Ed Lee Quotes

It's not unlike the movies for human actors. Once a dog stars in a movie, they don't work very much anymore. It's kind of heartbreaking.

Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me.

The dog actors and the relationship they have with their trainers is one of the most beautiful things I've ever watched happen in front of me.

Now all of a sudden I'm so less interested in pretending to be a lot of other people, and much more interested in being me.

My life is so filled with my children, my family, and the charitable work I do.

I too was a little embarrassed by my recent topless 'scandal' and the subsequent parodies.

Being a parent is a weird juggling act - and nobody does it right. Everybody does it wrong.

You'll never see me in the front row of a fashion show. I'm uninterested in it; I find it trivial and banal and boring.

The media nowadays has given the message to adults. Don't try new things, don't look foolish because we will catch you and then broadcast it to the world. I think children don't have that.

My kids are not interested in anything I do. And I mean that not in any dis to my children or dis to me. My kids have their own life, they could give a sh*t what I do.

It's very hard, when you're a famous person, to "de-famous" your home, but tokens of my fame just felt like a burden for my children. And for me.

And in the end, I think, we're all just trying to survive, aren't we?

I was once on a panel where we concluded that the only things you couldn't have in YA were boring and beastiality. Now with the introduction of shapeshifters, I'd say just boring.

Sometimes what we want or don't want doesn't matter in the end.

I can do movies maybe that have already been written, but I can't do anything for months at a time.

Pilots get made, and they don't go to series. Stuff gets written and never gets made. I've tried to develop stuff that never went. It comes and it goes. It's a part of the process.

I think kids like chaos, in an interesting way. I think kids like to push buttons in adults. They like to antagonize and cause trouble. I think it's the kid-like spirit that kids respond to.

It's difficult to get away from the shadow of a TV character.

I was a little nerdy, but I got along with everybody. I had fun at school - skateboarding, surfing, getting kicked out of class for making too much noise.

I was born in Orange, California and I grew up in Huntington Beach. I started skateboarding when I was five and continued to do so off and on over the years.

My dream is that all South Africans from all walks of life will have the opportunity to read my books and use the information therein to successfully invest in property

I don't have a problem with enthusiasm.

Love is jealous that any should come before her, or after. She would be all in all. If a man will trust her and live in her, he shall know all things.

Ibsen is at heart an optimist. He could not close his life's work with a note of negation. When We Dead Awaken is a clear, ringing call to the future.

Realism and art cannot live together.

Love will not serve those who do not live for her, and in her, and to whom she is not the breath of life.

Make sure you put quality into every practice swing.

People are funny. They often don't mean to be, and that's what makes it even more endearing.

Headline writing is an art form.

Chinese restaurants have long been a weekly or monthly ritual for many Americans.

My siblings and I are known as ABCs, American-born Chinese.

I am obsessed with Chinese restaurants. Like many Americans, I first discovered them in my childhood.

We might be shifting away from a Eurocentric view of the United States into something that's much more multicultural, multinational, and Chinese food is just one slice of that.

Laughter in the face of danger is a mark of courage.

Omniscience ... is an excellent quality in God, but suspect in everyone else.

That the good that we do might live on after us, while the evil lies interred with their bones.

Folks are obviously reluctant to do things that they don't feel comfortable with, and the conservative nature of the state is such that they can understand property rights.

I really want to try to explore the characters from angles you've never seen and keep them classic and iconic.

No true fan wants to go to Comic-Con and get assaulted with a marketing blitz about just any old show.

I rarely draw myself, in general, and if I do, I tend to do little cute manga-esque, almost bite-sized drawings of myself.

Alasdair Fraser's Culburnie Records has quietly become one of the best Celtic music labels today.

[Superman and Lois are] kindred spirits, and they always choose to do the right thing.

There was something special and unique about the love triangle that existed between Clark Kent, Superman and Lois Lane.

A good deed is a good deed.

I've got twins and a lovely wife and a great life and I don't want to miss that. So if I'm going to miss that it's got to be for something really good.

I like some time away to recharge the batteries, not only physically, but emotionally so that I get to the point where I'm just dying to direct again and then that's the right time to do it again.

My style is all to myself.

I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want.

I am a happy man. I've had a good life.

But I don't want to do no big tours or go out on the road.