J.P. Morgan Quotes

Keeping the truth from the people closest to you is how you'll survive, and how you'll protect them if anything ever goes wrong.

An actors most important responsibility is to know lines well.

I was given an opportunity to join the marines instead of go to jail - and I think I made the correct decision.

Everybody who wants to be in a band should be made to join the marines.

The marines gave me an eternal discipline.

He (Frank Robinson as Manager) can step on your shoes, but he doesn't mess up your shine.

I believe you learn social skills by mixing with people.

I still have very close ties to Houston and the Astros because that was my first team.

A girl should set her sights on a man who has money; or if not, who can expect to come into money; or if not, who has moneyed connections.

I love you more than I can express, or can ever hope to express

We always think we know what we want: when in truth there is nothing we are less likely to know.

It is not always easy, for a woman alone.

Love is the hardest thing to grasp. You have to seize it at once, else it may be too late.

Grown people with rational minds somehow do not know what's best for them.

Really, I protest-what is left for the satirical mind to invent when reality so surpasses it?

We aren't born for ourselves alone. You have to take care of other people.

You couldn't expect anyone else to share your suffering. You had to carry your pain alone.

We are all one, learning strength from weakness.

I had not found a new religion but I had found a new faith.

A musician carries the music within him. He needs no specific instrument. he is the music.

I learned that as long as I had anything in my heart or head I still felt necessary to hide, it would not work. I had to come to peace with everything.

The only way to pass any test is to take the test. All tests on every level are always repeated one way or another until you pass.

The time has come to listen to the frightened moans of our fellow brothers and sisters and indeed the earth itself is in pain.

The less you take from the land, the less you owe in return.

You either have faith or fear, not both.

Born empty handed, Die empty handed. I witnessed life at its fullest, Empty handed.

I wondered what else in my life I perceived to be wrong or difficult instead of exploring to understand the true purpose.

It is time. You must lead. Ultimately everyone must at some time lead.

At the time I was growing up in the business I was very well established within the industry as a child actor and as I grew up and turned into a teenager there was less and less work.

I had no real education because I was in and out of schools so I decided that I would completely change my look, change my image, change my name and move to New York.

I thought I would keep the first name Susan and change the last name but I picked up this book and as I opened it the lead character in it was called Morgan Brittany.

I can meet any producer in Hollywood and look them in the eye, knowing I didn't sleep with them, or do drugs with them.

I feel bad about a lot of the movies I see that teach kids that if they do bad, they'll win.

You've got to hang on to who you are, what you are. Don't let anyone take it from you.

Drugs won't enhance your performance.

Playing third base, you rarely have time to get into a great fielding position. It's all about reaction.

I hope I can always be counted on to get a hit or get a guy in-to be an even keel in the lineup.

I love a hard-hit ball, a diving-play situation where you realize afterward there was no thinking involved. It was 100 percent reaction.

The College World Series, that's the end-all deal as a college player. To get a chance to play in the World Series and win it, that was surreal.

I've always been counted out. I've always had people believing I didn't belong. I think that has made me work a little harder.

I'm not worrying about my mechanics-and that's a fun feeling. It's nice to be confident and not worry about where my hands and feet are.

I don't know if people know how hard it is to get a hit or how hard it is to field a ground ball. It's an easy game in principal, but to actually execute the game it's very difficult.

If I go 500 at-bats and hit 10 home runs, then something's wrong.

I was a little fat pudgy kid with big thick glasses, and I was quiet and never said a word, you know -- teachers loved me, straight-A student.

I think you take a job, you owe it as much passion as the job itself demands. And most jobs demand that you be totally committed.

The better the actor, usually the safer you feel working with.

I think one of the things when you're casting children is you're also casting their parents.

Every job's a challenge. The challenge is to do it and make it look right, like you belong there - wherever that is.

I don't do cold. My reaction to cold is drastic. I'm a southern boy.

Give me something interesting to play and I'm happy.