The Grey Quotes

My goal is to be myself, and to challenge stereotypes, and to follow the rules, and break them, and make new rules. It's not about doing something that's already been done. That would be silly.

Honestly, I look at the project and I look at the people attached and I look at the director. If it's a role that I feel will help me, as an actor, then I'll definitely take it.

My body is my art, and it's also the tool that I use to make money.

Whether that's an action film or a comedy or a drama or anything in between, I'm willing to prove that I can play with the big boys.

I guess I've always been attracted to secret societies and the mystery surrounding them.

I wasn't that kid where if you told me 'No,' I was just going to do it anyway.

I'm not 18 anymore, so I'm not into starting unnecessary beefs. It's tacky.

Adam Larey gazed with hard and wondering eyes down the silent current of the red river upon which he meant to drift away into the desert

Where I was raised a woman's word was law. I ain't quite outgrowed that yet.

We born dyin'...But you ask a man an' he talk like he gonna live forevah.

The best plans are always the simplest.

For the sake of my country, and perhaps a little for the sake of my soul, I have given up the deep peace of being in opposition.

Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.

I'm not one to sit here and judge here. But I think it's funny that the people that condemn the adult industry the most are the ones consuming the product the most.

Nations are always making mistakes because they do not understand each other's psychology.

The internal peace of every country depends upon the knowledge that force is available to uphold law.

I will always support legalization of the entheogens, which are, without a doubt, the most important and the most grossly misunderstood medicines on earth.

It was 1975. I had spent the year at the Boston Museum School doing some very bizarre performance works. The last one included going to the North Magnetic Pole and spending all of my money.

I dont often meet people who want to suffer cardiovascular disease or whatever, and we get those things as a result of the lifelong accumulation of various types of molecular and cellular damage.

I'm the chief science officer of a foundation that works on the application of regenerative medicine to the problem of aging.

In the eye, there is a type of junk that accumulates in the back of the retina that eventually causes us to go blind. It's called age-related macular degeneration.

Most scientists will get serious media exposure about twice in their entire career. And they'll get that because they've actually done an experiment that was interesting.

I don't lack confidence. I don't sweat. I don't want to get too Zen on you, but I have to run my own race.

When you make content, you try things, and they don't always work. You learn from it and figure out what's next.

Any time there is a lot of money or ego involved, people tend to behave badly.

I can only say that in life when you have the greatest expectations and you try to do things the right way, it doesn't always work out.

I dont really enjoy watching reality TV.

I just try to work with what I'm given and make it the best I can.

I don't remember ever not knowing about acting.

I don't think any actor can be happy with their performance. There's always something you wish you would have done or said differently.

If I only concentrated on one thing, I would limit myself in life.

The day I feel like I'm at an office job is the day I'll quit performing in front of a camera.

When I'm on an adult set and I'm in a scene, I am myself. I'm not acting. I am playing to the camera, definitely, but I am myself.

Footage of young people getting shot. That bothers me. It hits a nerve.

My goals are to continue acting and also to produce some independent films in the next few years. Music is a passion of mine, so I also want to continue along that path, creating with my friends.

Since I started making music, it had always been for myself.

The best songs for me come from the search for joy. You're in a negative place maybe, but you're still striving to improve yourself and find happiness.

I realize that I really have to make music work for me as a career because I can't do anything else.

I'm a shy person, so I get really nervous going into interviews.

I moved out to L.A. when I was 17, dropped out of high school, and pursued a career in music.

I feel like D.C. is one of the places in America that really holds on to history. The monuments inspire me, especially at night.

Alex [Da Kid] does have diversity, not just in what he produces, but what he hears. He has this knack for finding talented people.

I played trumpet in school once because I joined band because a cute boy played trumpet too. And I was really bad at trumpet.

Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.

I love my work but do not know how I write it.

Jealously was an unjust and stifling thing.

I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.

The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.

There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.

I did not have one bad spell during writing - an unprecedented record.