A.S.A. Harrison Quotes

I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.

I'd like to think that all the old Beatle fans have grown up and they've got married and they've all got kids and they're all more responsible, but they still have a space in their hearts for us.

I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.

I don't want to be a film star. I don't even want to be a pop star. I just want to live in peace.

Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out.

It makes me proud, and it makes me scared. More than anything, I want to be an actor and I want to keep working, and I think there's a danger in being perceived as a poster boy for something.

I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself. Honesty is very important to me as an actor and as a person. I didn't even think about it.

I feel quite lost INSIDE myself, like I'm looking for my train tracks for my life, as if they would just appear and solve the growing questions I seem to face (my reflection in the morning).

I always liken it to being a referee - if you notice the referee, that's not a good thing.

All religions are branches of one big tree.

What is light without dark? Right without left? What is goodness without the option to be evil?

Articulation is the tongue-tied's fighting.

So it's really a process of actually having a realization of God, which all becomes clear with the expanded state of consciousness that develops when you chant.

Everyone's seen the Beatles.

I always like to be somebody scary. When I was little, my mom used to make our costumes. She's really creative and would make us great costumes without having to spend a lot.

Your own space, man, it's so important. That's why we were doomed because we didn't have any. It is like monkeys in a zoo. They die. You know, everything needs to be left alone.

I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.

His right ear still held both studs, and I wondered who had the missing earring. I would have asked, but was afraid he’d tell me Ivy had it.

Life has a way of taking its toll on the person you thought you were.

Listen before you draw your battle lines, lest you alienate your allies.

Beware of sadness It can hit you It can hurt you Make you sore and what is more That is not what you are here for.

While everybody else was going mad, we were actually the sanest people in the whole thing.

Life is like a rain drop on a lotus leaf. Everybody realises that you're either very lucky person or you're not.

To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort

The people gave their money and they gave their screams, but the Beatles gave their nervous systems, which is a much more difficult thing to give.

The circle is the fundamental geometry of open human communication.

Surround yourself with a loving community.

Be straight with yourself just to maybe save a few more people from being stupid and being ignorant.

It's a matter of turning your consciousness inward in order to then realize that God is in there, and then you can see him outside too. It's just a shift in attitude, really.

The Greek word for Christ is Kristos, which is, let's face it, Krishna, and Kristos is the same name actually.

Knowledge is Power. Ignorance is Bliss. But curiosity—even if it had killed the cat—is king.

You're asking me will my love grow. I don't know, I don't know. You stick around now it may show. I don't know, I don't know

Be healthy, don't eat meat, keep away from those Night-Clubs and MEDITATE.

Irish as a person but I feel Jewish as an actor.

It's God's love manifest in this world through everything that's in this world, and all the people in the world.

I'll play what you want or I won't play at all.

It's wonderful to look back and think you were part of a force that shaped modern music and influenced the public in so many ways. However, that's all in the past.

Never claim credit for anything. 'Cause you can't righteously do that. There's luck and grace and accident.

In the end it doesn't matter what you do.

If you drive a car, I'll tax the street; if you try to sit, I'll tax your seat; if you get too cold, I'll tax the heat; if you take a walk, I'll tax your feet.

Composing's not voluntary, you know. There's no choice, you're not free. You're landed with an idea and you have responsibility to that idea.

God is actually inside. He lives in our hearts.

A little understanding of "As you sow, so shall you reap" is important, because then you can't blame the condition you're in on anyone else.

I don't know how you were diverted You were perverted too. I don't know how you were inverted No one alerted you.

Rachel?” came Ivy’s voice from her room. “Where’s my sword?” “In the foyer where you left it last week when the evangelists were canvassing the neighborhood

And when things start to go wrong, a good boss doesn't just fire everybody and start over.

Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.

I was so young when I was born.

...It's easier to find a way to make money at something you love than to learn to love a job that you can make money at.

I hope somebody does this to all my crap demos when I'm dead, making them into hit songs.