FastSaying

My early life had a lot to do with my origins as a writer, but I didn't get into doing any writing at all until I was about 35 years old.


Chris Crutcher

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 ye...
DAMON WAYANS, JR. I didn't plan to be a director until I was 35. For years I wanted to do anything but!
ALEXANDRA CASSAVETES My mum didn't really let me watch TV until I was about 5 years old.
DACRE MONTGOMERY I came from a family of incredible storytellers, but I didn't start writing children's books...
PATRICIA POLACCO I didn't dream about being a director. I didn't know I wanted to do something with film unti...
SPIKE LEE I was schooled at home, then didn't go to university because I married when I was 17. I didn'...
CAROLINA HERRERA I've had such a hard time with dyslexia my whole life. When I was a child, I didn't learn to...
CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY I didn't want to be behind a desk. I didn't want to do a normal job. I had made my mind up. ...
WILL POULTER I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.
SAM SHEPARD Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself ...
LUKE BRYAN In my first start-up, I didn't get any salary for four years, so I had to move back with my pare...
TRAVIS KALANICK I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 yea...
STANLEY KUBRICK I've always felt heroic about my life... As a child, I remember little girls in the playground m...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD I didn't start doing graffiti until two years after I got to New York. Jean Michel Basquiat was ...
KEITH HARING My mum died of leukemia when I was in high school - she lost her life at 40. It was very hard, and I...
CORY HARDRICT I was a weird teenager. My mother was actually worried because I didn't have any interest in dat...
KIESZA I do consider myself a Norwegian writer, or a Scandinavian writer, as my family tree reaches into bo...
PER PETTERSON As a child, I personally didn't really get to know any Jews. I was eight years old when the Nigh...
HELMUT KOHL I didn't get into the music business because somebody made me take piano lessons, you know. I go...
BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be in...
JACK PRELUTSKY At the time I was writing the second album, I was sitting home in my underwear all day every day; I ...
MAC DEMARCO I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise ...
DOLLY PARTON I was always an actor, starting in middle school. I was in all the plays and all that. But dancing d...
HARRY SHUM, JR. At the beginning of my career as a writer, I felt I knew nothing of Chinese culture. I was writing a...
AMY TAN I had a good upbringing, we didn't have any money, but there was a lot of love in my family.
DANNY DYER I didn't have any role models. I really thought I was doomed to this loveless, lonely life. I di...
BRYAN BATT I didn't knowingly meet a conservative until, to my shame, I was 60 years old and sat down and s...
DAVID MAMET I was raised in a dominantly Filipino family. I didn't know I was 'mixed' until I got ol...
VINCENT RODRIGUEZ III I was always in a big hurry to do everything. Before I was 20, I was married twice and had two kids....
CARLENE CARTER I didn't cry much after I was 35, but staggered stony-faced into middle age, a handkerchief stil...
HILARY MANTEL In the early years, I found a voice that was my voice and also partly my father's voice. But isn...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN In the early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I w...
RAEKWON I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself actually writing until I was in colle...
ALICE WALKER I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again u...
JANET FITCH At one time in my life, from the time I was seven until I was about 13, I didn't speak. I only s...
MAYA ANGELOU I didn't have any writer friends in college. I was a computer science major, but I was writing a...
WATT KEY I've done a lot of geeky things in my life, but I think the geekiest of all was my first effort ...
WIL WHEATON From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt v...
PATTI SMITH My son is trying to be a sports writer, and my daughter is a college student. She wants to be a come...
HOWARD SCHULTZ Being a late bloomer, I really didn't have any interest in children until my late 30s, but I'...
STACY KEACH Since I was eight years old. I didn't have a TV, so comic books were definitely my television, m...
METHOD MAN I had a kind of tough early life. I had a tough time in school. I had an unsympathetic family in ter...
THOMAS MCGUANE I have accomplished a lot, but it didn't happen overnight for me. I was 35 when I got the show, and ...
ERIC MCCORMACK My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter.' He didn&...
TOM WOLFE It meant a lot because it was my first time to compete as a senior at that meet, which was kind of w...
CARLY PATTERSON As an actor, my background is in the theater and I feel that my strong suit is period work, but I ac...
COLM MEANEY I was definitely a late bloomer and didn't really come into my own until I was probably in my 20...
MISTY COPELAND I started writing when I was around 6. I say 'writing,' but it was really just making up stu...
HUNTER HAYES I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room o...
ADAM DRIVER I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I...
PAUL AUSTER I am 5 ft 6 in, and at my peak, my vital statistics were 37-22-35. I didn't even think about my ...
RAQUEL WELCH I didn't finish my dress until about three days before my wedding - I had the flu and was stitch...
GEORGINA CHAPMAN I was a huge Bowie fan since I was 12 years old. That was the first 'punk' rock I got into i...
BUZZ OSBORNE The Christian community latched onto a lot of my music, because there were a lot of things about my ...
SCOTT STAPP As a kid, I was pretty obsessed with dinosaurs and the day that my parents took me to Dinosaur Natio...
CHELSEA CLINTON I didn't want to get into acting. I was very happy doing MTV, it took up my time, I was content.
NAFISA JOSEPH I haven't had trouble with writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writ...
JENNIFER EGAN I had a blog and was documenting my life as a college student in an art school. I had a few comments...
MICHELLE PHAN It wasn't until my late teens that I really got into soul music and then I was like 'Ooh, th...
REBECCA FERGUSON My parents divorced when I was 3 years old. They had a lounge act in Las Vegas, where I was born. Th...
JENNY LEWIS I was raised in a large family. The first reason for my travel was to get away from my family. I kne...
PAUL THEROUX When I was six years old, my parents told me that we were moving back home to Armenia. I didn't ...
HENRIKH MKHITARYAN I started performing opera when I was 10 years old. I didn't perform as Zola Jesus until I was p...
ZOLA JESUS I wouldn't go back on my old days, though; everybody needs to have their wild years. It's ju...
ROB LOWE I was obsessed with work in my youth. It's why I didn't get married until I was 38 and the r...
PAM FERRIS In the mid-1980s to the early 1990s I was writing songs not because I particularly liked what I was ...
GARY NUMAN When I was thirteen years old, I didn't exactly discover epic fantasy on my own. I acquired it a...
TANSY RAYNER ROBERTS For a writer, children make life needlessly hard. I've muddled through a lot of things, but I ha...
RICHARD FORD When I was 19 years old, I came down with anorexia. I had it for about a year before it became publi...
TRACEY GOLD I moved to New York City when I was 20 years old, started making movies non-stop. I didn't have ...
CASEY NEISTAT The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that ...
RUSSELL BAKER I didn't always want to act. My passion was writing, and it still is one of my primary passions ...
BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD All of a sudden, I was in charge of my own decisions in the studio, and I didn't have someone to...
JOHNNY MATHIS Reaching my first grand slam final was amazing, and I didn't expect it at just 19 years old.
CAROLINE WOZNIACKI I didn't get a formal introduction to horror until right about the age of 12, when my uncle show...
JOSH MALERMAN I felt like that was my calling. I just didn't know how I was going to get my voice out of Edmon...
RUTH B I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career.
DABNEY COLEMAN I'm friends with a lot of my exes, but it took time. We didn't just get into it. I don't...
RASHIDA JONES When I first started acting I was about nine years old. I had never been to audition in my life and ...
ALEXANDER LUDWIG My daughter's wanted to be an actress since she was six years old, but I didn't want her to ...
RICKY SCHRODER You'll be a good parent when you're ready to no longer be selfish. Until I was about 35, it ...
LAUREN HOLLY A lot of my stories about the old days, they're delicious and funny. But every time I recall the...
MARIO CUOMO We spoke French at home and I didn't know any English until I went to school. My mother was Fren...
JOANNE HARRIS I'm a writer who simply can't know what I'm writing about until the writing lets me disc...
FLOYD SKLOOT As a father, I do everything my dad didn't do. My son Beau's birth changed my life.
DAVID CASSIDY I didn't start writing until late high school and then I was just diddling. Mainly I loved to re...
JUNOT DIAZ I'm a fairly ascetic person. And I do most of my writing at night. You don't get distracted,...
CALEB CARR I had an insanely long commute - New York to D.C. - when I worked at 'National Geographic.' ...
CHARLES M. BLOW Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover ...
EDNA FERBER For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block.
MARY GARDEN Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartb...
ADELE I had gone to nursing school at Northampton Community College in my hometown of Bethlehem, Pennsylva...
CAROL GUZY You know, my parents had a restaurant. And I left home, actually, in 1949, when I was 13 years old, ...
JACQUES PEPIN I wasn't really a dark kid, but I was in my head a lot. I got good grades all through my 16 year...
KAREN ABBOTT The greatest thing about doing this movie was that Chris and I both were involved in folk music in t...
EUGENE LEVY I didn't realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that ...
ALAN JACKSON I had a stalker break into my house a couple times. They didn't leave any fingerprints or take a...
KATEE SACKHOFF My life has been such a blur since I was 18, 19 years old. I haven't even had time to contemplat...
GRANT ACHATZ I had many different careers early on. I knew I wanted to be a writer. But, like so many people, I d...
DAVID GRANN As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to kn...
ALBERT ELLIS

More Chris Crutcher

There is no Jesus without Judas, no Martin Luther King, Jr., without the Klan; no Ali without Joe Fr...
CHRIS CRUTCHER ...we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better b...
CHRIS CRUTCHER From a distance,' he says, 'my car looks just like every other car on the freeway, and Sarah Byrnes ...
CHRIS CRUTCHER If we are to stop bullying in schools, we have to start with teachers and administrators. If we want...
CHRIS CRUTCHER My first book, 'Running Loose', was censored back in 1983 or '84. Every book I've wr...
CHRIS CRUTCHER Athletics carries its own set of truths, and those truths are diminished when manipulated by people ...
CHRIS CRUTCHER I have no personal agenda in whether or not a library keeps 'Whale Talk' or 'Athletic Sh...
CHRIS CRUTCHER I was pretty anti-academic, and I wasn't much of a student. I had a really short attention span ...
CHRIS CRUTCHER The premise of 'Deadline' forced me to go against my own grain with a character determined t...
CHRIS CRUTCHER ...racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are ...
CHRIS CRUTCHER Something about the joy and pain of that moment, something about the excruciating contrast, made me ...
CHRIS CRUTCHER If we're going to make a real dent in the bullying issue, we're going to have to address the...
CHRIS CRUTCHER Being an outsider means not being heard, not having a voice. It means being treated as a second-clas...
CHRIS CRUTCHER What I hope my writing reflects... is a sense of the connections between all human beings... and a d...
CHRIS CRUTCHER (The Michigan district) used it as an all-school reader, ... Sophomores, juniors and seniors were re...
CHRIS CRUTCHER If you've seen 'Friday Night Lights' - that was just like my town.
CHRIS CRUTCHER My years as a therapist working with abuse and neglect families taught me at least one important les...
CHRIS CRUTCHER I'm sorry. I can't do this. I thought I could but I can't. My favorite professor at the university s...
CHRIS CRUTCHER Love in the universal sense, is unconditional acceptance. In the individual sense, the one on one se...
CHRIS CRUTCHER So you didn’t tell me it was a messed-up idea to keep this all a secret because. . .”
Beca...
CHRIS CRUTCHER The distances across that atom, in relative measure, are the same as the distances across the univer...
CHRIS CRUTCHER There isn't an entity in the universe that does not know about love.
CHRIS CRUTCHER Tonight sometime the full reality will dawn on him, but he's like me: the guy you want at the site w...
CHRIS CRUTCHER The only truly ruined people are those who believe they are.
CHRIS CRUTCHER Experience is the only teacher,” Hey-Soos says. “Even if I could have told you, it would have be...
CHRIS CRUTCHER I think when you’re dying you start looking for important things in the corners. You can’t let a...
CHRIS CRUTCHER I figure if Doc is right about the time I have left,I should wrap up my adolescence in the next few ...
CHRIS CRUTCHER I'd rather be a flash than a slowly burning ember.
CHRIS CRUTCHER So you didn’t tell me it was a messed-up idea to keep this all a secret because. . .”

CHRIS CRUTCHER If someone's different from you and it scares you or makes you mad, that's God telling you to take a...
CHRIS CRUTCHER Beware the short terminal guy with nothing to lose.
CHRIS CRUTCHER You put yourself out there in the truest way you can and hope others do the same. You'll connect or ...
CHRIS CRUTCHER But the truth doesn't need to be known, or believed, to be true.
CHRIS CRUTCHER Love, in the universal sense, is unconditional acceptance. In the individual sense, the one-on-one s...
CHRIS CRUTCHER If I have any complaints about my youth... one is that many well-meaning adults lied to me. Not spit...
CHRIS CRUTCHER I don't think I'll ever lose the feeling that I had when I read 'To Kill a Mockingbird&#...
CHRIS CRUTCHER A student asked me recently why somebody always dies in my books. I said, because somebody is always...
CHRIS CRUTCHER Viruses have no morality, no sense of good and evil, the deserving or the undeserving.... AIDS is no...
CHRIS CRUTCHER Leave me alone, you big fat shitburger!
CHRIS CRUTCHER Does anyone in this room have it?"
"No, Chris, no one here has it."
"How do you know?"
CHRIS CRUTCHER Since then I have searched for my heroes among small-t truths. I always find them among people learn...
CHRIS CRUTCHER I know the answer to the question now, by the way: why bad things happen to good people and good thi...
CHRIS CRUTCHER It's easy to look back and say if things had been perfect, I could have accommodated all of those th...
CHRIS CRUTCHER As a child abuse and neglect therapist I do battle daily with Christians enamored of the Old Testame...
CHRIS CRUTCHER I am for anything that makes teens visible in an honest way... in other words, anything that represe...
CHRIS CRUTCHER It's the scene in the book that probably gets the most attention, ... The biggest problem is that sh...
CHRIS CRUTCHER You have to be mad in the language you're mad in.
CHRIS CRUTCHER She thought if she could get the color off, her daddy would love her, ... She didn't get to eat with...
CHRIS CRUTCHER ...You don't always get what you expect. I wish someone, sometime when I was growing up, would have ...
CHRIS CRUTCHER Nothing exists without its opposite.
CHRIS CRUTCHER Censors can make a case for zero tolerance in language. They can make the argument that since we don...
CHRIS CRUTCHER I can't think of a subject that is taboo for me, unless it's one I simply don't know any...
CHRIS CRUTCHER Any writer my age almost can't get away from being influenced by Kurt Vonnegut, partially becaus...
CHRIS CRUTCHER The value of a story like 'Deadline' is kids get to look at death at the perfect distance. T...
CHRIS CRUTCHER When the sun rises in the morning and sets in the night. When the moon comes into sight from the eas...
CHRIS Love that never stoped. That grew with each tear drop, with each fight. With endless nights talking ...
CHRIS Only true love will make it through the wicked world.
CHRIS Curiosity killed the cat, then it came back eight more times to try it again.
CHRIS I have my own demons and dark moods. It's weird.
CHRIS ROCK Go out and find a copy of 'The Shrinking Of Treehorn' and its sequel, 'Treehorn's Tr...
CHRIS RIDDELL I find the ritual of shaving very relaxing, but for every day, it's pretty irritating on my skin...
CHRIS PINE I had a beard way before it was fashionable.
CHRIS STAPLETON Am I a workaholic? Yes, but I also have no problem taking time for myself.
CHRIS JERICHO For whatever reason, we relate to anything godlike with an English accent. The English are very prou...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH Work all paled into the background as soon as I had a baby.
CHRIS HEMSWORTH Growing up, my parents were my heroes, in the way they conducted their lives.
CHRIS HEMSWORTH I'd like to think I'm a normal sort of guy, but go to my mum and she'll probably say, &#...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH I entered the work force cleaning breast pumps at a pharmacy! It was a part-time gig while I was at ...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH Being a superhero is a lot of fun.
CHRIS HEMSWORTH My daughter is full energy, like my wife and I, and strong-minded and has an opinion, like we do. An...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH Strong female leads are important.
CHRIS HEMSWORTH Growing up I always loved films that transport you to another world and has things you never see in ...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH It wasn't until 'Thor' that I started lifting weights. It was all pretty new to me.
CHRIS HEMSWORTH I have sporadic OCD cleaning moments around the house. But then I get lazy and I'm cured. It'...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH Sometimes there is more exploration in the character for a villain.
CHRIS HEMSWORTH I'm for comfort, not for style.
CHRIS HEMSWORTH I like to explore things.
CHRIS HEMSWORTH You have the massive world that was created by Marvel, and then you have these very intimate actors ...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH I put the costume on and said 'It's not very comfortable, but it looks amazing,' so it&#...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH As a kid, I loved any fantasy.
CHRIS HEMSWORTH As kids, our experiences shape our opinions of ourselves and the world around us, and that's who...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH I feel like I'm ready for any dangerous situation that might come my way, provided I have a hamm...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH I actually find it harder to act in the scenes where there's not much happening, say having a mi...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH First time I looked at a Formula One car in person, I just stared at the cockpit, figuring I'd n...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH The more conflict and contrast you have with a character makes it more interesting.
CHRIS HEMSWORTH People who put themselves on the line and sacrifice their own safety for the greater good and for ot...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH For me, life is about experience and being a good person.
CHRIS HEMSWORTH No matter where you put me, I don't care if it is North Carolina, Florida, California, New York ...
CHRIS PAUL The mass audience doesn't want to see you if you aren't perfect. If you don't look a cer...
CHRIS PINE I've always been the type of guy that wants to change, adapt and morph from year to year.
CHRIS JERICHO If my son is happy, then I am happy.
CHRIS PAUL I live in a neighborhood so bad that you can get shot while getting shot.
CHRIS ROCK The thing that surprised me the most is just how much money women that weren't rich were paying ...
CHRIS ROCK Comedians tend to find a comfort zone and stay there and do lamer versions of themselves for the res...
CHRIS ROCK If you properly clean a room, it gets dirtier before it gets cleaner.
CHRIS ROCK Jokes rot. They're not like songs. I always envy singers - Sting is always going to sing 'Ro...
CHRIS ROCK Anything you can suck at should make you nervous.
CHRIS ROCK Karaoke isn't fair when you're a comedian. The whole idea is to get people laughing and enjo...
CHRIS ROCK When I hear people talk about juggling, or the sacrifices they make for their children, I look at th...
CHRIS ROCK I'll go back to comedy clubs when they get a real no-camera policy, the same way they did with s...
CHRIS ROCK Charlie Brown is the one person I identify with. C.B. is such a loser. He wasn't even the star o...
CHRIS ROCK You can only offend me if you mean something to me.
CHRIS ROCK You don't need a critic to tell you people aren't laughing.
CHRIS ROCK I'm severely overrated. I'm just above a hack. That should be the name of my new DVD: 'C...
CHRIS ROCK Now that I have children, I realize taking care of my children is more fun than anything in the whol...
CHRIS ROCK Show me one guy or woman as funny as Rodney Dangerfield or as good as George Carlin, Richard Pryor, ...
CHRIS ROCK If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she'...
CHRIS ROCK Black people have been qualified to be president for hundreds of years. George Washington Carver cou...
CHRIS ROCK The reason there's no modern-day Shakespeare is because he didn't have anything to do except...
CHRIS CORNELL Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.
CHRIS LOWE I used to hang out with grandfather all the time because he used to pick me up from school sometimes...
CHRIS ROCK There's a difference between doing things right and doing the right thing.
CHRIS FUSSELL The 21st century is dominated by networks because the introduction of the information age, we can su...
CHRIS FUSSELL I think the western is about people in harsh places trying to tame an unfriendly wilderness. Because...
CHRIS PINE I always say that the times in my life when I've been happiest are the times when I've seen,...
CHRIS EVANS I don't appreciate Internet cyber bullying at all. It's not fair. With me, it gets hard beca...
CHRIS STOKES Having the right people around you all the time is important. I do take the acting seriously. But th...
CHRIS BROWN The more you are positive and say, 'I want to have a good life,' the more you build that rea...
CHRIS PINE It connects humans to other humans in a profound way that I've never seen before in any other fo...
CHRIS MILK It's like, hmm, there's people with $2000 weaves that could have bought health care with tha...
CHRIS ROCK We all live in a universe in which we're either asked to or are forced to accept certain premise...
CHRIS PAVONE Now I'm confused. Now I don't know what I want.
CHRIS KIRKPATRICK I believe in luck and fate and I believe in karma, that the energy you put out in the world comes ba...
CHRIS PINE I'd like my super power to be puns; I'd like to be great at puns: pun power. Then I could go...
CHRIS O'DOWD I would love to close my eyes and see myself with my girlfriend when we're 99 years old and I ha...
CHRIS MESSINA Mediocrity scares me. It's the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to ...
CHRIS PINE In any bureaucracy, there's a natural tendency to let the system become an excuse for inaction.
CHRIS FUSSELL A live performance is the same no matter what genre it is. Wrestling, rock 'n roll, hosting, act...
CHRIS JERICHO There are a lot of similarities between dancing and wrestling. The costumes are the same, the spande...
CHRIS JERICHO The point is that when I see a sunset or a waterfall or something, for a split second it's so gr...
CHRIS EVANS I play Texas Hold'em on my Blackberry. I have amassed a fortune on that. I have almost 30 millio...
CHRIS CORNELL I am just pitifully nostalgic. I can't help but roll my eyes at myself frequently. I mean, I sti...
CHRIS LOWELL If you're an American kid, you can't help but be influenced by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath a...
CHRIS CORNELL The violence of war is random. It does not make sense. And many of those who struggle with loss also...
CHRIS HEDGES Just remember,' a Marine Corps lieutenant colonel told me as he strapped his pistol belt under his a...
CHRIS HEDGES There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in exchange for a little power ...
CHRIS HEDGES I said we are going to balance an $11 billion budget deficit in a $29 billion budget, so by percenta...
CHRIS CHRISTIE I'm much more starstruck by athletes than I am by actors, and I think I saw Kobe Bryant at a bas...
CHRIS EVANS I was in the room when Sundar convinced Eric Schmidt that it would be possible to unseat Internet Ex...
CHRIS SACCA I drew a lot of inspiration from the Ginuwines, the Ushers, the Michael Jacksons, the James Browns, ...
CHRIS BROWN I think for a lot of people, bowling is sort of a joke. But I love it, and it means a lot to me, so ...
CHRIS HARDWICK While the liberal media elite depict the bowler as a chubby guy with a comb-over and polyester pants...
CHRIS HARDWICK Bowling really was a big American sport in the '50s, '60s, and '70s, and then it kind of...
CHRIS HARDWICK Bowling is all physics and energy distribution. It's F = ma. So it is actually one of the most s...
CHRIS HARDWICK Some people fast, some people go on a cruise or visit a day spa. I get out in the woods with a rifle...
CHRIS PRATT I'm also launching a podcast. Because, I mean, the world desperately needs another podcast, am I...
CHRIS SACCA All the statistics in the world can't measure the warmth of a smile.
CHRIS HART After I left high school and got my GED, I studied broadcast journalism for a year at a community co...
CHRIS ROCK We will never be capable of true relationships with others if we continue to view them as others.
CHRIS MATAKAS In a pinch, when my leather shoes need a quick shine, I take the inside of a banana peel and rub it ...
CHRIS DIAMANTOPOULOS What's more unnerving than magnetism, ghosts, and unpurified water? Gadgetmongers who purport to...
CHRIS HARDWICK I think that the fact that a relationship becomes public is a bit of a bummer. Because it can distra...
CHRIS MARTIN Funny enough, the person who is most bummed out to hear I won't be back is Mark Cuban. Despite w...
CHRIS SACCA I'm always calculating what I want to do, who I want to be, what I want to accomplish. I don'...
CHRIS PINE You get to where you kind of like it, and It's a habit That's hard to break. I still find my...
CHRIS LEDOUX Film is just a different version of what we did round the campfire when we were Neanderthals. We tel...
CHRIS PINE China's one-child policy punishes families for having 'out-of-plan' children, resulting ...
CHRIS SMITH So many things for me are unfortunate in the commercialization of something that is special. It'...
CHRIS CARTER I think a lot of people in television news look at the cable networks with great envy.
CHRIS WALLACE That's what keeps me up at three in the morning: Who's looking at reviews of Cabin Boy right...
CHRIS ELLIOTT My friends tell me that I've calmed down, that I seem more centered. I don't know, I think m...
CHRIS KATTAN 2009 was one of the busiest, most insane, stressful periods in my entire career. I was raising a bun...
CHRIS SACCA I'm busier than I've ever been, but you can go through the lists of people who are bang up t...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH Ever since I was nine years old and I watched Neil and Buzz walk on the moon, I have felt passionate...
CHRIS HADFIELD Record sales don't really mean anything. For us, the pressure is imagining some 15-year-old kid ...
CHRIS MARTIN A writer can spend a decade working obsessively on a novel, but in the commerce of publishing, many ...
CHRIS PAVONE I'm calling myself 'The Doodler,' and with the simple addition of a small burglar's ...
CHRIS RIDDELL Coffee is already known to be a preventive factor against mild depression, Parkinson's disease, ...
CHRIS KILHAM 2016 has proven to be the year where the most forward-thinking financial institutions are actually u...
CHRIS LARSEN It seems like the studios are either making giant blockbusters, or really super-small indies. And th...
CHRIS EVANS Although I have to say, it's become a lot harder for me since I won the world series because eve...
CHRIS MONEYMAKER We have that storytelling history in country and bluegrass and old time and folk music, blues - all ...
CHRIS STAPLETON I just kind of went into the blue-collar workforce at a really young age and discovered music, in te...
CHRIS CORNELL We had no idea what we were in for when we started Blue Sky. We just had an idea of what we wanted t...
CHRIS WEDGE My favorite way to blow off steam is to sing obnoxiously loud in the shower.
CHRIS PRATT Guantanamo Bay houses enemy combatants ranging from terrorist trainers and recruiters to bomb makers...
CHRIS CHOCOLA You can get too bogged down in technology and you can sort of forget what it is you were trying to d...
CHRIS LOWE In the United States, workouts tend to focus on body image and how you look. For me, it's really...
CHRIS CORNELL I love 'Boardwalk Empire.' I really love that world. I love that style. I love all the actor...
CHRIS MESSINA It depends on various things like if the promoters want to have a break so they can sell more T-shir...
CHRIS SQUIRE If you're in the WWE, it's like show business boot camp. You learn a little bit about everyt...
CHRIS JERICHO And it's interesting, when you look at the predictions made during the peak of the boom in the 1...
CHRIS ANDERSON Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actu...
CHRIS MATTHEWS If I could rub a genie and anything could happen? Truthfully, my other love, and this is a complete ...
CHRIS DIAMANTOPOULOS I was a shy kid, a late bloomer. At 22, I was probably 16 emotionally.
CHRIS PINE I love Latin women, yet for some reason I always wind up with blondes.
CHRIS KIRKPATRICK I've always said there is a boulevard that exists between compromising your principles and getti...
CHRIS CHRISTIE Being voted the world's sexiest vegetarian is about as cool as it gets. It's not quite as co...
CHRIS MARTIN 'The Expats' is a thriller, but one that tends more toward general fiction than toward breat...
CHRIS PAVONE I don't think breakups are ever easy for anybody. If they are, they aren't much of a breakup...
CHRIS YOUNG Some of the greatest reality television we ever had was the moon landings. When you think about it, ...
CHRIS HADFIELD The only time it got really crazy was during 'Batman.' Anywhere I went in the world, people ...
CHRIS O'DONNELL Encouragement is like water to the soul, it makes everything grow.
CHRIS BURKMENN 'Horrible Bosses' is just blatant, outright fun. I've read some of what the critics have...
CHRIS PINE No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or &#...
CHRIS WARE Economically, unfair trade will benefit nobody in the long run, as poorer countries will be bled tot...
CHRIS MARTIN Keep your enemies in front of you
CHRIS MATTHEWS What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the sim...
CHRIS ABANI Wherever it is you may be, it is your friends who make your world.
CHRIS BRADFORD There are only two forces at work in this world- black and white. Only people are grey.
CHRIS HEIMERDINGER