Eddie Vedder (Edward Louis Severson III) Quotes
You don't love me. If you really knew me, you wouldn't love me. You love who you think I am. And don't pretend that you know me. Because I don't even know myself.
Quotes to Explore
-
My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.
-
My lesson from history is that if there is a strong moderate centrist party which can lead the country, there is no room for extremists from the right or left.
-
When you're doing a car chase movie, you're sitting in car waiting for places or grips or stuff for quite a while.
-
I had long had an instinct about there being a role for me in a creative industry. Maybe I didn't listen to that voice as much earlier on, but when it had become a deafening sound in my head I realised I had to go and explore it.
-
She was a great lady. We raised three boys, were together as long as she lived, and now she's passed on.
-
I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.
-
With every bathroom renovation, there are three areas that I focus on: budget, function and style.
-
I resent that there is an image of perfection that is getting thinner and thinner. I've got a lovely husband and children, and I didn't lose weight to find those things.
-
I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
-
People get very trapped where they are. When they hear 'fashion' they get intimidated, particularly at the upper end because it's so elitist.
-
The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.
-
Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.
-
Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
-
I was a social worker for Baltimore families. Now I'm a social worker building opportunities for families throughout America.
-
Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
-
Women are not all single-issue voters.
-
My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
-
While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.
-
I'm incredibly close to my family. I have two younger brothers; they're both artists and actors, and their work and the way they see the world inspires me.
-
A producer wouldn't think of making a film about ballet dancers without using real dancers, but they will cast actors who have never held a bat in baseball films.
-
I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.
-
I know of musicians who have played together for decades who hate each other. The Modern Jazz Quartet for one.
-
I can't go and shoot people in the back of the head because It's a kids' movie, which is actually quite a good test because you haven't got the overt threat of a knife in the face.
-
You don't love me. If you really knew me, you wouldn't love me. You love who you think I am. And don't pretend that you know me. Because I don't even know myself.
