Scott Bakula Quotes

The reason why most of actors got into acting was so that we could become other people and have fun with being somebody else.

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• This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Mind
  • Identity
  • Speech

• Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'

  

  Ueli Gegenschatz
  • Power
  • You
  • Nice

• It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Why
  • Funny
  • Hate

• One of the biggest things that happens to many people when they have kids is that you suddenly realize that you're not going to last forever. You know there is another generation who are the heroes of their own stories, and that is humbling.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • People
  • Kids
  • Know

• I am just a plain Jew; I mean have no training.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Training
  • Jew

• I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Know

• Let us hope that for many it does mean the end of trouble so far as earning a livelihood is concerned, that it means happy and comfortable home living honestly earned. But there are other troubles ahead for her, and plenty of hard work.

  

  Florenz Ziegfeld
  • Work
  • Home
  • Happy

• My dad, Paul, is, like, my best friend.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Dad
  • Friend
  • Best

• I grew up with my mom; it was just the two of us.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Relationship
  • Mom
  • Grow Up

• Wherever I go meeting the public... spreading a message of human values, spreading a message of harmony, is the most important thing.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Important
  • Values
  • Meeting

• My best asset is my brain. Without my brain, I don't think the rest of me would be too hot.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Me
  • Rest
  • Best

• I have a new show now called 'The Bridge,' where I play a guy who's a real-life guy. My character's based on the life of a guy named Craig Bromell who was a cop for 12 years and then became head of the police association, so basically the president of the union for 85,000 cops.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Life
  • Real
  • Character

• On television, I have watched countless athletes from different countries, sports and Olympics stand proudly at the top of the podium and shed tears. They symbolized the Olympics for me because Olympic medals represent all of the hard work and sacrifices made by the athletes as well as the people who helped them reach the top of their sports.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us, the world is full of it and you simply take as much as you require.

  

  Edward Elgar
  • World
  • Music
  • Air

• Many thought it was a fool's errand - that the browser companies were never going to listen to us. Others argued that, 'Users don't care if you use Web standards.' Well, of course they don't. They just know that your site works better.

  

  Jeffrey Zeldman
  • Fool

• My goal is for General Motors to lead in safe autonomous driving.

  

  Mary Barra
  • Driving

• The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.

  

  Bill Nighy
  • True
  • Vampire

• I am very harsh on myself. I can point out a list. My nose is very strange. I have a very round face. I sound so ungrateful. Obviously I'm being hard on myself. Whether it's body dysmorphia, or whatever it is, I can always find something wrong.

  

  Emily Meade
  • Ungrateful

• Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

  

  Epictetus
  • Silence

• The best thing about me is there are no skeletons.

  

  David Cross

• When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.

  

  Petrarch
  • Cat
  • Poet
  • Died

• Despair exists only when there is hope.

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Hope

• And the central assertion of his philosophy is that this inner realm is the 'spiritual world' and that once man has learned to enter this realm, he realizes that it is not a mere imaginative reflection of the external world, but a world that possesses its own independent reality.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • World
  • Reality
  • Spiritual

• The reason why most of actors got into acting was so that we could become other people and have fun with being somebody else.

  

  Scott Bakula
  • People
  • Fun
  • Reason