Ed Lee Quotes

The air smelled like Bayou Teche when it's spring and the fish are spawning among the water hyacinths and the frogs are throbbing in the cattails and the flooded cypress.

The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.

For me, how I feel about what I wrote down turns into a song.

Golf is played between the ears and if you are not 100 percent focused on what you are trying to do, then people will go past you no matter who you are.

I tried to learn the languages - Italian, Spanish, and German - not to successfully. Working on a European set isn't a hell of a lot different from working on an American set.

I do not foresee 'spaceships' to the moon or Mars. Mortals must live and die on Earth or within its atmosphere!

What do I miss about the UK? Sadly, almost nothing. Maybe the midnight sun, in June in the north. That's all.

As far as I am concerned, Don Quixote is the most metal fictional character that I know. Single handed, he is trying to change the world, regardless of any personal consequences.

Just remember, somewhere there's some guy who's tired of putting up with her crap

I like it when the waiter askes you if you want parmesan cheese on your dinner, yeah, give me essence of puke all over me tea!

Your sexual attributes are simply chemistry and setups within your DNA. They are given by agreement as gifts for you to experience in this life.

We're at a great transition point in terms of population, demographics, and what it means to be a human being.

'What is' is more important than 'what should be.' Too many people are looking at 'what is' from a position of thinking 'what should be'.

If you can't take a hit, you're not going to last long, that's for sure.

Critics like to build you up, tear you down, and then, if you're lucky, build you up again.

I don't get tripped up in technology. I use technology as a tool. 'Oldboy' we shot Two Pro 35mm. For 'Da Blood of Jesus,' we shot digitally. We shot the new Sony F55. It's a 4K camera.

Photographs also show the way that the camera sees. It's not just me or you or anybody else. The camera does something that is different from our own setting.

God is love, but get it in writing.

Photography is a generous medium.

You may not have chosen what is happening to your body, but you can choose how you respond.

I am very lucky because everything that I do is exciting to me. It's always new.

Nothing is more powerful than beauty in a wicked world.

It bothers me to know there is the possibility that I as a Christian would be not only an underdog, but that I would be trodden upon if I claimed that I was a Christian.

Change everything except your wife and kids

Circumstances hell! I make circumstances!

I cry alot-I dont know why, but it just helps me. I cry over bad and good stuff-sometimes sadness can be beautiful

Courage would be impossible in a world without pain.

If I tell you I'm good, probably you will say I'm boasting. But if I tell you I'm not good, you'll know I'm lying.

A rough should have high grass. When you go bowling they don't give you anything for landing in the gutter, do they?

For me, it's an honor for the military to ask me to go to Iraq, Afghanistan, or GITMO. I'm happy to go.

Kubrick ate it up. He loved it. He just let me go crazy.

Let us not become the evil that we deplore.

Most kids will not volunteer to eat veggies. At times you must step up to the plate and enforce the rule of authority as a parent.

When little old ladies recognize a guy who was Mr. Olympia, that's saying something. That means I've been able to cross lines as far as marketability is concerned.

In order to be a good actor, I'm a firm believer that you need to bring something to the table.

My success will be remembered by others. I don't have to constantly remind myself. However, I must always remember my failure, for if I forget them, I am bound to myself.

If you show people you don't care, they'll return the favor. Show them you care, they'll reciprocate.

My objectives are very limited. I want to do the best I can with the talent God gave me. I hope to goodness that every novel I do gets better and better, not worse and worse.

Anybody who decides to take me on needs to put on knuckle-dusters. If you think you can hurt me more than I can hurt you, try. There is no way you can govern a Chinese society.

The world has always been like a comic book world to me! What's happened is that communications got better and better, so now with cell-phones we can be in touch with people half a globe away.

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That's never possible.

God bless the Reference Librarians

I'm the goofball. I'm the person cracking people up.

99% of the putts that are short don't go in the hole

I don’t want to hang on and Cry over something so little, Like a springtime illusion that’ll disappear after I wake up

I haven't a clue if there is life on other planets but I'd be charmed if we found a unicellular organism on Mars. It would change our whole concept of life on Earth.

I fear other actors who are not prepared. And I fear directors who are afraid.

I feel like all of my characters now take this congested situation, they clash, and from there you purge yourself.

Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.