K.A. Hill Quotes

I'm a different actor than you thought I was. Don't put me in a box. I'm not just some kid running around screaming curse words.

I realized I never played a character that was skilled at anything, or skilled at anything that I couldn't become skilled at.

I'm very, very attracted to morally ambiguous characters, not just pure bad guys or pure good guys.

I grew up with baseball; I played in Little League and went to games with my dad. But I, as I grew up, became more of a basketball fanatic than a baseball one.

One of the greatest moments of my career was on the road promoting 'Superbad' with Michael Cera and Chris Mintz-Plasse. We were showing the movie at colleges.

It's just hard when you're someone who's like hurting a lot of people or deceiving people who trust you, not to bring some of that home with you or inside of you.

Maybe if you play somebody in a certain world people sometimes misinterpret that it's a support of that world or that occupation or something.

People are so funny. There's no winning with commenters or anonymous people. They'd be rude that I was overweight, and now they're rude that I'm healthy.

When you do your comedy and your drama, your acting style doesn't change. If it's a comedy, the situations and the characters might be a little funnier, but you're just trying to be honest.

Luckily with animation, they give you a lot more leeway than a live-action show.

I don't watch like Sci-fi or things like that, I'm always more like real life is so endlessly fascinating to me.

When I first met the world, basically, or introduced myself to people, I was in 'Superbad,' and I feel the same way I felt promoting 'Superbad' in an underdog style that I feel promoting 'Moneyball.'

I mostly like documentaries, so I always think things that happened in real life are so astounding that why would you make a movie about something fake.

I believe in collaboration. I think that is the most entertaining and effective way to write for me, personally.

When I look at interviews from when I was that age, I come off different than how I am because I've matured - and I've matured, become a man in front of the public eye.

21 Jump Street is great. I just made that, and produced it and was a writer on it. It's starring myself and Channing Tatum, and maybe some surprise guests.

I'm an actor, I'm not a comedian, I never was a comedian.

I'm a big hip hop fan.

I would never remake something that was like "The Godfather." Things that are truly important to me, I could never remake or reboot, or whatever.

I learn a lot from every director that I work with. I sit on set and watch them, every one.

I am a filmmaker fanatic. I have never been star-struck by an actor once in my entire life.

A whole generation was raised to learn about comedy from The Simpsons. To get to be in a booth with Homer and Marge and be in Springfield - it was unimaginable the emotions that I felt.

Stanley Kubrick made Shelly Duvall go crazy during 'The Shining.' It's like one of the best performances ever. Maybe he shouldn't have gone that far, but I love that movie.

It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world.

I think it's kind of strange when people talk about how hyped-up the movie is. It almost sets you up for a bigger fall.

I'm too judgmental of other people putting themselves out there in any way, I guess.

I mostly make R-rated movies. To make a movie that one day if I have kids or my nephews want t watch, I can show them without being put in prison. It would be really nice.

I'm sure a bunch of 15-year-old kids would way rather I do 'Superbad 2 than 'Moneyball.' But I would love to do movies like 'Superbad' and movies like 'Moneyball.'

I am passionate about making music that feeds the soul and brings people together.

I absolutely love being on stage. I live and breathe the stage, and nothing makes me happier, but to perform.

I love performing live, especially when I get in the zone. But the studio is really becoming a place I have grown to love.

Fighting cancer is my mission right now. The research and development of finding cures for this nasty disease is my passion.

I would tell people to enjoy the present moment and the journey rather than the outcome.

My creative process involves reading books and magazines, writing outside, and moving around a lot. I like to pace around when I'm writing songs.

It's always been my dream to be on the stage with my band, singing my music. That's always been, and always will be.

I don't feel like I ever really do get past the nervousness. I'm always nervous. Something about being nervous keeps you on the edge, and I've always felt like I worked better under pressure.

I've always been a perfectionist, so I always wanted to sound better than I did. But, that's a never-ending process. You always want to get better. There's always room to grow.

Music brings life to my soul.

I feel most alive when I'm singing along to old gospel music.

The reality is that in much of industrialized societies, we are completely addicted to comfort. We are a society of addicts.

Everyone is in the same situation, at different levels and in different places.

I try not to have a day pass where I don't read something from the Bible. It's like my sustenance to me.

I'm making music for other people to listen to for pleasure. And hopefully, later on maybe they'll listen to it and go, "That bass line, boy, did you hear the way those drums interacted with that?"

If I should fall asleep and death takes me away, Don't be surprised son, I wasn't put here to stay.

I have a problem with procrastination. I have a great deal of difficulty deciding what to wear. It's a woman thing.

I like a brother that cuts to the chase.

I tried to manipulate and control people, and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn't forgive others.

Whether Jew or Gentile, I rank top percentile...

I rarely listen to the music for the sheer pleasure. I'm listening for the tool, I'm listening for the instrument, I'm listening for the art.

We have to make sure the music and the message and the words and all the elements come through in our songs and every time we appear in public.