Michael Nesmith Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm a huge gamer. I play a lot of games, and I play one game until I'm really, really good at it.
-
You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we weren't able to play anything that anyone wanted to hear. So we learned songs that we thought that we could do without puking.
-
Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.
-
The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.
-
When I was young, to have a big nose, big lips or dark skin was the worst. You were the wretched. That was something I not only felt, but I participated in.
-
There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.
-
If someone put a camera in my face now, when I am in student mode, I would get embarrassed, but when I am modelling, I play characters.
-
I'm from New Orleans. There's a lot of vampire mystique and mythology that resonates there, and I was fascinated by it. I always wanted to play one.
-
We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
-
Spitfire asked me if I had a problem talking about Van Halen or Extreme. I really don't. There are people who are just going to want to know what it was like to play with Eddie.
-
The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
-
I thought, 'I've been doing this for 16 years professionally. I have a window where I want to play leading parts.'
-
When I was a lad in my 20s, as carefree and debonair as any other underpaid newspaperman, I happened to be a golfer who could flirt with par fairly often, and I was adventurous enough in those days to play any known or unknown thief who showed up at Goat Hills for whatever amount he fancied.
-
I wanted to play incredibly challenging, multifaceted characters. Because we are all a puzzle.
-
I was always the smallest role in community theater and school plays. I always had two lines - I was the kid that came on stage and said one thing and then left, and that was my part for the play.
-
Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
-
I have never been to a museum in Hong Kong, or a movie or a play. I've never gone club-hopping. I've never taken the tram to Victoria Peak.
-
I found it really hard for a couple of years to do any writing because all I wanted to do was play the fiddle. From the minute I took it up, I just couldn't put it down.
-
I always tell my Western friends that it is best to keep your own tradition. Changing religion is not easy and sometimes causes confusion. You must value your tradition and honor your own religion.
-
I used to sit on the roof of the apartment where Jim Morrison used to write his early lyrics
-
It's politically impossible for any member of Congress to make a public statement condemning or criticizing the policies of Israel. It would be political suicidal for them to do so.
-
I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character - teaches people about leadership and cooperation.
-
My biggest fear, I think falling from a great height. If I want to keep myself awake at night I imagine I'm on the top of the North or South Tower in 9/11, wondering whether I'm going to be burnt to death or I'm going to jump. And I think I would burn to death. And yet I'm impressed by the fact that hundreds didn't.
-
I’d play my nose now, but I’m... it’s... my nose is... out being fixed!
