Adam Quotes

For me, if the writing and - by extension - the subject matter and the characters are all good, it doesn't matter if it's film or TV. Each medium has great things going for it.

I like people and I like hearing their stories. The way that they deliver them is always very particular and I think that their accents are integral to that.

People want to be friends with someone who likes to have a good time.

You can shoot a show and have it not air. It's not real until it's airing.

I'm always thinking, 'my career is over, I have to move back to Omaha, and work on the railroad, with the rest of my family. So no, I'm never thinking I've 'arrived.' I think that's a good way to be.

I was born in California. When I was six, we moved to a small town in northern Indiana called Mishawaka.

I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.

Acting is a business and a political act and a craft, but I also feel like it's a service - specifically, for a military audience.

I'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor.

In baseball, it's tough to get up for every single game, every single moment. In football, you have 90,000 fans screaming and the band's playing. I do miss that adrenaline rush.

I feel like I've been in love, but I have stood aside from it over and over again in my life. It's all you want, but it's terrifying.

You don't understand what makes you understand what makes your life better until you take something that makes it so much worse and you embrace that.

I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.

Bravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.

If you want to really love someone, you've got to let go and loosen up and just care.

Losing fights, or even winning fights, can be heartbreaking, and you can throw that away, but the truth is that it does make our lives better.

People really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.

You want to embrace, but I can't figure out how to hold on to it.

When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.

I can't remember all the times I've tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass

You aren't really writing about what you did; you're writing about how you feel.

I think I'd been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.

Being in a band is about making the band the priority.

I find that truly heartbreaking that, like, it's such a common, constant thing in people's lives - a brutal abuse of people by other people, and it's just accepted.

You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.

Closeness to another person is like a fear of falling off a building to me. It's really, like, physically painful, and it's a brand of crazy I don't appreciate having.

Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.

My life isn't necessarily more important than anyone else's: I'm just better in talking about it.

Time and time again I can't please myself.

When you're young and you play music, you have a peer group, you come out of a scene. There's a lot of people you know, and then you have some success, and it all goes away.

People ask me if I have stage fright. I say, "God, no, I'm completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright."

It's impossible having five, six, seven people in a room being creative together and not fight, because you want to fight. It's the only way creativity works, if you all put your ideas in.

There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.

When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.

Making money is pretty pointless and it needs constant attention.

I'm working harder now than ever before. I couldn't turn down the BBC job because I've never been offered the opportunity of killing three or four people on screen before!

The production pushes and pulls you as much as the song does. It's almost more to do with the production value of how each bit was done as opposed to the actual track itself.

Humour is a big part of our lives as well as our music. Making it fun is the most important thing.

The biggest thing in my life right now is my girlfriend. I love this girl. I know I love her because she told me.

I sincerely want to meet the girl that was meant for me, but I want to sleep with the girls that weren't.

My girlfriend wants to get married. I tell you - I hope she meets somebody nice.

The human body is in constant change the minute we're born. It's in a constant state of decay. We're all like Ford Escorts, just falling apart.

The girls are beautiful in Hollywood - and enough silicon to caulk a sink.

If you're in California and it's raining, stay home, because nobody can drive in the rain. It's like it's raining frogs. They're terrified.

I think human arrogance will be the demise of civilization.

Like a pet fish unaware of the fishbowl it lives in, each of us inherently discriminates against young people without knowing it.

The outcome of this culture of discrimination is that young people are routinely denied the roles in society they can, should, and need to be occupying.

Dropping out of school is the ultimately caused by discrimination against young people in schools.

Any honest conversation about engaging young people must address discrimination against young people.

Most of society's decision making for young people happens without young people, and that could not happen without adultcentrism.