Mo Johnston Quotes

I've come to believe that every one who reaches the best that life holds for him reaches it through some Desert of Waiting.

When I was writing songs, I always thought I'd make more of a career out of the drawings, the comics even more than the music.

The dinosaurs's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.

Maybe it's every kid's dream to go into a pod and come out looking like Captain America. And you don't even have to exercise or lift weights! It's great!

I literally felt like a freak, which is another aspect of the role of Sally that I relate to: total outsider.

My way was not to be the petite, gorgeous, little cheerleader. My way of getting by was making people laugh.

I am, uh ... a 6 foot tall woman, I feel like I'm a healthy size, I'm not anorexic; and I feel that people who aren't anorexic are punished ... for not being anorexic.

Never tell anyone that you're writing a book, going on a diet, exercising, taking a course, or quitting smoking. They'll encourage you to death.

You have to be in love with your story ... It's the love of the light; the time of day; of watching the moment unravel.

You do not have to die to save their lives.

I know it sounds crazy, but I have had far more connection with my parents after their deaths.

But even though all this was going on at home, if someone had tried to take me away and put me in a children's home, I couldn't have handled it. Even though my mother was very brutal, it was my home.

The shapes and markings of Felix and Mickey, perhaps more than Oswald, have similarities, but when you are using such simple basic construction (i.e. circles) there is bound to be such duplication.

If you cannot say what you mean, your majesty, you will never mean what you say and a gentleman should always mean what he says.

Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church.

I have to be by myself when I write, and I never know how long it will take. It is like making butter. Sometimes it will come in a few minutes, and sometimes I have to churn away for hours.

Remember, men need laughter sometimes more than food.

Like skateboarders, writers live by rejection; like writers, any skater worth his salt must have the single-minded tenacity of a wiener dog.

The main thing I do now is I coach kids, and all of these stories along the way are based in reality.

Movies are immortal art - the first new art since Greek drama.

I'm a snake oil salesman as much as anyone else, but I try to keep something for myself.

Passivity is the dragon every woman has to murder in her quest for independence.

I was a full foot taller than any child my age.

It's a very lonely place, being an addict.

I was such a dork. I was too big. I was really gangly.

I was voted Biggest Ham and Likeliest to Become a Celebrity.

Every time I "get with the program"... somebody changes the channel.

I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written by you. It's up to you to write the ending, ultimately.

The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!

Memories and magic is what Christmas is all about.

Its taken me a long time to become the person I am, for all the ugliness to fall away. The rotten flesh is gone, and the seed is there. I can touch that now.

Sure, I've had some bad times, but everybody does. But people don't get to talk about them like I do, unless they do to a therapist. People don't get to put them in the paper like I do.

The past was a bridge that looked solid and sturdy, but once you were on it, you saw that it extended only far enough to strand you, to suspend you between loss and longing with nowhere to go at all.

Stories aren’t about things. Stories are things.

You know, I was crap. But I had the commitment, and I had the understanding, that the basis of football is skill on the ball, and if you spend the time with it, you're gonna reap the rewards.

OK, the wonderful thing about soccer is, a football is a perfectly round object, and it doesn't make mistakes. The player using it makes mistakes. And the more you use it, the less mistakes you make.

I'd love to make a sequel to 'The Rocketeer.' The film didn't do as well at the box office as we all hoped, but it has endured and generated a following.

I'm not going to take a show unless I'm not sure I can do it. You have to have that sort of adrenaline.

I was just so lucky to have a wonderful life after a tough marriage.

Being a [bank] director is like being a pilot of an aircraft - it's years of boredom and seconds of terror.

She flew like a bird, only faster.

Stories aren't about things. Stories are things. Stories aren't about actions. Stories are, unto themselves, actions.

Men do not invent Myths. They only invent fables, and tell lies. True Myths create themselves, and find their expression in the men who serve their purpose.

I've always just gone with the best role, and I don't care if it's in theater, film or television.

I sucked in the smell of her perfume, Viva La Juicy, and was swept away. La Juicy was part of my oxygen supply, even for the year and a half we were apart.

I often think you bring unhappiness on yourself, because if you don't like yourself very much, you allow yourself to be influenced by people who reinforce that.

When you're shy, a camera becomes an entry into life. It was a kind of shield I could hide my shyness behind, and it allowed me to become an active observer rather than a passive one.

I'm not just buying a car... I'm buying a lifestyle!

Don't animate drawings, animate feelings.

The trouble with most people is they think there's only one right way to do anything.