Tom DeLonge (Thomas Matthew DeLonge Jr.) Quotes

We don't want to act like adults. Anybody who can stay in a state of adolescence will be much better off later on. Look at people who are working nine-to-five jobs out of college, and look at professional skateboarders or guys in punk bands. See who's having more fun.

Tom DeLonge Blink-182

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• There's nothing more fun to me than new characters and a new world.

  

  Adam McKay
  • World
  • Fun
  • Me

• I was just mind-blown to find that New Orleans is just so much more fun and interesting than I had ever thought.

  

  Harold Perrineau
  • Mind
  • Fun
  • Interesting

• With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City.

  

  Karolyn Grimes
  • School
  • Help
  • High

• It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • World
  • Money
  • Fun

• One half who graduate from college never read another book.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Book
  • College
  • Graduation

• It was always fun to skate with Paul Wylie and Paul Martini.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Fun
  • Always
  • Martini

• If something is personal to you, you are much more likely to act.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • You
  • Act
  • Personal

• If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • Like
  • Act
  • Medical

• 'St. Trinian's' is probably taking it to the extreme, but in essence it's saying, 'If you be yourself, you can do whatever you want,' and it's sort of a fun message.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Fun
  • Yourself
  • Be Yourself

• How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Play
  • Film
  • Act

• You have to understand that while I pre-plot the meta story of a given book, I often have no idea of what will happen on the next page, let alone the next chapter. That's what makes it fun for me; I write the books the same way many people read them.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • People
  • Book
  • Fun

• My favorite Broadway show day-to-day, just for the experience, was 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.' The people were so much fun. It was a great show.

  

  Barrett Foa
  • People
  • Great
  • Experience

• It was really fun working with Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz on set.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Fun
  • Working
  • Jamie

• People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'

  

  Adam Carolla
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• I'd love the opportunity to do something where I could really give my opinion, my feisty side - it'd be fun!

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Love
  • Fun
  • Opportunity

• I just kept telling myself that ultimately, the money that my grandparents had put away to go into my college fund, that they were investing for me to go to school and get this education, it had to be worth something.

  

  G-Eazy
  • School
  • Money
  • Education

• I think a lot of actors will tell you that playing a villain can be more fun than playing the straight and narrow good guy.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Think

• There's always a dinner to go to. There're always loads of people around. I was having fun working with my friends. For a while it all just kind of rolled together in a great way.

  

  Kate Moss
  • People
  • Great
  • Friends

• For me, acting is doing.

  

  Pierce Brosnan

• Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Act
  • Songwriting
  • Unsightly

• To be honest dinner conversations was the worst bit about being a child and listening to the boring people around me.

  

  Prince Harry
  • People
  • Listening

• I do get antsy if I haven't got lines to learn, a character to play. But yes, I do take holidays.

  

  Mark Strong
  • Character

• Insects were scurrying about in the shade cast by the grass, and the lawn was a huge monotonous forest of thousands of little green blades, all equal, all alike, hiding the world from each other. Anguished, she thought, "I don't want to be just another blade of grass."

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Grass
  • Blades

• We don't want to act like adults. Anybody who can stay in a state of adolescence will be much better off later on. Look at people who are working nine-to-five jobs out of college, and look at professional skateboarders or guys in punk bands. See who's having more fun.

  

  Tom DeLonge Blink-182
  • Fun
  • College
  • Jobs