R.J. Newman Quotes

Where good and ill together blent, Wage an undying strife.

Man is emphatically self-made.

People keep comparing me to people, and I just ignore it.

I don't want to date celebrities, I don't want to roll out of clubs absolutely steaming, make an idiot out of myself. I want to concentrate on my music career.

If I'm not busy I start twiddling my thumbs.

Doctors can predict these things [tumors] just as long as they get access to people.

Now I've got that [life is a journey not a destination] tattooed on my arm because it just reminds me of that time, and I think it's just an amazing quote.

I went and studied music in Leeds. It really woke me up socially, to stop being so naïve and narrow-minded.

I'm still quite small-minded and small-town, and people look at me like, "You're too famous to remember me." I want to give them a tap on the shoulder and thank them.

I do like expressing how I feel about things in my music.

I'm from a little town called Settle in North Yorkshire, so it's amazing that I get to travel everyday and I get to see such crazy sh*t everyday.

I don't get pictures taken of me when I leave clubs.

All good art is abstract.

You're Beautiful! (Pass it on).

If you don't love all the Star Wars movies, you're not a true fan.

I've managed to create intimacy with people I know, and people that I don't know. The longer things stay inside of us, the more we think they are black or tainted, but they're really not.

If you want to write in a mature and interesting way, you have to have sympathy for everyone that's involved.

You see things really different when your father is so intimately, so indisputably in charge of your continued existence on the planet.

When I was growing up, there were no cell phones and no roads into the bush, and so if something happened to your plane, that was serious. Nobody was coming to rescue you.

There's a kind of intimacy that happens between a mother and an only child. Which only gets more intimate when it's between a mother and only daughter.

I'm pretty much of the Shakespearean school. Dialogue is character. How we speak is who we are.

My mom was a social worker. I had a pretty good idea of what the authorities can do when a parent's not around.

I was an only child. And it's very much my temperament. I remember playing with a piece of string in my room for hours. I had never thought about what it would be like to have siblings.

I don't think many kids question their surroundings. Everything seems so permanent and inevitable growing up, even chaos.

There was always some germ of joy, some little paramecium of happiness wriggling around, waiting for a chance to get out.

It feels like people talk a lot, in their relationships and in therapy. But my family wasn't like that. My dad wasn't and I wasn't. Things were said, but via the language of action.

It's much harder when you're writing about your life, than when you're writing fiction.

My natural inclination is to think in scenes. So that's how I write, and the issue for me is usually: what to compress for speed.

My dad felt pretty strongly that I know about the basic workings of a plane and so he taught me how to read and set the instruments, as well as the basics of taking off and landing.

For some players, luck itself is an art

There are three rules for running a business; fortunately, we don't know any of them.

Our marriage works because we each carry clubs of equal weight and size.

There are a lot of drivers who can carry a car. It doesn't happen very often very successfully. I think it takes a certain amount of sensible bravery. It's no good to be brave and just keep crashing.

While progress should never come to a halt, there are many places it should never come to at all.

We all die, just a question of when.

There are many ingredients that go into making a film. It baffles me, what works and what doesn't.

I certainly never expected to be a professional actor. I never expected to be in movies. I thought I would probably become a teacher.

Almost everything I learned about being an actor came from those early years at the Actor's Studio.

I have an extraordinary attention span. I manage to juggle two or three different ideas at the same time, and that's probably, if I have a gift, that's probably the best gift that's given me.

Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.

Admit it. I'm the best you ever seen, Fats. I'm the best there is. And even if you beat me, I'm still the best.

I really just can't watch myself. I see all the machinery at work and it just drives me nuts.

It happens to everybody, horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.

Hollywood is a changing world these days. This is one of the things that ought to be changed.

[Getting the truth in the New York Post has been as] difficult as finding a good hamburger in Albania.

Once I started taking drama classes, I asked myself why I had ever wasted so much time on a football team.

No sense in being a grifter if it's the same as being a citizen.

The only way we can give our children the best education in the world and prepare them for the next century is by funding the programs that serve them.

I am convinced that a person is entitled to as much privacy as he wants. It should be his privilege to keep certain areas of his life out of the newspapers.

I wasn't driven to acting by any inner compulsion. I was running away from the sporting goods business.