Colin Hay Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.
-
Men look like pandas when they try and put make-up on.
-
I have great stories. I am going to write a book.
-
I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.
-
It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.
-
I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it to. Fight the way I know how to fight. Whatever comes up, comes up.
-
I think there's a karmic purpose that souls make before they decide to come into people's bodies and become someone's parent, or become someone's child. Maybe my dad disappearing was his way of giving me material with which to work, or a predisposition to feel heightened emotions.
-
If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
-
Owing to the difficulty of obtaining horses, Mr. Henry returns from this place. In descending the Mississippi I will request him to pay his respects to you.
-
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
-
We must ensure that technology is accessible, affordable, and adds value.
-
I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
-
I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down.
-
Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.
-
I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
-
London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
-
I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.
-
I'd love to be on scripted TV shows and movies, but not just one - I want to be in a lot of them! I'd also love to sing and possibly be on Broadway. I want to do it all.
-
I felt like the Germans were being mean to me at training, but they were actually just trying to help. I learned really quick - which made me a better player. I'm appreciative of the way they treated me. It's just the language and, of course, as an American, I had to learn that. No offense to them; I love them to death, and I love my teammates.
-
I remember being 4 or 5 years old, sitting in front of a record player with headphones listening to my dad's albums,
-
I didn't end up some sad, tragic guy singing in a lounge somewhere. I never went out and took big money for nostalgia and became like an oldies act.
-
In animation, you do so much planning ahead of time; it has to be so precise.
-
Even if the script's well written there's something about the life of an improvisation that resonates better than a written word, sometimes.
-
I just want to be a better guitar player, really.
