J. R. Todd Quotes

I stand up for the things I believe in.

Anybody who knows something about the history of the human race knows that there is no civilization which has condoned homosexual marriage widely and openly that has long survived.

I don't ban bloggers from my shows. I have a separate line: VIP seating for bloggers.

I mean, I've always had scattered interests, but I never went on stage to get an agent or anything like that

And the goal really is to make the audience laugh, to bring them some joy.

I haven't done a lot in London. I think comedy over there is how it was over here years ago. There's tons of it, and they're better paid.

I will not be misquoted!

I want to release another CD this year, finish writing a screenplay, and make another short film

There seems to be more comedy for comedy's sake

I had temping jobs also. I liked the flexibility. There was no asking for time off; you just didn't work.

I have a podiatrist appointment at 2.

I must have done everything I had. You go through years where you go through everything you've ever written

I was probably just trying to be Dennis Miller, but without the vocabulary to actually be Dennis Miller. I guess I was just less interesting than I am now, if I am interesting at all

Only lately, like within the last few years, have I had people actually do an impression of me to me, which weirds me out to think of what they have picked up on, without ever realizing it myself

I did end up doing substitute teaching, but there's not a lot of teaching involved in that.

It's cool to go to a place that has posters up and it's one night only. It feels more special.

You've got to get your eyes around and see what's coming in your face.

You don't need to manage the clock when you score in one play.

Children need explanations and they deserve explanations.

What I do with my kids is I tell them I love them every day, but also I tell them the truth.

Sometimes laughter is the only way to process tough times

The Bible's been attacked. What is truth? It's relative.

I'd once heard a spiritual "riddle" that went like this: "What's the only thingin heaven that's the same as it was on earth?"The answer: the wounds in Jesus' hands and feet.

I'm just impressed when someone can capture all the crazy beauty of the light that is all around us. It's amazing to me. I don't consider myself a photographer, but I really want to get into it.

All reluctance is a lack of confidence.

You're listening to [the songs on Random Access Memories] and they're future classics. They've brought the sound of something that's been lost for a long time.

Love the vocal on Lightning. Overall great EP. We Sink is a favorite as well.

You could spend the rest of your life trying to outlive the scars that are left by what you go through in your formative years.

It's wild how chefs have become like rock stars.

We really did it write it for the story but once you get into production, once you start doing this process certain things will jump out at you. Some shots will be more 3-D than others.

I think that's coming just like anything else. I don't think that it's just going to be 3-D. I think that 2-D is going to be around forever. I think that we'll go back and forth.

Rich countries don't need as many children. We used to need kids to work in the fields as farm hands, to crawl on their bellies into coal mines. Well, kids are more like luxury objects now.

You need somebody to support the retirees. You need to pay into the pension plans. You need people to work at the hospitals, at the nursing homes.

It's a good thing we have immigrant doctors and immigrant engineers, because if you or I get sick this afternoon, we're going to go to the hospital, and we're going to hope someone serves us.

You know, throughout the world, throughout history, when countries get rich, they stop having kids.

If you have waves of immigration, you better figure out a way to turn those immigrants into red-blooded Americans, or else you end up splintering the society.

We're prosperous enough that we can afford to have one in six able-bodied men of working age sitting at home playing video games.

America is not just 'a nation with the soul of a church,' as G.K. Chesterton wrote in 1992: it is a nation with the mind of a crusade

If the Bible is a creation myth, it is an amorphous confusing one

Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don’t.

I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society.

All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best.

My position is not that John Kerry is either Jesus Christ or the prophet Mohammad. My position is that John Kerry is the possibility of restarting politics.

Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience.

Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.

He's got himself, and he's got a beard. That's all Chris Jericho needs.

Here's the irony of this moment on Smackdown: Jimmy crack corn and I DO care.

I would comment on the scene, but I've never kissed a woman so I don't really have anything to add.

I have always had an interest in performers who play against the most obvious of expectations and are able to find something secret, something withheld, and some level of restraint.

The Johnny Depp generation has this kind of brooding, weighty, introspective quality, very James Deanish. Which is nice, great for a lot of characters.