because I think I have to. I’m a very flamboyant person.

Society may be likened to a rod, which only a just government can balance properly.

I can imagine that Rod Stewart likes giving autographs because he’s pure showbusiness.

As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience.

One of the biggest mistakes people make when hanging curtains is hanging them too low. It can make a room feel really shrimpy to hang the curtain rod just above the window moldings. Go all the way up to just below crown moulding or below the ceiling if there is no crown.

If you are AC/DC, you don’t get credit for slow songs. And if you are doing a show about food with a blond dude with crazy blond hair and tattoos who drives a hot rod, of course everyone is going to think everything you eat is deep-fried.

I broke five vertebrae, and they had to rod my spine because I broke my sternum, too.

Even Rod Woodson will tell you his best year he had as a professional was when he was 36 years old. If you think about why, you’re much wiser.

McCain courted in 2008 what I would call ‘fringe’ evangelicals, in part because evangelicals were skeptical of his commitment to values voters. McCain’s embrace of Palin came after having to scuttle endorsements from John Hagee and Rod Parsley, charismatics who believed in Armageddon and fiercely supported Israel.