Joe Quotes

You must relate athletic experiences to life.

If I’m as normal as I think I am, we’re all a bunch of weirdos.

Do not kill ants. They are your best friends.

As a member of a competitive team, you want to make sure you have yourself ready to play. You don't control anything but what you do.

The greatest leading man, in my opinion, will always be Cary Grant.

I don't like directors that just say, Stand there and now do this.

I never refused autograph seekers, unless they were old enough to look like collection agents.

What the hell did I do in the 80's? Midnight Run. A perfect movie. Just a perfect movie.

You'll never see me in the red leather. I don't have the chin for it.

Jesus Christ. If he can play, I got to play, too.

The art of living is simply getting up after you've been knocked down.

If I was going to do Fall Out Boy, I wanted it to be a real outlet for my writing.

It's not a crime to get drunk.

A band isn't a band unless they're playing together. Otherwise it's just five guys that are living off their royalty checks.

Who owns the NY Post? 20th Century Fox. Talk about vertical integration.

Shirts don't grow on trees.

People love to see people fall.

What I envisioned to see was a group of guys drinking beer.

One of the most powerful energies you can ever experience is gratitude.

Most of my bits are long stream-of-consciousness- type things, and when I'm doing them onstage, other places to take the theme or idea will hit me, and I just go with it.

Osama bin Laden is dead, and General Motors is alive.

Getting fired is what happens to a manager sooner or later.

If you expect miracles in your life, then release any attachment to the outcome.

Being a celebrity or anything else where you're really ambitious, it's really a game to see how successful you can get.

I support immediate financial assistance to the newly elected Palestinian president. Now, I don't know what those numbers will be, and I don't know how it's going to be framed.

I really never had any ambitions to be a standup comic. I was talked into it by guys that I used to work out with.

It's all about people. It's all about the subjectivity of what people love.

If you aren't happy with yourself, find a way to be victorious over yourself.

What are you grateful for right now? Gratitude can shift your energy, raise your vibration, and make all your next moments even better.

Ask yourself what you would do even if you were never paid. That’s a clue to what you should be doing and of course finding a way to be paid for it.

You can have, be or do, anything you want.

Good actors are a dime a dozen, but I want actors that are gonna be part of my team and collaborative.

You have all these people in the press who are ringing their hands over fake news stories. That actually became the narratives for critics.

I couldn't do anything I didn't enjoy.

A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators.

I think I have broken into the mainstream, and I think that may happen in a broader way, but I want to do it on my own terms, not become a standard producer.

Like our title song “Clap”, I want to become a singer that receive the applause from all people.

I have finally become my own genre, and now that's what publishers want. I have a wonderful publisher now, Mulholland, very innovated, very fine people working there.

There are details within details within details to anchor you in the fact that we are talking about the real world, not an illustrated children's book fantasy world.

I can only think of a handful of artists that can make a funny painting or a funny sculpture without it feeling coined in someway.

People who prefer e-books...think that books merely take up space. This is true, but so do your children and Prague and the Sistine Chapel.

If you are the greatest, why would you go around talking about it?

If someone plays a brooding actor in a film, people think they're brooding all the time.

Today they have proven once again that the mainstream media can't print enough bad news about our troops.

I drew a picture on the back of a calendar in pencil. In those days they used to give out free calendars, I had no art paper, so I took whatever else I could.

Every life, even the best ones, ends in sadness. Books hold out hope that things may end otherwise.

I never argue with people who say baseball is boring, because baseball is boring. And then, suddenly, it isn't. And that's what makes it great.

I'm going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes.

This is a big f...ing deal!

I vividly remember bowling 20 + games a day, 2 or 3 times a week.