Mark Hoppus Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
-
I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
-
When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
-
I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
-
I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question.
-
I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
-
People see me high-fivin' and smiling on the court, and they don't think that's me. But it is. I just want to go out and be myself.
-
I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.
-
Expanding background checks will help create a uniform standard for all gun purchases and prevent criminals and the dangerously mentally ill from obtaining powerful weapons.
-
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
-
I get a lot of people saying to me, 'Oh, you're the actor who plays the nutters,' and I'm not. I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're doing. When you play a villain, you don't play a villain: you play a human being doing what he thinks he needs to do to get what he wants.
-
I am not afraid to go to jail.
-
My commitment is to Los Angeles, so whatever helps this continue to be a great city, that's what I would be focused to do, and the Dodgers are certainly iconic to Los Angeles.
-
I thanked President Obama for the United States' work in supporting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan and for Syrian refugees.
-
Growing up in the time of Title IX - it was passed when I was 10 - I got a front-row seat to so many great moments in women's sports. Of course I didn't know it at the time.
-
I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.
-
Some people have been talking about - every place I go, they bring up the issue of foreign aid. I go, 'You can't get rid of all foreign aid.'
-
It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.
-
I'd like to do a comedy, actually. I think it would be great to do a sitcom or something like that. I'm pretty much open to anything.
-
As I sit down and start to work, I often panic. I stare at the empty piece of music paper. How can I say that my piece will be ready for performance next January when I do not have a recipe for making it happen?
-
I believe you need films like that - feel-good, breezy films that families can watch.
-
If you want to get rid of stuff, you can always do a good spring-cleaning. Or you can do what I do. Move.
-
It's very seldom that we see the good of the South. There is a perception that Southerners are racists and everyone else in the nation is 'enlightened.' There is racism everywhere, and there is good everywhere.
-
I did mostly good things, except light things on fire.
