David Nail Quotes
I naively thought I had to go door to door, find somebody who could record me singing some songs. I didn't know Music Row, I didn't know anything! So after six or seven months, I went back home and went to college.
Quotes to Explore
-
Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
-
Life's not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sandwiches by the loose chippings on the A597.
-
Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
-
Strange, is it not, my brothers, how often in America those great watchwords of human energy - 'Be strong!' 'Know thyself!' 'Hitch your wagon to a star!' - how often these die away into dim whispers when we face these seething millions of black men? And yet do they not belong to them? Are they not their heritage as well as yours?
-
I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
-
I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
-
I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
-
I had my father, and he was an amazing man and an amazing role model, so I always wanted to mirror that.
-
As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
-
On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
-
Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.
-
Engineering or technology is all about using the power of science to make life better for people, to reduce cost, to improve comfort, to improve productivity, etc.
-
I love the produce section at the grocery store.
-
Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.
-
When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.
-
In India, you see the way they embrace color in the culture - it's very celebratory of the existence of color. There's no rule of what color belongs together or doesn't belong together. They're not precious about it. It's very full-on.
-
I'm not a sex symbol. How could I be with these skinny bowlegs?
-
A European army must protect the continent from two sides, from the east and from the south, in terms of protecting against terrorism and migration.
-
Some women think that if the look this season is minis, they have to wear minis. If you don't have great legs, there are plenty of alternatives.
-
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
-
In any profession it gets to be a grind.
-
The Election Assistance Commission represents a major, unprecedented commitment from the federal government to sustained freedom and vibrant democracy. I am humbled by the prospect of being one its charter members.
-
I naively thought I had to go door to door, find somebody who could record me singing some songs. I didn't know Music Row, I didn't know anything! So after six or seven months, I went back home and went to college.
