Tim Quotes

If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative.

I will always be there in the wings saying, 'You need to be good to people. You need to take your work seriously. You need to have integrity. You need to work with what you've got.

You can’t propose that something be a universal space and at the same time keep control of it.

I love acting, but it's all just a bonus.

Being a student in an art & design school, that was the moment for me, that was when I began to develop a lot of self-confidence and really come into my own.

I'm going to try to fit in where I can and play the way I can.

In a manner of speaking. I certainly never want to lose my voice as an educator.

I'm much more of a Leo than I am a Cancer.

I know I'm the guy others will lean on.

It was very challenging to mentor the mentors, and yes, you do see more sides of my personality.

Whether it's fashion or it's home, it's all about style. The clothes we wear send a message about how we are perceived, and our home does the same thing.

My manners also came from when I was in college and began participating in critiques. You have to speak with someone respectfully about their work and be honest and open, without hurting them.

I'm six foot four and a half and I have a temper. It's reserved for very important issues. If someone is asking me to make an artistic concession, then I'll become a madman.

There are dumb actors. But there are dumb politicians and dumb bakers.

I've been lucky-my looks haven't put me into one category. I don't look like a blue blood. I don't look like a criminal. I don't look like anything.

Our motto is just to play the whole 48 minutes. We are here to play it from start to finish. Things will go up and down. We will make runs and they will make runs. But we just keep playing.

You had to know how to fight or you had to know how to avoid a fight. I didn't enjoy fighting, so I learned how to avoid them.

I know the world that I am painting is not a reality. It is a whim, an entertainment to provoke something in people, whether as escapism or relief. I think that is very valid.

I'm just going to play whatever game is in front of me.

You have to raise the bar. Give yourself a challenge. Ask yourself, 'How can one make the impossible materialise?'

People get out of music what they want to get out of it, and all I try to do is do the same thing.

A child knows when they are on the receiving end of a didactic exercise, or when they are sitting in the shadow of something else.

Do Not Disturb signs should be written in the language of the hotel maids.

And almost half of American oil consumption is for motor vehicles.

While awaiting sentencing, I decided to give stand-up comedy a shot. The judge had suggested I get my act together, and I took him seriously.

Dogs will eat till they die. Cats will leave food in the dish, incomprehensible to a dog.

The Author is a play about responsibility, how active we are as spectators and how responsible we are for what we choose to look at.

Acts of anti-Semitism in countries throughout the world, including some of the world's strongest democracies, have increased significantly in frequency and scope over the last several years.

Jill : What causes sibling rivalry? Tim : Having more than one kid!

You don't know what people are really like until they're under a lot of stress.

Men often do things for women that they don't want to do, so that women will do things for men that they don't want to do.

Can we take a direct flight back to reality or do we have to change planes in Denver?

A mother's example sketches the outline of her child's character.

I wanted to be a soccer player; I wanted to do it at the highest level.

What happened, and what might have happened?

I'm not dead. But when I am, it's likeI don't know, I guess it's like being inside a book that nobody's reading.

Storytelling is the essential human activity. The harder the situation, the more essential it is.

A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.

What sticks to memory, often, are those odd little fragments that have no beginning and no end.

Everyone acts stupid at some time in order to be loved.

The world shrieks and sinks talons into our hearts. This we call memory.

But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the world.

When your afraid,reallyafraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world.

You have to make a decision. You have to believe. Once you start doubting, you change your brain chemistry and you're done.

No great president in the USA has been primarily a me-first person.

I've never been arrested. I've been stopped, searched and had a gun put to my head by the Chicago cops.

The job of a legislator is much more fixing existing law, revising it, improving it, than it is passing something that doesn't exist.

I love producing. I have been producing some acts and starting a label.

Five years ago I figured we were at the top of our game and that was the best it was going to get, but with every album it seems to keep on building on itself.

I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can.