I can't lie - I love talking to the people at my shows. I'm so grateful to all my fans. I couldn't do it for this long without them. So if they want to come past to say hi and whatnot, then it's part of my job to talk to them - and you know, it might be the best part of my job, too.
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Related I'm utterly androgynous, and I truly love it. It's been part of my identity for so long. I... ERIN O'CONNOR I'm utterly androgynous, and I truly love it. It's been part of my identity for so long. I... ERIN O'CONNOR Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON I don't know one lens from another. That's not my job. It's the cinematographer's jo... PENNY MARSHALL It's what I do best - pry into people's business and mind their business. I can't help m... DELILAH It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON The public don't know what they want; it's my job to tell them. ALEC ISSIGONIS I've got to wear sunglasses everywhere, all the time, even if its indoors or at night time, to b... PSY I didn't want wrestling anymore; I wanted to not want it. But I couldn't get a job anywhere,... T. J. PERKINS It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON When I'm at the greatest odds with my body, it's usually because I feel my body's betray... DEMI MOORE It's my job to make sure that the people I'm gonna team up with for my music see everything ... CAM One of the fun things as an actor is to find a character that if you were to look up a rap sheet abo... JASON RITTER I can't help other people's frustrations. I don't owe people anything. If people would l... DAVID GILMOUR I don't want to be the center of attention, which is ironic. I hate having all eyes on me - unle... CAM NEWTON It is my job to sell these fighters. I'm now a business partner of the UFC. What I do directly a... DANIEL CORMIER During my 40s, I thought I couldn't wear red lipstick. I thought it was just too much and I coul... ANDIE MACDOWELL When I write a goal down - and I truly write them down - it becomes a part of me. That's a contr... GAIL DEVERS There is a big difference between No. 1 and No. 2. I don't care who wrote it. I'd love to on... RANDY HOUSER I personally wouldn't want my second album to sound like my first; it might sound very rocky or ... BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE I don't really care if people get upset. I think I'm doing my job if people get upset; I wan... EMMA CAULFIELD It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don't regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn... CHRIS KYLE In my own relationships, I know that I should break up with someone who doesn't encourage me to ... VERONICA ROTH I don't want to run around and look at a shot through a monitor. That doesn't improve what I... JOHNNY DEPP I've never found NBA owners to be deferential. I never considered them to be reliant. All that I... DAVID STERN I don't want music to be a job for me; I want it to be something I'm doing for fun. As long ... ASTRO I want my fans to love themselves. It's almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear m... LADY GAGA Ah, much deluded! lay aside Thy threats, and anger misapplied! Art not afraid with sounds ... JOHN MILTON I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't k... MAYA ANGELOU I've been making movies a long time. I'm a professional at it. I'm not a professional at... JAMES GUNN I'm very focused on what I do professionally, and I'm very focused on my family, and I don... VICTORIA BECKHAM My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters spea... KARIN SLAUGHTER I can't talk about every single film I made. It's not my way to go back into the past and to... OTTO PREMINGER I love it when a woman hugs me. I love it when they say that I make them laugh because that means I&... SHERRI SHEPHERD I don't like it when people who are young act like they're 40. That's taking too much on... TAYLOR SWIFT I get so sad that sad gets to be. So scared that all my feelings they up and leave me. I got so... TEGAN QUIN I don't think God said we should all be soft. My job is to compete, and the best prevails. I wil... DIKEMBE MUTOMBO I'm a guy who likes to keep fighting five, six times a year, so if I ask for too much money, the... DONALD CERRONE I have no deep-seated desire to be famous; that's not what's driving me, so if it's some... CAM I really, really, really love my job, so it's not like I'm trying to quit wrestling to do mo... JOHN CENA I take my hat off to people like the Stones, but it's not for me. I couldn't do that. Jagger... PAUL WELLER People are paralyzed on a football field. People die. You just never know when it's going to be ... TROY POLAMALU I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd lo... LAURA DERN I think I had a superb campaign team. And I know it's always expected that if you lose, people p... MITT ROMNEY Everyone has that friend who's every day, like, 'I hate my nose, I hate my nose, I hate my n... LAUREN CONRAD You cannot get me to be disloyal to a friend. You just can't do it. Loyalty is a part of what I ... JIM BROWN Running was a part of my hardwiring, and that's what I wanted to do. So this is what I tell peop... DEAN KARNAZES I'm someone who started in the theater and really couldn't stand repeating the show. My favo... LIEV SCHREIBER A career is a job you love, right? That's what a career should be. If you're in a job that y... CAMERON SINCLAIR I'm not trying to brainwash my critics. If they're critics, they're critics, and that... JOHN CENA After I got my gold medal, I thought, 'This isn't just me. It belongs to my team, my friends... ALEX MORGAN When I auditioned for drama college, they asked me to do my Shakespeare. I couldn't do it. They ... HANS MATHESON I try to avoid describing one interpretation of my books. Of course I have an opinion. I have things... PATRICK NESS I don't come from a famous family and don't have this detachment from everyday people and ev... ED WESTWICK It fits my ADD, so that's good. Because I really can't focus on anything for too long. And &... ADAM FERRARA Stardom happens - you can't plan it - it's destiny, and you shouldn't stand between you ... RANDEEP HOODA It's actually really great to be a student and an actor, because I get to do this job that I lov... JULIA STILES I can't wait to front my band with these new songs and play for fans, but I've decided to ke... RICHARD MARX Alright, alright, I admit it: my husband is the quiet, kind, accepting parent, and I'm the one w... ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG My job, my whole life, I've always had that kind of doubter, people have always doubted me. And ... DWYANE WADE I didn't know how to show my self love, and I didn't want anyone else to hurt me. So my toug... MARY J. BLIGE My therapist would be so happy to know I'm doing all this walking. They've done a great job ... TAMMY DUCKWORTH Honestly speaking, I don't like my films. When I watch them, I see a lot of scope for improvemen... ABHISHEK BACHCHAN When I started writing it was kind of hard getting people to do my stuff. They' say they couldn&... OTIS BLACKWELL I don't like talking unnecessarily, and my communication skills are zilch. I just can't conv... PRITAM CHAKRABORTY My work comes out of a deep psychological place, so it's not like I'm Object Man at home. Th... TINO SEHGAL It's weird to think I have fans now, so I appreciate all of the people that follow and support m... RYAN GUZMAN I just moved into a new house, so I love spending time at home. Everything for me is all about self-... LEA MICHELE I don't really do glasses. It's a good look, but I'm not big on wearing clear glasses fo... TREY SONGZ I don't mind putting my heart out there for the audience, and for the country music fans... to b... TYLER FARR I always knew that I wanted to do voiceovers as part of my career. I just kind of didn't expect ... KARI WAHLGREN I'm thankful to say that I already have my dream job. I wouldn't trade it for anything. NATHAN KRESS I'm a liability to them - I'm a woman, I'm empowered, I'm an artist. I've had ex... ALANIS MORISSETTE If I wasn't doing candy, I'd want to create the best rescue animal-shelter organization. Oth... DYLAN LAUREN I don't want to be a part of the demographics. I want to be an individual. I wear each of my fil... JOHN CARPENTER And if I can take part in it by transforming my own consciousness, then someone else's, I'm ... BILL HICKS If it's old school friends that my parents know, then I can stay out till late. But if they don&... TENA DESAE I'm not going to just stop doing it because I got hurt once. People get hurt in car wrecks every... TONY STEWART Everything I do is for my parents, None of this matters without them. If it weren't for them, I ... J. R. SMITH I think, if I'm doing my job correctly, I'm presenting a scenario for you as the reader to e... T. C. BOYLE It's important for me to let my fans know I really don't care. I'm confident. DRAKE I would love to make my entire career as the guy who did not get cheered. Of course, I'm still g... DOLPH ZIGGLER Oh, I love to lie. That's one of my favorite things in the world, coming up to somebody, especia... ALICE COOPER I don't plan or schedule my career thinking first I will play a common man, then a police office... NIVIN PAULY Everything I do is for my parents and my family. The car is nice, the house is nice, but none of thi... J. R. SMITH I do what I do to inspire people. They can't be inspired by an ego, a big-headed person. It does... LA'PORSHA RENAE I don't 'handle' people. It's so much easier to manipulate actors than to really hav... JON FAVREAU People say I am the king of painful shoes. I don't want to create painful shoes, but it is not m... CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN I really want to do a film in another language. My dad's from Germany, so it'd be really coo... KIRSTEN DUNST I didn't want to play these people any more songs and have them say that they weren't good e... AIMEE MANN I come from a simple background, so I couldn't call my father and say, 'Come pay my bills,... CAMILA ALVES It's definitely part of my job description not to be too fat. ELIZABETH HURLEY I said, I'm on this TV show and I love doing it, but I don't want to be known always as the ... ZACH BRAFF If we don't have an informed electorate we don't have a democracy. So I don't care how p... JIM LEHRER I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and ... LEO BUSCAGLIA Everyone Instagrams all the people they are with. I get that it's part of the job. But there'... EDIE CAMPBELL This is a lifetime job. You don't look at it, you know, now and then. It doesn't really matt... HARRY TRIGUBOFF I like to play around with people who don't know me. Often I'm talking to people through my ... MARLEE MATLIN You come to me and it's my job to make you look the best you can look. From an image point of vi... OZWALD BOATENG
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CHUCK NORRIS I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapo... CHUCK SCHUMER California club pop chirper Dev's debut is as stark as it is sweet. This is owed partly to the c... CHUCK EDDY Acceptance speeches can make or break presidential candidacies. It was Al Gore's 2000 acceptance... CHUCK TODD I'm a can-do conservative, and I just love the job, and I think I'm going to get re-elected. CHUCK FLEISCHMANN Government and culture are two diametrically opposed forces - the one blinds and oppresses, the othe... CHUCK D Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth. CHUCK NORRIS Every day, we are bombarded with a multitude of toxins in the environment. We know that the negative... CHUCK NORRIS I was raised as a Catholic, but I got up to go to church because I thought I'd be hit by a bolt ... CHUCK FEENEY My grandfather was hit over the head by a crane boom in Seattle. Some of the family claimed he was n... CHUCK PALAHNIUK I feel sorry for people who have to edit me. Which is why book writing is by far the most enjoyable.... CHUCK KLOSTERMAN Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basi... CHUCK KLOSTERMAN The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I'm totally conscious of that. To me, book wr... CHUCK KLOSTERMAN Movie brawls tend to be bloodless and quick. CHUCK PALAHNIUK Helplessness is such a rotten feeling. There's nothing you can do about it. Being helpless is like b... CHUCK BARRIS Hey, even the Mona Lisa is falling apart. CHUCK PALAHNIUK We can't deal with the flood in the orchards until we cap the floodwaters coming into them. And ... CHUCK NORRIS Of course voting is useful. But then again, I don't put a big glow to it. Voting is about as ess... CHUCK D In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mista... CHUCK SCHUMER Brazilian music has many of the ingredients that I strive for in my own music: Strong melodies and a... CHUCK MANGIONE You decide your own level of involvement. CHUCK PALAHNIUK Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolis... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Everyone knows that the Internet is changing our lives, mostly because someone in the media has utte... CHUCK KLOSTERMAN The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person. CHUCK PALAHNIUK If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person? CHUCK PALAHNIUK The most boring thing in the entire world is nudity. The second most boring thing is honesty. CHUCK PALAHNIUK Hysteria is impossible without an audience. Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in a... CHUCK PALAHNIUK The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run f... CHUCK PALAHNIUK You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth. CHUCK PALAHNIUK The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. CHUCK PALAHNIUK What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven. CHUCK PALAHNIUK Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of yo... CHUCK PALAHNIUK All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring. CHUCK PALAHNIUK Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you. CHUCK KLOSTERMAN Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would al... CHUCK KLOSTERMAN For years now, I've wanted to fall asleep. The sort of slipping off, the giving up, the falling part... CHUCK PALAHNIUK We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will. 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I can be thin with big breasts and bi... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct. CHUCK PALAHNIUK Maybe this is why so many serial killers work in pairs. It's nice not to feel alone in a world full ... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Just remember, the same as a spectacular Vogue magazine, remember that no matter how close you follo... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Disaster is a natural part of my evolution. Toward tragedy and dissolution. CHUCK PALAHNIUK If you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything... CHUCK PALAHNIUK The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as being a man means looking the w... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Nothing is static. Even the Mona Lisa is falling apart. Since fight club, I can wiggle half the teet... CHUCK PALAHNIUK That old saying, how you always hurt the one you love, well, it works both ways CHUCK PALAHNIUK College is like a fountain of knowledge - and the students are there to drink CHUCK PALAHNIUK “Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foo... CHUCK PALAHNIUK You can kill a lifetime without feeling anything but skin. CHUCK PALAHNIUK Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring asshole and proud of it. CHUCK PALAHNIUK Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television? CHUCK PALAHNIUK On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero. CHUCK PALAHNIUK And maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't ... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Only after disaster can we be ressurected. CHUCK PALAHNIUK Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumpti... CHUCK PALAHNIUK I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some bline, random disaster, or some sud... CHUCK PALAHNIUK People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love. CHUCK PALAHNIUK While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. CHUCK PALAHNIUK Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes availa... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Las Vegas looks the way you'd imagine heaven must look at night. CHUCK PALAHNIUK It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die. CHUCK PALAHNIUK Recycling and speed limits are bullshit. They're like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed. CHUCK PALAHNIUK Maybe we should always assume the worst. CHUCK PALAHNIUK I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching. CHUCK PALAHNIUK We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. ... CHUCK PALAHNIUK You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive.... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known. CHUCK PALAHNIUK The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't know, but until ... CHUCK PALAHNIUK There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. An... CHUCK TANNER The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom. CHUCK PALAHNIUK The first step to eternal life, is you have to die. CHUCK PALAHNIUK If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person? CHUCK PALAHNIUK If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character... CHUCK PALAHNIUK When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves. CHUCK PALAHNIUK When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd... CHUCK PALAHNIUK [T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth... CHUCK SIGARS Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones. CHUCK SIGARS You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future. CHUCK PALAHNIUK On a long enough timeline. The survival rate for everyone drops to zero. CHUCK PALAHNIUK Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life. CHUCK PALAHNIUK As a former Airman First Class in the United States Air Force, like many veterans in America, my mil... CHUCK NORRIS I dread the promotion part of my job. It's agony, especially compared to the private, at-home jo... CHUCK PALAHNIUK If you want to release your aggression, get up and dance. That's what rock and roll is all about... CHUCK BERRY Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our po... CHUCK HAGEL I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my ... CHUCK YEAGER A face is a road map of someone's life. Without any need to amplify that or draw attention to it... CHUCK CLOSE Commonly, athletes will bolster their dietary intake with everyday vitamins such as magnesium and ir... CHUCK NORRIS Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet. CHUCK PALAHNIUK It amazes me when I hear people say, 'I want to go out and find out who I am.' I always knew... CHUCK BERRY I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work. CHUCK CLOSE Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, ... CHUCK JONES I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Jack Palance was my distant uncle - that's the family gossip. Growing up, my family knew everyth... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is ou... CHUCK PALAHNIUK My mother lived through the Great Depression. Her family of 11 children pulled themselves up by thei... CHUCK NORRIS We won the Cold War because we showed nuclear vigilance and diligence. CHUCK FLEISCHMANN What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way ... CHUCK GRASSLEY Forget the historic nature of his election having to do with skin color - Obama has an opportunity o... CHUCK TODD I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unco... CHUCK PALAHNIUK When children are exposed to advertisements for unhealthy food, they will, in turn, consume signific... CHUCK NORRIS To me, every interview, even if you love the artist, needs to be somewhat adversarial. Which doesn... CHUCK KLOSTERMAN My best advice for writers is: Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poo... CHUCK PALAHNIUK With a book, you're guaranteed the audience has a certain skill level and that the audience has ... CHUCK PALAHNIUK I've always found that anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way and you... CHUCK NORRIS If there had been zombies on the iceberg when the Titanic hit it, that would have made a much better... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Despite what Washington thinks or does on this 15th anniversary, we the people will never forget tho... CHUCK NORRIS Good things happen to those who hustle. CHUCK NOLL In 1966, NASA took over in space, and it has been a bureaucratic mess ever since. CHUCK YEAGER There are two tests in life, more important than any other test. On Monday morning, when you wake up... CHUCK SCHUMER Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibili... CHUCK PALAHNIUK The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage. CHUCK PALAHNIUK You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the ... CHUCK YEAGER Don't let the same dog bite you twice. CHUCK BERRY I'm thankful for each and every day. We never know when time is up. CHUCK BERRY We're making the same mistakes we made 1,000 years ago. So they must be the right ones. So relax... CHUCK PALAHNIUK What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like gr... CHUCK PALAHNIUK If the citizens of the United States are to turn away from the Communist Manifesto and preserve the ... CHUCK NORRIS Exercise, prayer, and meditation are examples of calming rituals. They have been shown to induce a h... CHUCK NORRIS The key to a winning season is focusing on one opponent at a time. Winning one week at a time. Never... CHUCK NOLL My first four books, from 'Fight Club' to 'Choke,' dealt with personal identity issu... CHUCK PALAHNIUK In 2008, while the film version of my book 'Choke' was coming to market, my mother was diagn... CHUCK PALAHNIUK That's all there was in our house: poetry and choir rehearsal and duets and so forth; I listened... CHUCK BERRY In the 7th grade, I made a 20-foot long mural of the Lewis and Clark Trail while we were studying th... CHUCK CLOSE Chuck Berry doesn't give interviews. CHUCK BERRY Maybe it is true what they say, that playing these Chuck Berry songs is easy. But try singing them. ... CHUCK BERRY Mr. Olsen in the fifth grade made me want to be a writer. He said, 'Chuck, you do this really we... CHUCK PALAHNIUK One day between takes on the 'Oz' set, I went into one of the cells and laid down and dozed ... CHUCK ZITO It's amazing because people come up to me and say, 'Chuck, you're the luckiest guy in th... CHUCK NORRIS Of all the artists who emerged in the '80s, I think perhaps Cindy Sherman is the most important. CHUCK CLOSE In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tai... CHUCK NORRIS I know that I'm going to die and that you're going to die. I can't do anything about tha... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Maybe it's better just living the way you figure life is when you're a kid. Before you get too smart... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Real smart begins when you quit quoting other people. CHUCK PALAHNIUK You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lo... CHUCK PALAHNIUK