Ric Ocasek (Richard Theodore Otcasek) Quotes
I could never be a country person, sitting around trees trying to write a song. I would rather be in the middle of society, whether it's growing or crumbling.
Quotes to Explore
-
All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.
-
I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.
-
There are as many ways to help another human being as there are people in need of help. For some, the urgent need is as basic as food and water. For others, it is an opportunity to develop a talent, realize an idea, and reach one's full potential.
-
Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
-
Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
-
We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.
-
I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
-
In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation.
-
I wouldn't mind going somewhere and taking a president position and signing acts and taking the attention off of me and taking what I've learned in my career and applying that to another person's.
-
As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming an actor and then working with people who to a certain extent had had a leg up. I never had that advantage. It's less an artistic need to express myself and more a need to prove myself.
-
Rome will exist as long as the Coliseum does; when the Coliseum falls, so will Rome; when Rome falls, so will the world.
-
To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.
-
On a professional side, you've got a tough problem to fix, Geoff Miller's going to do it, and he's always going to do it to very high standards, and he's always going to be on the side of right. He's always talking about 'what right looks like' - just a phrase he would always use.
-
I'm obsessed with Marcus Mumford. I've got to know him recently; he's amazing.
-
I did not come to NASA to make history.
-
I have a number of vices, one of which is moderation.
-
When it's all said and done, I want to look back on my career and say I did numerous things.
-
As a teenager, I had big breasts for my age, and my friends cracked on me a lot.
-
I'm still in touch with a lot people who continue to serve our country well.
-
I moved to Cardiff when I was 17 and never needed a car. When I came to L.A. for my first job there, I needed a car, so I had to pass my driving test.
-
The one thing I've always done as an author is talk to my publicists. Because they have all the best stories - and they have all the dirt on other, more famous and important writers. They're not supposed to talk about it, but sometimes you can get awesome little tidbits from them.
-
As a kid, I always liked reading stories where I had a power-projection fantasy. I wanted to be inside of a story where I had power and influence, was going to rise to power, was going to somehow influence my society.
-
The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose.
-
I could never be a country person, sitting around trees trying to write a song. I would rather be in the middle of society, whether it's growing or crumbling.
