C.J. Anderson Quotes

Tattoos are like stories - they're symbolic of the important moments in your life. Sitting down, talking about where you got each tattoo and what it symbolizes, is really beautiful.

I'm sure you agree that animals should not be abused - whether they're cats or dogs or chickens - and that stopping this abuse should be your number one priority.

I truly believe that we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us and create the life we want to live. I have seen it happen time and time again.

Don't fall in love with a bonobo, because it's gonna die.

Interest in the lives of others, the high evaluation of these lives, what are they but the overflow of the interest a man finds in himself, the value he attributes to his own being?.

You see people walking down the street with ear buds on and looking at this or whatever, talking to themselves. So there's more and more opportunity to never be where we actually are and just be.

It's only the giving that makes you what you are.

Life has become terribly insecure. It's on the vortex of civil war. It's difficult to know how America will bring it back from the brink and build up good will.

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.

They say the first World Series is the one you remember most. No, no no. I guarantee you don't remember that one because the fantasy world you always dreamed about is suddenly real.

Acting is the hardest job in the entire world. By far. Harder than ditch digging.

it's like a squid in love with the sky.

No woman should ever lift more than 3lbs

What people need to understand is, that if they are eating animals, they are promoting cruelty to animals.

I laugh when I end up on the worst-dressed lists. I'm not trying to be fashionable. I know I'm kind of a cartoon character. Do people honestly think I'm wearing a kafkan in order to be fashionable?

Animals have always left me with a curiosity about human nature. I trust animals more than most people.

Courage is always and only one thing: It is acting with fear, not without it.

It is not a matter of being fearless. The fear is sometimes constant, but it's about moving forward regardless of the fear. Courage means feeling the fear and doing it anyway.

I don't do the gym and I don't diet. I'm vegetarian but I don't diet.

I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play.

A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.

It's not the things we get but the hearts we touch that will determine our success in life.

Seek that which within lies waiting to begin the fight of your life that is everyday.

Behind me is infinite power, before me is endless possibility, around me is boundless opportunity.

Am I a great manager? Huh. I was blessed to have a front office that found great talent, and then I was smart enough to stay the hell out of their way.

It's good to take a longer view and think, what would I really like to do if I had no limitations whatsoever?

People who wear fur smell like a wet dog if they're in the rain. And they look fat and gross.

I read myself out of poverty, long before I worked myself out of poverty.

A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God... When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy.

I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.

If people did not want their stories told, it would be better for them to keep away from me.

I'd had my daughter when I was a teenager - I took my daughter to college with me.

My memory of my mom is a wine glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other. She was a runway fashion model, and she was quite a glamorous woman.

Fortunately, I got called down to NASA for an interview. And one thing led to the next, and one day I got that call. I've been here about seven years now and am really enjoying it.

I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship.

Anxiety and fear produce energy. Where we focus that energy noticeably affects the quality of our lives: focus on the solution, not the problem.

You have to know what you stand for, not just what you stand against.

Blessed are thoseto whom Easter is not a hunt... but a find; not a greeting... but a proclamation; not an outward fashion... but inward grace; not a day... but an eternity.

If I ever find a pitcher who has heat, a good curve, and a slider, I might seriously consider marrying him, or at least proposing.

Over the years, I've trained myself to speak using the same language I would use if I were typing: meaning using full sentences in the way that paragraphs and scenes are arranged.

My dad was this sort of avant-garde guy who did all kinds of weird things. He was a true original and anybody who met him never forgot him.

Don't be carried off your feet by anything because it is modern - the latest thing. Go to the Louvre often and spend a good deal of time before the Rembrandts, the Delacroixs.

It's a gamble you take, the risk of alienating an audience. But there's a theory - sometimes it's better to confuse them for five minutes than let them get ahead of you for 10 seconds.

I'm a real workaholic.

When the guys test for the steroids, they should have no more fights.

I'd rather be looked over than overlooked.

Whenever I see a homeless guy, I always run back and give him money, because I think, 'Oh my God, what if that was Jesus?'

I became an actor because it was the only thing I could do. I didn't have any friends, I didn't fit in. But when I started acting everything in my life shifted and I felt happy.

I love it when women come up to me and tell me I'm a positive influence on their lives and the lives of their young daughters. That's a great feeling.

I won the wintergirl trip over the border into dangerland.