A.S.A. Harrison Quotes

I'd rather be a musician than a rockstar.

You bet your Grannie's Panties I will.

If God is in everything, why shouldn't you taste Him when you eat?

I don't think the human effect [of climate change] is significant compared to the natural effect.

Short things are short all over and long things are long all over.

I think the sense of community that exists with all the characters - that's the answer. The fact that they have found a family in their friends. It does give some depth and meaning to their lives.

I believe that the racial injustice which existed such a short time ago probably would have persisted longer if the color barrier had not been broken in baseball.

The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away.

I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.

I've always wanted to be bald. I mean it, completely bald. Wouldn't it be great to be bald in the rain?

I'm still interested in perfecting whatever talents I have and continuing to grow as an actor and continuing to be useful to the telling of the story.

I'm addicted to Altoids. I call them 'acting pills.'

I actually have more respect for people who are in the closet. You end up exposing so much of yourself because you have to talk about your sexual life. You shouldn't have to talk about it.

Some actors couldn't figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel.

It's not the years honey, it's the mileage.

I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.

Growing up is hard, love. Otherwise everyone would do it.

The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: 'What are we going to do in five years' time?' A completely different attitude.

I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.

I seek the substantial in life.

The days are stacked against what we think we are.

I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now.

Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints.

I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.

Like the end of a picnic, all the weenies will be roasted.

One interviewer asked me: 'How do you feel that you've betrayed your father?' That wasn't really very cool.

I was an only child. I hung out with my parents.

But the same things that had once attracted menow left me with a mild sense of unease. Ivy would say I was getting smarter, but I just felt…empty.

When my dad toured in '91, I think my first gig properly was the Tokyo Dome, 50,000 people indoors. That was pretty scary. I was 12, or 13.

It might be helpful to realize, that very probably the parents of the first native born Martians are alive today.

I went to university (Brown), I worked as a designer, I competed in Olympic sport (rowing) ... and I ended up being a musician. It's in the DNA, I guess.

I never really saw my dad around when the Iron Maiden and the AC/DC were playing. But he knew what I was doing. I was just absorbing music. So he just kind of left me to my own devices.

I've never wanted to be the boss.

Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.

If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that.

Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.

Consciousness and meditation are methods where you can actually obtain GOD perception.

Hippies are so phoney and fake.

As far as I'm concerned, there won't be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead.

If you're not yourself, who will be?

The more people wake up spiritually, the more they'll begin to realize the depth of what Prabhupada was saying - how much he gave.

We must do all in our power to educate the public, for I believe that in the end only a change of heart is really effective.

What do you think of the criticism that you're not very good?

Everybody should just stay at home and meditate and they'd be so much happier.

Without going out of my door, I can know all things on earth. Without looking out of my window I could know the ways of heaven. The farther one travels, The less one knows, the less one really knows.

The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them.

You've got to be humble really to be yourself or to get a chance to be yourself.

Make love, take love, but you should give love. And try to live love.

The Lord is in everything that's in creation. So, when you look at a tree, it's really a reflection of God. You see it in other people - that's him too, you know?

This song ain't black or white and as far as I know it don't infringe on anyone's copyright.