Al Cash Quotes

The hardest thing for me in Vietnam wasn't seeing the wounded and dead. It was watching the big transport jets come in, bringing loads of fresh new boys for the war.

As John Adams said, all democracies will eventually self-destruct. We seem to be doing it very quickly.

It is the people who scream the loudest about America and Freedom who see to be the most intolerant for a differing point of view.

The ephemeral nature of live performance is the part I love most - it's a monk's sand painting, carefully constructed, then wiped away in an instant.

Self-expression without craft is for toddlers.

I gave up language for a while, and I started painting.And then I only listened to Miles Davis and other instrumental music to see how it felt to be without words.

What you learn in any acting class is how to make a fool of yourself and enjoy things and get out of your head.

In school I really loved Shakespeare, and I participated in a country-wide Shakespeare competition.

You have to be kinder to yourself, because it's a part of being good.

I don't need to be crazy rich and crazy famous. I would just like to keep going.

The thing I'd miss most is the feeling when acting is going well, when you start a play and you end the night and you look back and go, "What just happened?"

If I had a child and she was a girl, I'd hope she'd do something different from me.

Acting was something I wanted to work at and put the time into.

I wanted to be a writer for a while. I was an excellent child writer. I won multiple poetry contests. I was published at age three - I think that was more about novelty than my immense talent.

I always knew that I'd probably do something in the arts.

I feel crushingly embarrassed when I do bad work, so being rejected after doing bad work is actually harder than being rejected after doing good work.

The worst feeling in the world is giving a bad audition.

No one is trying to be bad for the sake of being bad - there's always a reason behind it.

I really don't have a specific idea of where I want my career to go, I just have an idea of wanting to continue to work and work on things that I like and think are good.

The idea of a journeyman actor, people sort of say negatively - "Someone who never made it for real" - [but] I think a journeyman actor is the complete goal.

I don't know if I'll ever direct, but producing is dipping my toe into my behind-the-scenes world.

I've always just shown up to set and said the lines, [but] I want to help develop scripts and help cast and help bring a visual tone to something.

As you get older and you progress in your career, you start to want to have more control over things and you have ideas.

You have to find something you relate to in every character.

You never know what's going to happen, so you just continue with your head down and never expect things to start being handed to you.

I think that it's a myth that there's one job that makes your whole career, unless you're winning an Oscar. But even that doesn't work for some people.

Even in success, you're going to be constantly rejected.

Even though I'm on a show that I love with people that I love - I have basically the dream job - that doesn't mean I'm not getting rejected on a daily basis.

I work constantly to be better at being rejected.

There's innate competition, I think, between mothers and daughters - mine no more so than anyone else.

I think it's very hard to go into the same business as your family when you're an artist.

We live in a time where improv is king and people love improv, and I think there's a time and a place for that and people who are really good at structuring improv.

Offers come up, but I'm still fighting for jobs and auditioning and being rejected.

We're all eaters. That's our bond. Let's be real.

No company can afford not to move forward. It may be at the top of the heap today but at the bottom of the heap tomorrow, if it doesn't

No serious-minded man should have time for the mediocre in any phase of his living.

Selling is our No. 1 job. Never get away from selling a lot of merchandise personally. The more you sell the more you learn

The thought in my mind was that I must be a good merchant. If I were a good merchant, the rest would probably take care of itself.

Gospel music is so ingrained into my bones. I can't do a concert without singing a gospel song. It's what I was raised on.

However, neither he nor anyone else could have become the star Elvis was. Ain't nobody like Elvis. Never was.

When I record somebody else's song, I have to make it my own or it doesn't feel right. I'll say to myself, I wrote this and he doesn't know it!

When I get an idea for a song it would gel in my mind for weeks or months, and then one day just like that, Ill write it.

I worked there [on Pontiac] three weeks, got really sick of it, went back home and joined the Air Force.

Sam Phillips asked me to go write a love song, or maybe a bitter weeper. So I wrote a song called, "Cry Cry Cry," went back in and recorded that for the other side of the record.

It was kind of a prodding myself to play I Walk The Line straight.

My mother told me to keep on singing, and that kept me working through the cotton fields. She said God has his hand on you. You'll be singing for the world someday.

My mother always told me that any talent is a gift of God and I always believed it. If I quit, I would just live in front of the television and get fat and die pretty soon.

I say I'm not a singer, so that means I can't sing. But - doesn't it?

Sam Phillips responded most to a song of mine called, "Hey Porter," which was on the first record.

I've got no deep voice today. I've got a cold. But when I was young, I had a high tenor voice.