James Belushi Quotes

Heroes aren't born, they' re cornered. Oh, I was cornered. And I found out that I was no hero.

James Belushi

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• I got to do the movie, and people who enjoyed 'The Birdcage' came out to see me on stage when I did 'Forum.' It introduced me to a whole new audience that wasn't familiar with my stage work.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • People
  • Work
  • Movie

• There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Pain
  • Gratitude
  • Revenge

• Retirement's the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up. After an extraordinary life, it's time to enjoy my retirement.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • People
  • Society
  • Rest

• There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Write
  • Nothing
  • Really

• We've become slaves to words like 'local,' 'fresh,' and 'seasonal.' We all want to be Thomas Jefferson's agrarian hero, but sustainable food is a difficult beast.

  

  Barton Seaver
  • Words
  • Food
  • Hero

• My parents are high school sweethearts.

  

  Becky G
  • School
  • High
  • Parents

• We've come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can't imagine Dr. King watching the 'Real Housewives' or 'Jersey Shore.'

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Real

• My uncles and my aunts were outstanding. There's just no other way to say it.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Way
  • Say
  • Uncles

• I set my sights on making an Olympic team, not realizing how tough it was going to be.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Team
  • Going
  • Tough

• You can't legislate or litigate good, healthy behavior but we must be willing to educate people at an early age about the affects of unhealthy living.

  

  Zack Wamp
  • People
  • Good
  • Age

• We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Red
  • Storm
  • Weapons

• As a spectator, you get to watch everything, but I'd much rather be playing than watching. I'll have time to watch later in my career.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Time
  • Career
  • You

• I think a lot of theater actors that were great, like Walken or Glenn Close, later became film actors.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Great
  • Think
  • Film

• There's that old theory that humankind and this planet were seen as the centre of the universe. That was thrown away - how could we be so presumptuous? Well, I subscribe to that.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Universe
  • Old
  • Theory

• Obviously fashion is a completely different world from football.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • World
  • Different
  • Fashion

• A lot of my close friends are nothing to do with show business. But the people I've had relationships with, invariably, I've worked with. I think that's probably because I grew up in a family where we all worked together, so it's something I feel comfortable with.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• My fans can see me grow up.

  

  Becky G
  • Me
  • See
  • Fans

• I don't take sides for or against Hezbollah, or for or against Israel.

  

  John Dingell

• Heroes represent the best of ourselves, respecting that we are human beings. A hero can be anyone from Gandhi to your classroom teacher, anyone who can show courage when faced with a problem. A hero is someone who is willing to help others in his or her best capacity.

  

  Ricky Martin
  • Help
  • Teacher
  • Courage

• When I became a standup comic, my hero, one of them, was Richard Pryor, and you know, I think that comedians, like, comedians talk about hacks, and what a hack is, is someone who does stuff that's not original.

  

  Artie Lange
  • Hero
  • Comic
  • Comedians

• All my big heroes are literary, writers. I'd love to meet Jimmy Hendrix or John Coltrane, but I'd much rather meet Thomas Wolfe, or F. Scott Fitzgerald. Words and books have always meant a lot to me. That someone can take words and string them together to where they will move me is just a hell of a thing. It's amazing to me; more amazing to me than music or painting. It's always been the written word or the spoken word, like a great lecture or a great lyric, or a great poem. To me it's just amazing. And I always aspire toward capturing that, or my version of it.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Book
  • Together
  • Moving

• Heroes aren't born, they' re cornered. Oh, I was cornered. And I found out that I was no hero.

  

  James Belushi
  • Hero