Seán O'Casey Quotes
As a guiding principle, life shrinks and life expands in direct proportion to your willingness to assume risk.
If the reason why you're doing anything creative is to make a living, then you're doing it wrong
Every time I took these bigger risks, the opportunity for a bigger payout was always there.
We must be faithful to the present moment or we will frustrate the plan of God for our lives.
They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games.
Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues -- communicating with an audience.
We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the US public believes is false.
I was drafted and went to Korea where I had an opportunity to create a production team that did dramatic and comedy shows. I had also done a little disc jockeying.
What does it matter where we go? Wherever we go, won't we be serving God there? And wherever we go, won't we have Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament with us? Isn't that enough to make us happy?
The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies...that which to us is merely an evening's meal, but to them is life itself.
Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful.
When I was a freshman in high school, my drama teacher, an incredible, inspirational genius, the guy who got me into acting, he encouraged me to get the lead in a musical. They didn't have any guys.
The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.
See that fella over there? He's 20 years old. In 10 years, he's got a chance to be a star. Now that fella over there, he's 20 years old, too. In 10 years he's got a chance to be 30.
When people ask me why I don't eat meat or any other animal products, I say, 'Because they are unhealthy and they are the product of a violent and inhumane industry.'
When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
The only science that gives purpose to every other science is the science of religion - the science of our happy relationship with, and our providential dependence on God and our neighbor.
It would be a really beautiful thing if we could all just wear what we wanted, without it meaning something.
A 1990 Gallup poll found that 77 percent of Americans polled said abortion was the taking of human life. I agree, and believe that taking the life on an innocent child is unjust.
Well, that's baseball. Rags to riches one day and riches to rags the next. But I've been in it 36 years and I'm used to it.
Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain.
I went to drama school at NYU for serious acting. So I was doing Chekov and Sam Shepard plays.
No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.
The thought of how far the human race would have advanced without government simply staggers the imagination.
Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly being renewed.
Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.