Jeffrey Bernard Quotes
Oh, to me not drinking is like being dead, almost. I sit here taking endless journeys down memory lane. It gets boring.
Quotes to Explore
-
It was funny on '24' because I'm a Scots-Canadian, and I was working with the great Scottish actor Tony Curran, and we were both playing Russian gangsters.
-
Research has shown that time pressure leads to tunnel vision and that people think more creatively when they are calm, unhurried and free from stress and distractions. We all know this from experience.
-
I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.
-
Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.
-
When you're fighting with a stunt person, your intent is to miss.
-
Univision is the only network where you pay for more, not for less.
-
I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941.
-
Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.
-
Remember you don't do anything in isolation.
-
Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma. The philosophy of action is that no one else is the giver of peace or happiness. One's own karma, one's own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever.
-
We didn't do cotillions or anything. My family made fun of the pageants.
-
The sky takes on shades of orange during sunrise and sunset, the colour that gives you hope that the sun will set only to rise again.
-
Frankly I'm fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family, I have little time for anything else.
-
Like the practice of breath control, meditation on the forms of God, repetition of mantras, food restrictions, etc., are but aids for rendering the mind quiescent.
-
Texas has no income tax, which is a big draw for corporate executives who do business there. But it's hardly tax-free. The property taxes are high for a Southern state. The sales taxes are high. One study found that the bottom 20 percent of the Texas population pays 12 percent of its income in state and local taxes.
-
If the landscape changes, then I don't know who I am either. The landscape is a refracted autobiography. As it disappears you lose your sense of self.
-
Piano is like drudgery.
-
General Advice: Never break a promise, but re-negotiate them if need be. If you haven’t got time to do it right, you don’t have time to do it wrong. Recognize that most things are pass/fail. Feedback loops: ask in confidence.
-
If you focus on the actions of others and allow them to constantly upset you, then you are handing your peace over to them and giving away your power.
-
When I'm not in front of the camera, I'm just like any other normal person. I'm a student. I eat when I'm stressed.
-
Show me a woman who is prouder of her clean kitchen than of her collection of lingerie and I'll show you a woman with enlarged pores.
-
I used to get tired of drinking iced tea, so I'd ask my wife if we had some lemonade, and I would just dump it right in there.
-
For a long time I thought I knew for sure who I was. I grew up in New Orleans and became a comedian. And there was everything that came along with that. The nightclubs. The smoking. The drinking. Then I turned 13.
-
Oh, to me not drinking is like being dead, almost. I sit here taking endless journeys down memory lane. It gets boring.
