J.R. Stewart Quotes

I really don't think about my career, in terms of planning it out and what any role does for me.

I have really bad luck with my thumbs. It plagues me, actually. It drives me crazy! Both of them are very oddly shaped.

I heard Dennis Kucinich say in a debate, 'When I'm president... and I just wanted to stop him and say, 'Dude.'

Sure, 'Twilight' is really huge right now and everybody's freaking out over it, but it will go away soon and I will be back to doing what I'm used to doing: weird little movies that nobody sees.

Intelligence becomes an asset when some useful order is created out of free-floating brainpower.

It's not really a good sign when your audience applauds Satan.

My mom was a professional fitness competitor, so I go into the gym with her. I train with my dad and mother. It's embarrassing, because she's really strong.

I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor.

The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try

The bias of the mainstream media is toward sensationalism, conflict, and laziness.

Men go and come, but earth abides.

The happiest she'd ever been was with him, and the saddest. Was that the true test of love?

Doing stand-up comedy is in the middle of a traffic jam getting everybody moving again.

It only takes for one person to remind you that you are special, and then your whole life is changed.

They stared out their window at night enough to know where the darkest shadows lay, and it was to the darkest shadows they kept.

Milligan! Come and tell us why you're so dreadfully glum!" ~ Constance, The Mysterious Benedict Society

Good grief! They're going to call us inside soon, and Sticky hasn't even met Madge yet!" "Who's Madge?" Sticky asked. "Her Majesty the Queen!

You are the smartest children i know. You just don't beleive it.

If we're just trying to be accurate, then how about 'The Doomed to Fail Bunch'?" said Constance. "Honestly! We can't even name ourselves.

If you smell something, say something.

All I try to do in the press is to be honest about something that I really care about.

Once you have done with school, you realise that it is just a smaller version of life, and really I have felt that I should have been an adult since I was aged about five.

I know that people's judgments are fast, and in a split second I will ruin it.

A lot of actors think that what we do is so important, like we're saving people's lives or something.

People say, 'Just say who you're dating. Then people will stop being so ravenous about it.' It's like, 'No they won't! They'll ask for specifics.'

Why would I want anything that's private to become entertainment for other people?

I'm obsessed with my cat. We have a really strong, really weird codependent, almost Bella/Edward relationship. I'm going to be a crazy cat lady one day, I'm sure.

I still do not understand how a corporation can have person-hood if it has no soul and never dies.

It doesn't matter if you're doing a studio movie or you're doing an independent movie. When you get to set and you're doing a scene, it's always going to be the same job.

Here's what I realized about the yam - it's the same colour as a Nerf ball. You may be wondering: 'Is he saying he ate a Nerf ball?'.

For most actors, it's such a struggle to get work. Once they have it, they feel that there's an enormous amount of pressure on them to make it work, and have everyone love them.

In companies whose wealth is intellectual capital, networks, rather than hierarchies, are the right organizational design.

The worst thing you can do, despite the innumerable obstacles we confront, is to not try.

In our researches on the likely economic apocalypse it's become clear what is the prime survival tool for hard times: friends. Good friends. Lots of them.

The outward expression of empathy is courtesy.

I just think the game of golf teaches you so much about yourself like who you really are and what you're made of.

What are you so mad about? That we still have a government? We still have “traffic lights.” We’re sorry. The government’s not perfect, but some people wish it was better, not gone.

I'm very much to blame for not seeing it before, but who on earth goes about suspecting an impossible outlandish thing like murder? That's something that happens in books, not among people you know.

I have become increasingly unnerved by the depth of corruption that exists at many different levels. I'm less upset with politicians than [with] the media.

Curiosity about the world and questioning of the status quo to open minds to alternative visions of the future are essential leadership skills. And they can be learned.

The sense of smell is the hair-trigger of memory.

I don't trust any country that looks around a continent and says, "Hey, I'll take the frozen part."

The act of envisioning is mainly useful as a means for identifying what matters most to you now.

I think the main thing that has to end is men's defensiveness.

The government should stop meddling in the business of the farmers, who would actually still be living ina desert if not for government meddling.

Death is much simpler than birth; it is merely a continuation. Birth is the mystery, not death.

Poor people have sh*tty lobbyists.

In the new organisation, power flows from expertise, not position.

I sometimes think it's a mistake to have been happy when one was a child. One should always want to go on, not back.

Nobody out-rednecks the great state of America.