I had my battles. I had my times of just being upset and God would show me, ‘Hey, I’m right here, I’ll walk you through this and it doesn’t make sense now but just trust me.’ That’s where faith come in – trust.
It doesn’t bother me when someone is totally unaware of anything I’ve ever been in or done and says, ‘Hey, man, I really like your music. I’ve never heard of you.’ That doesn’t bother me at all.
When I get in a bad mood about anything, I realize, ‘Hey, I’m still working. It could always be a lot worse.’
If we can’t have the courage to tell our constituents, hey, we’ve got to cut back, then if we can point to something and say, I would like to vote for more benefits for you, but this balanced budget amendment or statutory spending cap or whatever the device is, is preventing me from doing it.
I can be a rock star with a television show and still have a self-esteem problem. So it’s nice to have your dad go, ‘Hey Melissa, I’m proud of you – you’re doing good.’
There are plenty of genre-crossover books, films, and games out there, but to do the job well, you have to do more than just smoosh a couple of ‘in’ concepts together, and hey presto, instant millions.
Now my son Travis wants to finish all of his schooling online and be a full-time actor. I said, ‘Hey, it’s not all riding bicycles and egging cars and houses. Why don’t you go finish the seventh grade, and we’ll talk about it later.’
At the Grammys, you walk down the halls and everyone’s got five security guards. You can’t talk to anybody. You always feel out of place, like, ‘Hey, the rednecks are in town!’
People still come up to me and say, ‘Hey, ‘Teen Wolf!’ ‘Teen Wolf Too’ closed a week after it opened. Where did they see it?
I’m super and very openly obsessed with voice-over. ‘In a World…’ was my love letter to the industry of voice-over. And in a way, I sometimes think of it as a 93-minute audition to the voice-over industry to say, ‘Hey. Consider me!’
I remember as a boy when the conversation on civil rights was won in the South. I remember a time when one of my friends made a racist joke and another said, ‘Hey man, we don’t go for that anymore.’
As a kid, I used to sit there and figure out how to play everybody’s song, and through learning all those songs I learned how to put chords together, and it evolved till I could say, ‘Hey, I just wrote that.’
When Steven Spielberg comes to you and says, ‘Hey do you want to write a movie about robots?’ You just say yes.
You don’t really get it from NASCAR that they want you to be the bad guy or the good guy. They’ll kind of joke around with you and be like, ‘Hey, that was really good this past weekend. You did a great job for us. Ratings were up.’
I mean, a Mexican boy couldn’t be anything else but an Indian. And why did you take the name of Quinn, they used to say to me. Hey, you’re an Indian, so I played Indians.
My voice right now, hey, listen. I don’t know how long it’s going to last.
I accidentally met Don Callis in Japan. I was at New Japan and I was with mutual friends, and I met Don on accident and started telling him some of my ideas. We started talking and he basically at dinner was saying, ‘Hey, we should give you a job.’
My plan for the online version of ‘Famous Monsters’ is to become an online ‘uncle’ to an entire group of people who have never read or heard of ‘Famous Monsters of Filmland.’ The site will not be written in a scholarly fashion. It will be written in a playful, ‘Hey, check this out!’ kind of way.
You can say, ‘I am a poet, rock-climbing shaman, and my name is Hiawatha Moonbeam,’ and people in America will say, ‘Hey, that’s great. All power to you, man’.
Frank Sinatra. Hey, Frank, I saw you in ‘The Pride and Passion,’ and I want to tell you the cannon was wonderful!
A lot of people in Hollywood are on that ego trip. They think they’re more than somebody else. I’ve told a lot of stars in my career, ‘Hey, man you’re looking down on the people who made you. lf you keep doing that, you’re gonna fall back down.’
If what you do in life is perform to open up eyes and minds, to make people laugh, then it better damn well be new! It shouldn’t be just a repetitious ‘Hey, I’m still here!’
Moderators may take flak – but, hey, that’s part of what we sign up for.
I’ve never had any real big blow-ups. I go against the grain. Hey, it’s life, I’m happy.
Some people have a misunderstanding about the Army. Some people think, ‘Hey, you’re in the military, and everything is super-hierarchical, and you’re in an environment that is intolerable of criticism, and people don’t want frank assessments.’ I think the opposite is the case.
I don’t want this to be, ‘Hey, you’re the guy who had that one show. What are you doing now?’ I want it to be a career.
A lot of people don’t like bumper stickers. I don’t mind bumper stickers. To me a bumper sticker is a shortcut. It’s like a little sign that says ‘Hey, let’s never hang out.’
Twitter is maybe the worst thing. It’s cool when you can tweet out your show and be like, ‘Hey, come see my show,’ or ‘Check out this Kickstarter,’ but it’s also this weird 140-character vehicle for insidiousness.
When someone insists that you watch a show that’s already been on for a few seasons, they’re basically saying, ‘Hey, you’re not doing anything for the next five weeks, are you? Because have I got a plan for you every single night! It’s ‘Weeds!”
Usually, impersonations come out of something you dig, because you’re listening to it over and over. And you kind of start developing… You’re really trying to emulate them, then you realize, ‘I sound ridiculous doing this. Oh, hey, maybe this is a funny impersonation.’
For the first time ever, overweight people outnumber average people in America. Doesn’t that make overweight the average then? Last month you were fat, now you’re average – hey, let’s get a pizza!
‘Twilight’ has been a great opportunity, and it’s been great fun. Hey, if I’m 50, and someone still wants an autograph for ‘Twilight,’ OK, cool.
Zombies are so popular. There’s a lot of chaff out there. For every one person who is legitimately passionate about zombies, there are a hundred people who are thinking, ‘Hey, I can make a buck off of this.’ The problem is that some of their stuff is so lame.
Sometimes we just sit around and sit on our hands and don’t do anything because it’s like, ‘Hey, that’s not my problem.’ You can’t do that when you’re a superhero.
I literally will write Shonda Rhimes, the creator of ‘Grey’s,’ an e-mail once a month or so and just say, ‘Hey, I love you and thank you.’ That was my moment. Because of that, I’m doing ‘Magic City.’
I really thought I was gonna have a straight gig. But these jazz musicians put their arms around me time and again and said, ‘Hey, young fella, you’re one of us. Come with us.’ That’s a big deal when you’re young and looking for your way in the world.
I don’t know what a person does that does not have a relationship with God. When he goes to the doctor and the doctors says, ‘Hey, you’ve got less than two months to live and there’s nothing we can do for you.’ Who do they turn to when you’re given something that earth shattering?
Hey, a woman changed her mind – what else is new?
It’s less to do about me – ‘Hey, I’m black and it hurts my feelings; it’s a symbol of slavery and oppression’ – and more to do with the fact that, as an American, I will not honor a group of treacherous traitors. That’s why I despise the rebel flag.
In the early years, I found a voice that was my voice and also partly my father’s voice. But isn’t that what you always do? Why do kids at 5 years old go into the closet and put their daddy’s shoes on? Hey, my kids do it.
Regarding social media, I really don’t understand what appears to be the general population’s lack of concern over privacy issues in publicizing their entire lives on the Internet for others to see to such an extent… but hey it’s them, not me, so whatever.
I can’t say to Elton, ‘Hey, let’s walk around the corner and have a coffee.’ Someone as well-known as that can’t go anywhere in the world without being recognised. Elton has written the soundtrack to a lot of people’s lives, so they feel a kinship with him, so they come up, and that does colour things.
Acting is a cruel enough business. One minute everyone’s going ‘Hey!’ and the next they’re going ‘Who?’. You certainly don’t need people knowing your private business, especially if you want to come out with your head still attached.
It’s about enjoying what you do, and that’s what I try to tell everybody, ‘Hey. When we wake up tomorrow, let’s go hard again and let’s try to do better.’ That’s all we can do, and that has been me all these years. I’ll keep doing that until I retire.
We became friends as we became a band. Our friendship evolved as the band evolved. It had its ups and downs, but it was mostly ups for the four of us. We got along well almost all of the time. Hey! We liked each other and we still do.
Van Morrison is probably, at this point in time, my biggest influence as a vocalist. When we were making our last album I had a vinyl copy of ‘Veedon Fleece’ in the vocal booth in front of me, in the dorky sense. I think there were candles around, which is really tacky, but hey, I needed to channel Van the Man!
Facebook, from what I can tell, is the virtual equivalent of dropping into the homes of several million people, all of whom say at the same time: ‘Hey! Let’s set up the slide projector!’
