A.E. Kirk Quotes

No great television show has ever rested on just one person. They're all about great ensembles and storytelling.

I hesitate to say because it sounds silly, but the first play I did was The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Brecht.

I have turned into a bit of a homebody as I've gotten older. I don't really like to leave the couch in Los Angeles, but when a job comes around that you feel you have to do, you get up and do it.

I used to say that pot took away from my rent, and now it pays it.

After many of years of getting cast in sweet, angelic roles, I'm finally getting to play closer to my real life as a horrible person.

I'm not married and I don't have kids, and so I like to go to work.

I don't think that growing up in the entertainment industry is the healthiest place for kids. The track record kind of shows that.

To really understand what love is, you've kinda got to dig down deeper than just how you feel at the moment.

Think of someone you know who's not saved but you may be afraid to share the Gospel with that person. I've found a way that's radically effective in training people to share the Gospel.

I never had a desire to leave mainstream Hollywood. And still don't think that I've left mainstream Hollywood.

Atheism has been on the rise for years now, and the Bible of the atheists is The Origin of Species.

God's advice trumps Oprah's every time.

I think my biggest problem was, as a celebrity on a TV show, you get an inflated ego and you think you're the center of the universe.

You either believe marriage and human sexuality are sacred, or you do not.

My kids haven't watched one episode of 'Growing Pains'. I'll tell you why. When our kids were little, we never wanted Mommy or Daddy to be the celebrity mom or dad to our kids.

People want to be liked by other people so they adopt other people's standards, but for me, my standard had always been true.

Our first priority is our kids.

You'll never see Spartacus in a (expletive) chair!

Listen - pacemaker, crash, stroke. What does it mean? God doesn't want me now. That's all.

The first time I had got an offer to come to Hollywood, I turned it down. I said, "No, I'm an actor of the stage.

I have been trying to create a campaign to have our country make an apology for slavery, for the way that blacks were treated before the Civil War and after the Civil War.

I've played some good guys as well, in Spartacus, Paths of Glory and my favorite picture, Lonely Are the Brave, so I had a mixture of parts in my life.

With John Wayne, we argued all the time and we made four pictures.

I think the election of [Barack] Obama was a great step to prove to the world that we believe that all men were created equal. I think it will show that we have humility.

I think that [Barack] Obama was elected because young people are starting to get interested in their country and I think that's a very healthy thing.

My idea of a 'super bowl' is when the catcher is standing in front of the plate with the ball, waiting for me as I round third...and I make him drop it. That's a quality Super Bowl.

Now here I am almost 52 years old, it's really easy. I'm way more at peace. But when you're a competitor, and you're as intent on becoming the best in the world as I was, it comes with consequences.

Schools used to fund-raise for luxuries, like a trip to the water slides. Now, we fund-raise for things we have to have.

Guitar playing is both extremely easy for me and extremely difficult for me at the same time.

Getting sequestered and not really knowing what to do with your time and then discovering, 'Oh, I can watch a bunch of horror movies' has probably played out in a lot of people's discovery of horror.

I love 'True Blood.' I love 'The Walking Dead.' Those are fantastic series.

I was really, really wild in my early twenties and a bit self-destructive.

The movie 'Black Cat,' from 1934, is one of my favorite movies.

I don't feel pain cause it's all in the mind, And what's mines is mines and yours is mine!

Two wrongs don't make it right, but it damn sure makes us even.

There's so many wack rappers out here, I don't know where to aim at.

If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Anyone who thinks Christmas doesn't last all year just doesn't have a Mastercard.

If the Lord had meant us to pay income taxes, he'd have made us smart enough to prepare the return.

My drug of choice is beer. It's not only socially accepted, you can't even watch a football game without having it shoved in your face a thousand times.

Staying busy keeps me away from being bored, which used to be a lot of my problem.

I'm touring and I'm bored and it's an off day or I'm travelling and boom, there ya go, it's fun again cause I'm drunk.

Drinking goes with everything, there's always an excuse to drink. We sell beer and liquor 24/7/365 everywhere, you can buy a 5th of vodka at 3am on Easter Sunday if you want.

You can't get away, I can't fill my car up at a gas station without Coors Light, Bud Light, Corona, whatever, it's just the way it is.

I write my lyrics the day I sing the song, so even when I have the basic things, I'm thinking what can I change, what can I add, how many harmonies can I do.

Alexi Giannoulias' top aide was a longtime BP lobbyist.

Ordinary human laws are the means - however imperfect - by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law.

A society which denies the heart its role becomes, in very short order, a heartless society.

The aim of any good constitution is to achieve in a society a high degree of political harmony, so that order and justice and freedom may be maintained.

...ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the obscurity and poverty of their lot.