Bruce Johnston Quotes

We are a business, and you do a little of what you think's right, pay your bills, and attract... a single record attracts attention to your concerts and your albums.

Bruce Johnston

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• This is something I've wanted to do my whole life is play baseball, and I think just the opportunity to put on a big-league uniform every day is just... you know, people dream of it, but not everybody gets to do it. I'm thankful every day I get to do it.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • People
  • Life
  • Dream

• I don't think at Pixar we'd ever make something that was too scary for general audiences.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Think
  • Scary
  • Something

• I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Writing
  • Friend
  • Add

• I started off dancing and playing sports, and I joined the drama stuff, the theatre stuff in middle school because my friends were involved, and it was kind of the cool thing to do.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • School
  • Friends
  • Cool

• I just respect Kanye as an artist.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Respect
  • Artist
  • Just

• As an actor, the first thing you're taught is, 'Don't look into the camera; ignore it.'

  

  Yael Grobglas
  • Look
  • Ignore
  • Camera

• I get along very well with animals and children. I dig them, I get them.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Children
  • Animals
  • Very

• I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.

  

  Vince Carter
  • Play
  • Fighting
  • Sports

• When I was a child, I grew up speaking French, I mean, in a French public school. So my first contact with literature was in French, and that's the reason why I write in French.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • Up
  • School
  • Why

• I do everything in a straightforward manner.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Everything
  • Manner

• Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Up
  • She
  • Film

• I found it very easy to transform into creeps and weirdos and losers and goof-balls, and I'm happy to play eccentric kinds of characters, and I have a great affinity for the outsider, but I definitely am about expanding my range as well.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Great
  • Happy
  • Easy

• I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Why
  • Way
  • Like

• I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Movies
  • Down
  • Million

• I think globalization is a great thing. And now a lot of people complain about globalization; a lot of people don't like, you know, the globalize of the concept, the idea of the results. I think the globalization is a great idea and to create a lot of jobs.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Great
  • Globalization

• The distinction between reality and fiction in America seems like it is becoming really blurry. With its religious fanaticism, reality TV programs and fake news broadcasts being aired by the government, the States feel like they are entering the Dark Ages.

  

  Dana Schutz
  • America
  • Reality
  • Government

• It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • You
  • Answer
  • Call

• Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • Democracy
  • Bring
  • Central

• I'm writing a poem right now about a nose. I've always wanted to write a poem about a nose. But it's a ludicrous subject. That's why, when I was younger, I was afraid of something that didn't make a lot of sense. But now I'm not. I have nothing to worry about. It doesn't matter.

  

  Maurice Sendak
  • Writing
  • Why
  • Worry

• I can let the team do the talking for me.

  

  Bob Paisley
  • Team

• Opening acts are hard, really hard. There's more politics involved than music, sometimes.

  

  Kaki King
  • Music
  • Sometimes
  • Politics

• I've made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes you're in a movie and you think, 'I wish more people saw that' - because you're good. And it just works out that the movie gets lost. But that's show business.

  

  Christopher Walken
  • People
  • Good
  • Business

• We were advised that nobody could stop us from pursuing our craft simply because we had honed, or even developed that craft while working at a company.

  

  David Crane
  • Stop

• We are a business, and you do a little of what you think's right, pay your bills, and attract... a single record attracts attention to your concerts and your albums.

  

  Bruce Johnston
  • Business
  • Attention
  • Single