R. A. Rooney Quotes

I have one of those real old American built cars. The kind that just PUNCHES through accidents.

I buy women shoes and they use them to walk away from me.

The audience and I are friends. They allowed me to grow up with them. I've let them down several times. They've let me down several times. But we're all family.

God bless the universe, God bless Japanese, Chinese, Indians, all of them and let's have peace.

There's only so many movies you can do. I start to get really self-loathing and sick of myself. And I think in order to act, you need to live a little bit to fill yourself with experience.

My sister started acting professionally when she was twelve, but I wanted to go to college first

When you're an actor on set, people treat you like a giant baby. They don't let you do anything. Like, "Do you need any food? Do you need the bathroom?"

When I was younger, I used to visualise myself scoring wonder goals, stuff like that.

I am not the first player to have sworn on TV and I won't be the last.

I am mentally strong.

I'm not really that bothered by appearance. I know a few players who go off doing stuff in the mirror ages before they go out to play a game, but I'm not really interested in that.

I think the fans are going to expect a lot from me, as they should.

Don't call me a Postmodern!

Democrats believe people are basically good but must be saved from themselves by the government. Republicans believe people are basically bad but they'll be okay if they're left alone.

Those of us who don't have a party affiliation ought to be able to register under the heading "Confused.

Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he's written that can't be read aloud easily.

One of the sweetest things in life: a letter from a friend.

All economists should be locked up until they admit that they don't know what they're talking about.

Conservatives are more religious than liberals--although there is no evidence that they're nicer people because of it.

A cat's idea of a 'good time' is to kill something.

Don't you hate it when...your suitcase is the last one off the airplane?

It isn't working that's so hard, it's getting ready to work.

I'm always on the lookout for something good about people. Often months go by.

Believing is such a comfort that it's hard to give up a belief just because it isn't true.

The great virtue of being alone is that your mind can go its own way.

No one ever writes a book in which he is the bad guy.

My most serious character flaw is that I don't deny myself much.

... all of us talk faster than we listen.

In a conversation, keep in mind that you're more interested in what you have to say than anyone else is.

Creativity is a by-product of hard work. If I never have another really new idea, it won't matter.

Great teachers are usually a little crazy.

I've learned... That I wish I could have told my Mom that I love her one more time before she passed away.

It's ridiculous for a country to get all worked up about a game—except the Super Bowl, of course. Now that's important.

It's best to give advice in only two circumstances; when it's requested, and when it's a life threatening situation.

It's not so much that I write well, I just don't write badly very often and that passes for good on television.

By the time they're ready to be thrown away, most shoes are thoroughly comfortable

Person-to-person, most people are honest.

One of my major shortcomings - I'm vindictive. I don't know why that is. Even in petty things in my life I tend to strike back. It's a lot more pleasurable a sensation than feeling threatened.

Numbers tend to give the impression that there's more order in the world than there is.

Milk without fat is like nonalcoholic Scotch.

I never understood retirement. What is the attraction of retirement? I go down there to Florida and look around and I said, my God, who wants this? Not me.

I spent my first 50 years trying to become known as a writer and the next 30 trying to avoid being famous. I walk down the street or go to a football game and people shout, 'Hey Andy'. I hate that.

Ugly is very popular this year...I had a feeling these clothes were deigned by someone who didn't like women.

Let's make a statement to the airlines just to get their attention. We'll pick a week next year and we'll all agree not to go anywhere for seven days.

I never get over feeling bad about tearing open a beautifully wrapped present. It takes ten seconds to destroy a work of art that took someone ten minutes to accomplish.

We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones.

My advice is not to wait to be struck by an idea. If you're a writer, you sit down and damn well decide to have an idea. That's the way to get an idea.

It is possible to be dumb and be a college president.

I don't pick subjects as much as they pick me.

The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians.