K.A. Tucker Quotes

I have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to.

Comedy comes from a place of hurt. Charlie Chaplin was starving and broke in London, and that's where he got his character 'the tramp' from. It's a bad situation that he transformed into comedic one.

A lot of lines in movies were written, but I'm always improvising. Once you get into the scene, it just comes to me.

You see people waving. You dont see people having problems, with each other at least.

But the main thing is that medication, too, is not all the help.

What people who don't create don't understand, is that once you take money from the machine, the machine [movie industry] owns you.

I'm never going to be Tolstoy.

If your parents ignored you, or if they are just not emotionally available, or if they yell a lot, that is a type of trauma.

The vast majority of all consequences, especially in 21st century America, are completely meaningless bullshit.

You know that look a cop gives you when he's so confused that he doesn't even know how to respond? If you don't know that look, it means you haven't had enough fun in your life.

The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.

Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital.

The meaning of life is to create meaning for your life.

The economic base of that rural Oregon area used to be manufacturing and logging. And that went away and they feel nobody has been speaking to them and finally Donald Trump has spoken to them.

It's hard to be ambitious if you're content, isn't it?

American officials have bent over backwards to show how sensitive they are to Muslim culture. It didn't seem very effective. They seem to be worried about winning the respect of other people.

I mean, look, no matter how you feel about Bush, watching him speak is difficult. It's like- it's like watching a drunk man cross an icy street.

What inspires me in life? The idea that the work and the rewards and the process is the thing.

Most of my success, I feel, comes from being a good editor as opposed to a great writer.

Hey man, can you talk to dolphins and pilot whales with that huge forehead of yours?

We live on a 500-acre ranch, beautiful ranch.

When I was a kid my Dad never let me sing Patsy Cline songs for one simple reason: they've already been done.

By the time I get done with my fans and my music and my kids and my family and my fiance and my horses, well, they suffer too, but, I don't really have much time left to do anything else.

The best thing is being able to perform in front of people and to express my feelings, whatever they may be at the time. Just to be able to make the world a happier place to be.

I have an unending desire to be better and make myself a better person, better mother.

You got to control your own destiny. You got to keep writin different stuff. Keep switchin up and never do the same thin too many times.

The haters always scream the loudest.

I think my life is a movie and your life reflects your work.

No one has probably helped me more with my narcissism than my dog.

We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.

All art requires courage.

Yes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions, but everyone forgets the second half of that quote: the road to heaven is paved with good actions.

Therefore coercion of the non-invasive, when justifiable at all, is to be justified on the ground that it secures, not a minimum of ' invasion, but a minimum of pain.

Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism

If I can go through life free and rich, I shall not cry because my neighbor, equally free, is richer. Liberty will ultimately make all men rich; it will not make all men equally rich.

[T]he State . . . gives idle capital the power of increase, and, through interest, rent, profit, and taxes, robs industrious labor of its products.

When you change from being a part of the problem to being a part of the solution, allow somebody that.

Warden Baggett, thank you so much. You have been so good to me. I love all of you very much. I will see you all when you get there. I will wait for you.

First, then, State Socialism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by the government, regardless of individual choice.

Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.

I wanted to cut down on the profanity, because I think I'm funnier without sayin' a lot of cuss words.

I couldn't imagine not having clean water.

No matter how much proponents of 'intelligent design' try to clothe their views in the apparel of science, it is what it is: religion. Whose intelligence? Whose design?

I've actually tried to give Brett Ratner dance lessons, but he thinks he already knows how to.

What!? You tell people that, I won't get no more black movies?

You don't know who you messing with man, I slap people for fun. That's what I do man! You wanna play rough, huh, I kill for fun!

And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory.

Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be.

The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction.

That great philosopher anonymous once said, never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.