Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
'We pride ourselves on trying to put on the best show we can and we're not afraid to say that we happen to be the best live band in the world'
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a character actor.
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I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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This is precisely why you choose to run for office and get elected. You're asking the people to let you be their voice. I don't think there is a more powerful and intense experience than the opportunity to be the voice of the 307 million people living in this country.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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I'm such a happy, easygoing person.
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I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.
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Throwing money at something doesn't really create - forgive me that onerous word - art.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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As a liberal and progressive, I abhor the notion of conflict and bloodshed and very much want to find a diplomatic solution to the Iran nuclear issue.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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Mark Ruffalo is just an amazing guy and an amazing director.
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Thomas Pynchon looks exactly like Thomas Pynchon should look. He is tall, he wears lumberjack shirts and blue jeans. He has Albert Einstein white hair and Bugs Bunny front teeth.
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There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
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Our critics would love nothing more for us to go away and just be quiet. And we won't give them that satisfaction. We have young children that, one day, when they understand more of what's happened and what's transpired, we wanna be able to say to them, you know, we did our best. And we told the truth.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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It's so comforting to have a small piece of cake. Just one slice.
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On 'Arrow,' we have Ray Palmer and Roy Harper, and if you call Roy 'Ray' and Ray 'Roy,' you have to put money into the jar.
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When you're really bummed out, the last thing you want to hear is up-tempo and positive. And it lets you know that you're not alone, that somebody has hurt before. It works the same way with chick songs as it does with political songs. When you hear somebody singing about these things, you know that you're not alone, that somebody else is suspicious of what's going on around us in the world. So you don't feel like you're crazy, and you feel like you might be able to make a difference.
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I now find magic in the mundane. I'm also more creative - better able to look beyond the obvious and come up with new story angles.
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I don't just want to be the girl boys get excited about, I have no desire for people to see me in a sexy way. I won't do nudity ever.
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'We pride ourselves on trying to put on the best show we can and we're not afraid to say that we happen to be the best live band in the world'
