SebastiAn Quotes

I have a bit of an obsession with the 1950's and all those actors from Montgomery Clift to James Dean and Anthony Perkins. Just that whole era of Tennessee Williams to Elia Kazan.

I remember my first test in F1. After five laps, I came back to the pits and tried to play it cool - 'Oh yeah, I'm fine, I'm on top of this' - but I was completely lost.

All these nice people saying I'm going to be world champion won't make me any faster, you have to believe it yourself.

I get psyched about coming onto a Broadway stage every night. it's very exciting. You develop a kind of gratefulness for it when you spend months trying to get a job.

Competing is exciting and winning is exhilarating, but the true prize will always be the self-knowledge and understanding that you have gained along the way.

Working out and working as an actor have gone hand in hand—I always feel more prepared if I know I have done a workout. It gives me confidence—and peace of mind.

I like to be lean and flexible. I'm not interested in gaining size.

Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations.

Our own choices might not be as good as those that are made for us.

If the boat started shaking, we stayed on course and didn't lose focus. That made the difference.

The nine inches right here; set it straight and you can beat anybody in the world.

Vision is a romantic thing. We have got into 'talent identification'. I am much more interested in passion - finding people who are really excited about doing something.

Sport is a universal language, building more bridges between people than anything else I can think of.

As a driver, your target is always to be with the most competitive team possible.

Maybe the ultimate wound is the one that makes you miss the war you got it in.

Qualifying is all about putting everything that you have and that the car has in one lap. It's like a rush, I really enjoy that.

The end-of-summer winds make people restless.

A woman is supposed to have curves like an old Bentley, not like some old bike.

Driving at high speed where safe and legal is part of my life. As well as a higher top speed I wanted even better stability in my FX and that meant work on the aerodynamics.

There are a few things that make me angry. Mostly things not going my way.

An adventure is a situation where the outcome is not entirely within your control. It is up to fate, in other words

I still get crazy once in a while, but just less crazy.

Simply racing a Formula 1 car is an achievement.

Because it strikes me there is something greater than judgement. I think it is called mercy.

I was obsessed with Jim Carrey growing up. It's why I wanted to become an actor.

Self-pity is the most destructive of all narcotics.

I am the man who put the hair in hair metal.

That is because at the close of the day the ship we sail in is the soul, not the body.

Once one has rejected faith, it will become impossible for him to enter the gates of Heaven.

But, what did happen is I went to Woodstock as a member of the audience. I did not show up there with a road manager and a couple of guitars. I showed up with a change of clothes and a toothbrush.

Tomorrow is another day, and there will be another battle!

I am not an intellectual. An intellectual is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso, whereas I just say 'pass the mustard'.

Teams like Ferrari, McLaren and Mercedes are going to be very, very motivated to go for the titles.

I'm German but I didn't say that. I have no moustache.

I mean, MTV or the mainstream media can tell you one thing, but when there are 40,000 people in front of you, who cares about all that?

There are some things that you can fulfil with money, but at the end of the day these are not the things that make you happy. It is the small things that make life good.

Inhale and hold the evening in your lungs.

The function of music is to liberate in the soul those feelings which normally we keep locked up in the heart.

My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them.

If you lived in Sheffield and were called Sebastian, you had to learn to run fast at a very early stage.

If anyone can achieve the impossible it’s you. Please, please, get it again.

What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve.

I don't care what other people think as long as I am happy. The day I die or retire, I have blown all my chances because I don't have the chance any more to change my image as an F1 driver.

No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not cause unnecessary suffering; it simply performs its job horrifyingly well.

World records are only borrowed.

I'm really looking forward to a time when generations after us look back and say how ridiculous it was that humans were driving cars.

War is a lot of things and it's useless to pretend that exciting isn't one of them. (pg. 144)

At the end of the day, the true value proposition of education is employment.

I became a great runner because if you're a kid in Leeds and your name is Sebastian you've got to become a great runner.

There is no singing anymore, everything is yelling and shouting and rapping and that is real boring to a guy like me.