Al Ritter Quotes

I knew when I grew up, I always wanted to be a liar, and if you're in television, you're lying because you're just pretending to be yourself much like I'm doing now.

I'm singing for the love of it/Have mercy on the man who sings to be adored.

Netflix is like sitting at the cool kids’ table. Netflix is amazing. We’re the biggest fans of not only working there, but of the company, in general.

I'm the only person in the entire world who has never see 'Dawson's Creek.

The strongest thing that baseball has going for it today are its yesterdays.

Could anyone fail to be depressed by a book he or she has published? Don't we always outgrow them the moment the last page has been written?

Democracy cannot sustain itself amid a high degree of violence.

That we have collectively failed to halt and repudiate the war in Iraq makes us even worse than the Germans.

We say that we care about the war, but we don't even really know what we're fighting for.

My goal in Baghdad was to facilitate a debate here in the United States on America's policy toward Iraq, a debate that's been sadly lacking.

Do you know what I like about your program? Even when I'm running the vacuum, I can understand it.

Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet.

I don't think my spirituality has affected my character. I feel like my character is much more cynical about his beliefs, and I think I have to kind of drop what I believe in order to play him.

Indolent people, whatever taste they may have for society, seek eagerly for pleasure, and find nothing. They have an empty head and seared hearts.

News-hunters have great leisure, with little thought; much petty ambition to be considered intelligent, without any other pretension than being able to communicate what they have just learned.

A good name will wear out; a bad one may be turned; a nickname lasts forever.

We never read without profit if with the pen or pencil in our hand we mark such ideas as strike us by their novelty, or correct those we already possess.

Mud and water and the stumps of trees. In every direction that was all there was. Bodies fell, but the trees died standing up.

I think if you love someone, you think that they're out of your league, of course. I go for the full package though, you know, like not everything is based on looks. I go for talent and funny.

I started studying acting, got commercials, and here we are 100 years later. I'm acting and writing and I have a pool and a dog.

I have a new little stray dog that I've had for about a month now. His name is Mikey Mohawk - he's this little terrier with a natural Mohawk. My friend found him hit by a car on Pico Boulevard.

The most overrated underrated player in baseball.

Every revolution has its counter-revolution.

Those who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world of toiling reality below has been lifted by mass revolts and critics.

In matters pertaining to the care of life there has been no marked gain over Greek and Roman antiquity.

One, if you attack my integrity, I will defend myself. If you attack my patriotism, I will defend myself. If you come after my family, I will counter-attack viciously, I will destroy you.

I never get tired of smiling. I'm just the kind of guy who likes to smile.

Even if I tried to be my dad, it would be a mediocre, slightly embarrassing version.

There’s a few conspiracy theories that I believe in, but not too many.

I don't have to have any special skills or martial arts in my back pocket.

I feel like sometimes people on television shows can start taking things for granted, or they don't want to be here or something like that.

I like being challenged. That's the only way you grow.

The only reason I ever do an independent film is that I believe in it, and I think it has something special to offer. I'm certainly not doing it to be a millionaire.

Your fears never go away. You just get more comfortable ignoring them.

Do not think that your Learning and Genius, your Wit or Sprightliness, are welcome everywhere. I was once told that my Company was disagreeable because I appeared so uncommonly happy.

That happy state of mind, so rarely possessed, in which we can say, "I have enough," is the highest attainment of philosophy.

Fools with bookish knowledge art children with edged weapons; they hurt themselves, and put others in pain.

Nobility should be elective, not hereditary.

The necessities that exist are in general created by the superfluities that are enjoyed.

Sloth is the torpidity of the mental faculties; the sluggard is a living insensible.

Liberal of cruelty are those who pamper with promises; promisers destroy while they deceive, and the hope they raise is dearly purchased by the dependence that is sequent to disappointment.

Thought and action are the redeeming features of our lives.

Wit, to be well defined, must be defined by wit itself; then it will be worth listening to.

Family pride entertains many unsocial opinions.

Take care to be an economist in prosperity. There is no fear of your being one in adversity.

Many species of wit are quite mechanical; these are the favorites of witlings, whose fame in words scarce outlives the remembrance of their funeral ceremonies.

Unless the habit leads to happiness the best habit is to contract none.

Hunger is the mother of impatience and anger.

Economy is an excellent lure to betray people into expense.

Age is suspicious but is not itself often suspected.