Clarence Clemons (The Big Man) Quotes

I've been pretty blessed. Sometimes it comes in disguise.

Clarence Clemons

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• Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Mirror
  • Face
  • Photographer

• My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Pretty

• When I did 'The Social Network', David Fincher told me that I managed to make a thankless character pretty awesome. I thought that was really cool because I think he's really cool.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Character
  • Pretty
  • Cool

• I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.

  

  Nate Lowman
  • Art
  • Pretty
  • Always

• I've been pretty lucky with neighbors. But back in 1998, I lived, like, literally next door to Wrigley Field in Chicago. And I had, like, 50,000 bad neighbors spread out over the course of one summer. I'm a diehard Cubs fan, but living right next to the ballpark, it's just - as you're trying to go to sleep, you can just, like, hear urination.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Trying
  • Bad
  • Pretty

• One of my favorite films is 'Pretty Woman.'

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Pretty
  • Woman
  • Favorite

• What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Pretty
  • Say
  • Potatoes

• Only a fortunate few seek the Beloved. Only a blessed few seek to enter the shrine of the heart.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Heart
  • Blessed
  • Seek

• The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody.

  

  Florence Ellinwood Allen
  • Bad
  • Nature
  • Conspiracy

• I have been blessed with roles that allow me to express something very personal at a specific time in my life. I seek them out; acting is my therapy.

  

  Victoria Clark
  • Life
  • Time
  • Blessed

• I was a pretty difficult teenager.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Pretty
  • Difficult
  • Teenager

• A lot of the television industry is so cookie-cutter. In general, there are so many shows that are easy and bland to watch. You can tune in at any time and know exactly where you are in the story arc because it's pretty much the same every week.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Same

• The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I'm on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Trying
  • Family
  • Truth

• 'Carrie' was a pretty big-budget movie at a real studio, with a director that had already done a bunch of things and had some notoriety, and Stephen King was the writer.

  

  P. J. Soles
  • Real
  • Done
  • Movie

• Honestly, with me, as long as I have a park to play basketball in, I'm pretty cool.

  

  Manny Montana
  • Long
  • Pretty
  • Cool

• I think if I was 5-foot-3, I would have been really popular and dated a lot more in high school. I didn't develop like the pretty girl.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • School
  • High
  • Pretty

• I tend to go with a daytime look, pretty natural, but I always fill in my eyebrows - I hate if I leave the gym and my eyebrows aren't done; I'm just very uncomfortable with myself.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Done
  • Pretty
  • Hate

• I pretty much move around wherever I like.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Pretty
  • Like
  • Wherever

• Touring is really a pretty lonely business.

  

  Eddy Arnold
  • Business
  • Pretty
  • Lonely

• We're a pretty open-book family; we kind of lead with our hearts. There's nothing to hide.

  

  Kerri Walsh Jennings
  • Family
  • Book
  • Pretty

• I know we got guys in here who can get it done, because it happens on some nights. But it doesn't happen in others. This has to start with me, because I am our top offensive player. If I can send the message about playing defense, then I'm pretty sure everyone else will follow.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Done
  • Pretty
  • Player

• I feel everyone is put here for a reason. Everyone has a calling. I always thought my real calling was to help other people.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • People
  • Real
  • Help

• Doing the right thing has power.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Power
  • The Right Thing

• I've been pretty blessed. Sometimes it comes in disguise.

  

  Clarence Clemons
  • Pretty
  • Blessed