Adam Quotes

I have loved eight women in my life. I remember every woman's face.

It makes me sad, sad inside, to see a warrior without his pride.

It's good to play 100 per cent live - no tricks, no samples, no messing about.

It's the same thing that drives people to want to experience sexual pleasure or have one too many drinks. We all want to experience the other, and to get out of our daily existence.

My wife asks me, when I get home from auditions, if they asked how tall I am. And if I say "Yes," then she says, "Okay, you didn't get that job."

Acting had always been the social scene I'd fallen into. It was sort of a merry band of band geeks and theater nerds.

You never really know the guy until you sit down with him.

If I'm gonna get my balls blown off for a word, my word is "poontang".

What hard evidence is there that Obama doesn't want ebola in America?

I'm not much of a jokester.

What I try to do is to appreciate every job I have while I'm working on it.

A lot of the questions that anyone would naturally have about their family, you'll get much of the answers for, or at least hints to where it will go, in the future.

I'm no Leonardo DiCaprio.

You can't control the audience. When you're on the air and they're not coming to the party, it's time to shut down the party.

It's great to be able to pretend you're tough but funny at the same time.

I carry two traditional pipes and I sing my songs and pray that us as human beings treat each other with respect. So when it came to trying to portray a connection on screen, that's what you see.

Classrooms and educations need to be places of infectious passion

Creating something new is easy, creating something that lasts is the challenge.

You never realize how much you value something until you are faced with the prospect of losing it.

That's when the magic happens- when everyone else is asleep and you're awake thinking about the world as it is, and the world as it could be. Make the most of those moments.

Your life should be a story you are excited to tell.

The most abundant resources that we possess amongst the 1.5 million nonprofits in the United States are passion and knowledge, yet our most scarce resource is collaboration.

I looked around and acknowledged that what you see around you is proof of what exists within you.

Every person has a revolution beating within his or her chest

In those moments when priorities clash always stay guided by your values, not your perceived necessities.

I understood that I might fail, but I wouldn't let it happen because I changed my compass along the way.

A major celebrity is a major brand, and major brands pick very critically what other brands they're going to associate with. So an A-list celebrity usually picks an A-list brand.

It is the local community that needs to own the commitment to education.

In many respects most of the books I write deal with well-known people. I think of those books as more about me than about those people.

Really, as long as I am working and have diversity, I am happy.

I always knew I was going to die in space.

I like great directors who are scarce. Prolific ones are nice too but for me, there's something about the scarcity that makes it all the more valuable.

I started drinking Scotch just to be a man.

I like to always have humour in whatever I do.

You know, you're a great barbecuetionist.

I try to make all of my roles likeable in some way.

It helps if you don't date other actors, but actresses are beautiful. How can you say no?

I have a pretty lousy voice.

I'm a fake intellectual.

I don't know anyone who's going to see Grind 22 times in the theater. My mom. Some kid who has short-term memory loss and forgot that he's seen it.

I love movie-making. I'm interested in writing and directing, and I've dabbled, but I haven't done anything I care to brag about. Yet.

I started a band [Big Japan] for fun. These sticks break easily, but they feel good.

I just want to be in good things that I want to see, and I want to work with talented people who are smarter than myself.

Okay, using the dreaded middle name is not the best way to forge a bond.

I like an interesting movie even if it's controversial or offensive, depending on your taste.

Most of the time, my favorite drama has comedy in it as well. I think most good dramas have comedy in there. And all of the dramatic actors I look up to are also very funny.

It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting.

I wish I came from a more pure place. I don't have something to say from the bottom of my soul. I just know how to take stuff I like and repackage it in a slightly different way.

Transitioning to being an unemployed film actor is different, but it's fun and I've been looking forward to it for a while.

If I don't direct a movie at some point, I've failed personally.