Eddie McClintock quote: "I grew up wrestling and playing football where, at the end of the game, you have a score and you're either the winner of loser. There's no score in acting, but you qualify your level of success by the people that you work with and the amount of exposure that you have."

Comedy is a comfortable yet challenging place for me. I will always feel an inner pressure to do my ...
EDDIE MCCLINTOCK

Anytime you spend 15 or 16 hours a day with someone, five days a week for six months, that's mor...
EDDIE MCCLINTOCK

I just want to be able to have fun, make a living, feed my family and create something that I'm ...
EDDIE MCCLINTOCK

I was supposed to go see Led Zeppelin when I was in, like, the 8th or 9th grade, and then John Bonha...
EDDIE MCCLINTOCK

When I decided to be an actor, years ago, I just said, 'Look, I'm not going to do this unles...
EDDIE MCCLINTOCK

You know, I Google search my own name because I'm so self-obsessed!
EDDIE MCCLINTOCK

It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize...
BARBARA MCCLINTOCK

I never thought of stopping, and I just hated sleeping. I can't imagine having a better life.
BARBARA MCCLINTOCK

I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
BARBARA MCCLINTOCK

If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you o...
BARBARA MCCLINTOCK

I never thought of stopping, and I just hated sleeping. I can't imagine having a better life.
BARBARA MCCLINTOCK

I know there's a great deal that Arnold Schwarzenegger could teach me about making movies. There...
TOM MCCLINTOCK

This is the arrangement we wanted. We're trying lots of different scenarios.
DANA MCCLINTOCK

We put as little money as possible into Internet ventures, which we feel is the best approach.
DANA MCCLINTOCK

When you know you're right, you don't care what others think. You know sooner or later it will come ...
BARBARA MCCLINTOCK

It was Lincoln who said that if you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? The answer is four. ...
TOM MCCLINTOCK

I know there's a great deal that Arnold Schwarzenegger could teach me about making movies. There's a...
TOM MCCLINTOCK

If we repealed all the laws of the world, ... marriage would still exist.
TOM MCCLINTOCK

Can't you see that marriage is a fundamentally different institution?
TOM MCCLINTOCK

sends a powerful message that it is the official policy of this state not to recognize or respect th...
TOM MCCLINTOCK

CBS was the only broadcast network to enjoy increased ratings across the board. We could not have en...
DANA MCCLINTOCK

I think it's an insult and an affront to every legal immigrant who's obeyed all the laws and done ev...
TOM MCCLINTOCK

Well, I'll be available to debate you before the Republican state convention Saturday. You name the ...
TOM MCCLINTOCK

There is no question that plants have [all] kinds of sensitivities. But just because they sit there,...
BARBARA MCCLINTOCK

I know [my corn plants] intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
BARBARA MCCLINTOCK

If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you o...
BARBARA MCCLINTOCK

Free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.
TOM MCCLINTOCK

You end up with people in the worst possible circumstances: without any job.
TOM MCCLINTOCK

Those are TBD (to be determined).
DANA MCCLINTOCK

It's no secret we'd like to expand in the top 20 markets if this is approved and the opportunities a...
DANA MCCLINTOCK

Look, 170 million Americans have watched the Olympics at some point. You couldn't expect a repeat of...
DANA MCCLINTOCK

It certainly is a possibility. It's a great investment, but that's all it is right now.
DANA MCCLINTOCK

We've been talking and are still talking about new platforms of all sorts.
DANA MCCLINTOCK

People talk about perfect timing, but I think everything is perfect in its moment; you just want to ...
EDDIE HUANG

So my one kid's 4, my other kid's 4 months, I'm 44, Barack Obama is the 44th president -...
EDDIE VEDDER

The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.
EDDIE VEDDER

I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get...
EDDIE VEDDER

Velvet is great. It's warm as well. And it's snug.
EDDIE REDMAYNE

Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.
EDDIE TRUNK

Two years ago, I shot 'Pillars of the Earth' in Budapest - it was a big part, but I had a lo...
EDDIE REDMAYNE

Guys like Howard Stern, Bill O'Reilly, Jim Rome, Bill Maher, those are the guys I love and respe...
EDDIE TRUNK

It's a character-builder to be a fan of the Chicago Cubs.
EDDIE VEDDER

As far as viewpoints, I think I'm more well-rounded and definitely more educated, and probably m...
EDDIE VEDDER

I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.
EDDIE VEDDER

If it's a good cause, I'll play just about anything.
EDDIE VEDDER

At a certain point, you realize you have a responsibility more behind yourself and your need for adr...
EDDIE VEDDER

You know, punk bands now sell with one record - their first or second record - sell 10 times the amo...
EDDIE VEDDER

It's fun singing with other people who are really good singers. There's something kind of po...
EDDIE VEDDER

I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
EDDIE VEDDER

The way we're attached to our phones these days, they buzz and twitch in our pockets, and we hav...
EDDIE VEDDER

When it comes to grunge or even just Seattle, I think there was one band that made the definitive mu...
EDDIE VEDDER

Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.
EDDIE VEDDER

It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.
EDDIE VEDDER

Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
EDDIE VEDDER

The love received is the love that is saved.
EDDIE VEDDER

Caffeine. The gateway drug.
EDDIE VEDDER

I still love radio, but TV is also an awesome platform.
EDDIE TRUNK

I've had the privilege of meeting and/or interviewing most of the top metal and hard rock artist...
EDDIE TRUNK

I want to be the Letterman of metal. I want five nights a week, Monday to Friday, 11 to 12, live. I ...
EDDIE TRUNK

My books are personal: I'm not saying they're the Bible of music.
EDDIE TRUNK

I'm completely open about the fact that I don't love every genre of metal. I like what I lik...
EDDIE TRUNK

I am so appreciative of all the attention I've gotten, especially since I don't ever conside...
EDDIE TRUNK

When I was a kid just starting out on the radio, I would always watch people. And I'd see the in...
EDDIE TRUNK

I have never said anything critical about Ozzy that he didn't say about himself many times.
EDDIE TRUNK

Jon Bon Jovi is remarkable.
EDDIE TRUNK

It's hard for people to realize now, but my gosh, when I was in school, you could not name a gro...
EDDIE TRUNK

One of the things I've done on my shows is tell stories and do interviews.
EDDIE TRUNK

People sometimes tell me that I don't talk or act or look like a metal fan. Well, what does a me...
EDDIE TRUNK

I've known Bret Michaels forever.
EDDIE TRUNK

I truly believe that you have to bring more content to the table to survive in radio than saying, &#...
EDDIE TRUNK

One thing I've learned, and I don't really blame anybody for this: most people who have a lo...
EDDIE TRUNK

I've been urged by people forever to try and start a real Rock Hall of Fame. I've had some v...
EDDIE TRUNK

The biggest compliments I've heard about 'That Metal Show' are the ones from people that...
EDDIE TRUNK

VH1 Classic is the destination for people who would be interested in a music talk show.
EDDIE TRUNK

How do you possibly say that a cover band is better than the band that created and wrote the materia...
EDDIE TRUNK

One thing people would be surprised about is that although hard rock and heavy metal are without que...
EDDIE TRUNK

The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? ...
EDDIE TRUNK

People tell me all the time I should stop and smell the roses, but I can't. I'm always think...
EDDIE TRUNK

Hard rock for me is AC/DC, Def Leppard, Tesla, Kiss. Metal tends to be louder, ruder, darker, like J...
EDDIE TRUNK

Metal never goes away. It drifts in and out, but the true fans are always there for it.
EDDIE TRUNK

They're not shooting me for deserting the United Stated Army - thousands of guys have done that....
EDDIE SLOVIK

I'm sorry I didn't go to jail for six months, then I know you could come to see me anytime y...
EDDIE SLOVIK

I think I'm going to have a lot of trouble.
EDDIE SLOVIK

Army life don't agree with me.
EDDIE SLOVIK

The only luck I had in my life was when I married you. I knew it wouldn't last because I was too...
EDDIE SLOVIK

I've made up my mind. I'll take my court martial.
EDDIE SLOVIK

I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.
EDDIE SLOVIK

Everything happens to me. I've never had a streak of luck in my life.
EDDIE SLOVIK

Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter... I am so unlucky.
EDDIE SLOVIK

Sports of every sort had always appealed to me.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER

Some friends are better shots than are casual enemies.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER

I am not a labor hater.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER

The sensation of dying is sweet, sensuous, placid.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER

The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business is to shoot down enemy ...
EDDIE RICKENBACKER

It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER

I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER

Long practise in driving a racing car at a hundred miles an hour or so gives first-class training in...
EDDIE RICKENBACKER

I shall never ask any pilot to go on a mission that I won't go on.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER

Flying is one of the safest jobs in the Army as long as you don't drop out. If you do drop out, ...
EDDIE RICKENBACKER

I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, ...
EDDIE RICKENBACKER

Fighting in the air is not a sport. It is scientific murder.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER

I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER

Never count on the crowd to take care of you.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER

I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER

Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER

My first film, 'Like Minds,' was with Toni Colette, who was extraordinary. I mean it was bas...
EDDIE REDMAYNE

What I love about acting is trying things and screwing up, then trying again, all in this protected ...
EDDIE REDMAYNE

As someone who gets nervous in silences, I spill words rather than really think.
EDDIE REDMAYNE

They're such hierarchical things, film sets, they're sort of mini societies. Often they'...
EDDIE REDMAYNE

I think all actors have a similar deal. You want some people who understand. Although it looks great...
EDDIE REDMAYNE

When you start out acting, you dream of getting an agent and getting a job. For years, you audition ...
EDDIE REDMAYNE

If gender is on a spectrum, where one finds oneself is completely unique.
EDDIE REDMAYNE

Ladies and babies, and mortgages, for that matter, can all wait. Acting has done a strange thing to ...
EDDIE REDMAYNE

And you can't complain about kissing Emma Watson. Isn't that what everyone in the world want...
EDDIE REDMAYNE

I have this horrific thing where I'm really bad with names and faces. I have an appalling memory...
EDDIE REDMAYNE

As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about su...
EDDIE REDMAYNE

I'm trying to buy a house and set some sense of roots because otherwise you're constantly ch...
EDDIE REDMAYNE

If I do a film and have to get naked, that tends to dictate how often I go to the gym. Acting in ...
EDDIE REDMAYNE

I had never been to a fashion show before going to the Burberry show last month. It was an extraordi...
EDDIE REDMAYNE

What an extraordinary thing it can be, love, how it will not defined by gender, by sexuality, by rac...
EDDIE REDMAYNE

A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfl...
EDDIE REDMAYNE

That's the reality of my life - I do normal things and then get to go to film festivals and wear...
EDDIE REDMAYNE

Most actors hate watching their own films because all you can see is the glaring mistakes, your own ...
EDDIE REDMAYNE

I always try to describe making movies like summer camp, or some holiday where you spend all day, ev...
EDDIE REDMAYNE

I did an interview once where I was asked who I found attractive and I went on about cartoons and Na...
EDDIE REDMAYNE

I am through with baseball forever. I have my farm and my home and enough to take care of me, so why...
EDDIE PLANK

There are only so many pitches in this old arm, and I don't believe in wasting them throwing to ...
EDDIE PLANK

You're either with me or you're not. And if you're not, you're out.
EDDIE PEREZ

At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
EDDIE PEREZ

Ninety percent of the people I grew up with didn't succeed.
EDDIE PEREZ

My energy level has not changed.
EDDIE PEREZ

A lapse in judgment is not a crime.
EDDIE PEREZ

Pouring concrete on land you don't own is called a calculated risk, if you don't pour you lo...
EDDIE PEREZ

If you haven't understood the world you're living in, it's impossible to think that the ...
EDDIE OBENG

We solve last year's problems without thinking about the future.
EDDIE OBENG

We spend our time responding rationally to a world which we understand and recognize, but which no l...
EDDIE OBENG

In the 21st century, somebody or something has changed the rules about how our world works.
EDDIE OBENG

I don't wish I did anything differently. The most important thing to me was to play baseball.
EDDIE MURRAY

And I tell you that's one of the reasons why I didn't have the friendships with the media, m...
EDDIE MURRAY

And like I said, I appreciate my older brothers because they would not allow me to win. They made me...
EDDIE MURRAY

I'm now the hitting the instructor with the Cleveland Indians.
EDDIE MURRAY

I'm proud to be here as a man that has played first base more than anybody in the game of baseba...
EDDIE MURRAY

It makes you feel at home when you can talk to somebody and really talk about anything.
EDDIE MURRAY

Today I join the greatest players that played the game. It is a great feeling being here.
EDDIE MURRAY

Baseball is a team game.
EDDIE MURRAY

No one was more important than my mom and dad. I know they are watching from a place up in heaven he...
EDDIE MURRAY

When I signed a contract, I was here to play 162 games.
EDDIE MURRAY

And, you know, you try and preach to them there's more to this game than just walking up to home...
EDDIE MURRAY

For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
EDDIE MURRAY

I learned life from some good teachers.
EDDIE MURRAY

When Ted Williams was here, inducted into the Hall of Fame 37 years ago, he said he must have earned...
EDDIE MURRAY

You win as a team, you lose as a team, you also do so many things together.
EDDIE MURRAY

Growing up, I liked all the stuff that everyone else was listening to, like Motown, but the biggest ...
EDDIE MURPHY

As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
EDDIE MURPHY

I'm a comedian who got into movies, so I don't really think of myself as an actor.
EDDIE MURPHY

I haven't read a newspaper in 20 years. I don't look at the computer or anything. You have t...
EDDIE MURPHY

I had a band before I did standup - I've always done music. I got known for being funny, and tha...
EDDIE MURPHY

I love the Beatles.
EDDIE MURPHY

I started out as a stand-up comedian. And that's what I'm most comfortable doing.
EDDIE MURPHY

I'm not performing anymore. I reveal myself to the audience. I reveal myself. That's the sho...
EDDIE MURPHY

I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exce...
EDDIE MURPHY

There's this little box that African-American actors have to work in, in the first place, and I ...
EDDIE MURPHY

From the very beginning, I always tried to make dialogue flow comfortably; I always did that to make...
EDDIE MURPHY

After all these years, I've done well and I'm cool. I feel comfortable in my skin, I've ...
EDDIE MURPHY

If you're involved in with something that's original, you know, you'll always go back an...
EDDIE MURPHY

I keep telling people I'll make movies until I'm fifty and then I'll go and do something...
EDDIE MURPHY

The studios gotta start making more stuff where black folks get quality stuff. But I can't trip ...
EDDIE MURPHY

If I don't die in a plane crash or something, this country has a rare opportunity to watch a gre...
EDDIE MURPHY

I'm relaxed about my career. I've been making movies for over 20 years, so I've earned a...
EDDIE MURPHY

The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
EDDIE MURPHY

I only want to do what I really want to do; otherwise, I'm content to sit here and play my guita...
EDDIE MURPHY

I don't know what my Death Row meal would be. I'm surprised that people can even eat when th...
EDDIE MURPHY

Being on 'SNL' gives you a unique experience that almost no one else has. It's like Harv...
EDDIE MURPHY

However wack anyone thought 'Whatzupwitu' was, there's not a lot of people that have foo...
EDDIE MURPHY

The thing about kids is that they express emotion. They don't hold back. If they want to cry, th...
EDDIE MURPHY

I'm 42 and the age of a guy who has kids, so I guess I'm playing right where I'm suppose...
EDDIE MURPHY

I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make somethin...
EDDIE MURPHY

I'm in a position that allows me to do what I want to do, and I do it.
EDDIE MURPHY

I'm younger than Rod Stewart and Bruce Springsteen, but I'm still getting up there in age.
EDDIE MONEY

I've always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix.
EDDIE MONEY

I love L.A. for the beach and stuff, that's the reason I live here.
EDDIE MONEY

I still do a bit of this and a bit of that. Some brews and there's nothing wrong with a bud or t...
EDDIE MONEY

It's very important to give back to the community and do anything you can.
EDDIE MONEY

I'm not trying to stay in the same place and I'm not trying to compete with what's curre...
EDDIE MONEY

To me, the glass is always half full, never half empty.
EDDIE MONEY

I don't know where Hank Aaron will break Ruth's record but I can tell you one thing - ten ye...
EDDIE MATHEWS

It's only a hitch when you're in a slump. When you're hitting the ball its called rhythm...
EDDIE MATHEWS

My business is not to show anybody anything; my job is just to do it.
EDDIE MARSAN

I had a good job as a printer in the East End. Before the unions destroyed it, that job was very luc...
EDDIE MARSAN

I listen to a lot of jazz. I'm a big Sinatra geek. I love Chet Baker.
EDDIE MARSAN

I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny - I looked like me.
EDDIE MARSAN

As children, we all hold on to the myth of omnipotence. Comics are successful because kids identify ...
EDDIE MARSAN

I've got four kids to feed and a wife to provide for. It's a worry but a great responsibilit...
EDDIE MARSAN

Different races never fazed me because coming from Bethnal Green, I'd been around people of diff...
EDDIE MARSAN

I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're d...
EDDIE MARSAN

With a face like mine, I'm never going to play a character who conquers the universe, I'm go...
EDDIE MARSAN

I'm not one of these actors who can make a bad script good. Some actors, a script can be terribl...
EDDIE MARSAN

I went swimming the other day and my wife was watching and she said, 'You know, it's funny, ...
EDDIE MARSAN

What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. ...
EDDIE MARSAN

I grew up wrestling and playing football where, at the end of the game, you have a score and you're either the winner of loser. There's no score in acting, but you qualify your level of success by the people that you work with and the amount of exposure that you have.

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Eddie McClintock

I grew up wrestling and playing football where, at the end of the game, you have a score and you're either the winner of loser. There's no score in acting, but you qualify your level of success by the people that you work with and the amount of exposure that you have.

Eddie McClintock

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