Kenny Baker Quotes

I used to tour the theatres and clubs with an 18-foot luxury caravan strapped to the back of my Roller - it was a damn site more comfortable than most hotels.

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• The kids can see that there are more parts to me than just being their mom; I wear a couple of different hats and have other roles to play.

  

  Laura Leighton
  • Kids
  • Play
  • Mom

• The funniest people I know were, not necessarily troubled, but had a harder time in school or were shy or picked on or something like that. I think that you rely on it. 'Well, I don't think I'm cute and no one wants to hang out with me - I'd better start trying to make people laugh.' I think there's an element of that in there.

  

  Kaitlin Olson
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• I'm often drawn to characters that are more obviously one thing. They're passionate, and there is always an element of strength because I think every person possesses that in some way, even if they've experienced hardship in their lives.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Think
  • Strength
  • Hardship

• At the end of OK Computer we were playing big, big arenas and it wasn't right. You can do those things occasionally but at the time it didn't feel right.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Time
  • Feel
  • End

• The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats.

  

  Frances Perkins
  • Time
  • Long
  • Women

• Let's be honest: discrimination against Arabs exists in Israel.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Israel
  • Discrimination

• I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Life
  • Art
  • Fear

• If I don't terrorize, I'm not Pop.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Pop

• I lead a simple life. I feed the fish. I walk the dogs. I cook dinner. Occasionally I take a meeting.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Life
  • Simple
  • Dinner

• It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Style
  • Old
  • Loss

• Laurel Canyon is kind of grotesque. It's this nature-themed place, and everybody is kind of angry.

  

  J. Tillman
  • Nature
  • Kind
  • Angry

• I love Manhattan.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Manhattan

• Looking back on those days and little leaguer, the Hall of Fame is not even a blinking star, but through baseball travels and moving up the ladder, that star begins to flicker.

  

  Wade Boggs
  • Up
  • Moving
  • Star

• In a lot of places in the United States and certainly even more places around the world, the image of the cowboy has become, for some people, a negative one. The word 'cowboy' implies a strong, stubborn individual whose individualism depends on pulling down other people's individualism.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • World
  • Strong

• When I was about 16, I got my ball taken off me by the police for playing in the street - which is pathetic really.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Me
  • Taken
  • Police

• 'The Graduate' must be the best use of songs ever in a movie; it adds a layer to the movie you wouldn't ever get from a score.

  

  Hans Zimmer
  • Movie
  • You
  • Best

• When I first got asked to run for the state Senate, I was asked by a number of legislators I had worked with, and I thanked them and declined.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • First
  • Run
  • Senate

• But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Heart
  • Society
  • Alone

• Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.

  

  Joseph Pulitzer
  • Remember
  • Read
  • Appreciate

• People can't do miracles and are not responsible to do miracles, but people can pick up miracles from God and hand it to another person - a miracle happens when that occurs.

  

  Bruce Wilkinson
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• 'House of Balloons' was actually supposed to have more songs than it does.

  

  The Weeknd
  • House

• One cannot live without motives. I have no motives left, and I am living.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Live

• Where I grew up, I could be a punk rocker and a jock. But in college, it became apparent that those two worlds didn't mix. When I brought my guitar back to school after Thanksgiving break, a friend handed me his bass and said, 'Listen to the Ramones.'

  

  Jeff Ament
  • Up
  • School
  • College

• I used to tour the theatres and clubs with an 18-foot luxury caravan strapped to the back of my Roller - it was a damn site more comfortable than most hotels.

  

  Kenny Baker