Kelsey Grammer Quotes

There was one thing I loved a little bit more than surfing - and that was acting.

Kelsey Grammer

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• It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve - not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country - those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy - the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Country
  • Happy

• My dad's family were pretty working class, actually.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Family
  • Pretty
  • Dad

• Decisions are never easy. If they were easy, they wouldn't be called decisions.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Never
  • Easy
  • Decisions

• I play to see what I can accomplish. I don't play for fun. I play to see how good I can be.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • Good
  • Fun
  • I Can

• My wife will automatically quote and compare the price of diesel at every petrol station we drive by, like she's got oil-based Tourette's.

  

  Ian Watson
  • She
  • Wife
  • Drive

• If I were a young man today, I might be lured into the moviemaking industry. You can really make a statement there.

  

  James A. Michener
  • Today

• It's something nice to be number one, of course, but there are much more expectations.

  

  Angelique Kerber
  • Nice

• Nyasaland was the perfect country for a volunteer. It was friendly and destitute; it was small and out-of-the-way. It had all of Africa's problems - poverty, ignorance, disease.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Country
  • Small
  • Perfect

• The TV schedule is fantastic. It allows you to have a life. Theater actors are so disciplined - especially if you're doing musicals, you have to be in shape physically, mentally, and have to be on your game all the time. That's exhausting. On TV, especially a sitcom, you have a lot of free time to play.

  

  Neil Patrick Harris
  • Life
  • Time
  • Game

• People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own selfish interests.

  

  James Bovard
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• I can understand why some of these drummers and bass players become cult figures with all of their equipment and the incredible amount of technique they have. But there's very little that I think satisfies you intellectually or emotionally.

  

  Ken Burns
  • Why

• The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin's.

  

  Marianne Faithfull
  • God

• I listen to all types of music so I'm influenced by everything.

  

  Big Boi
  • Music

• My kids, they're like nine or ten years old right now so you give 'em responsibilities just to keep them up on things. It ain't just all about getting on the skateboard or putting your Heelys on, and swimming in the pool all the time. You gotta do stuff like wash dishes, take the trash out, feed the dog.

  

  Big Boi
  • Up
  • Time
  • Kids

• On 'Shrek,' Eddie Murphy was locked in as the donkey before we'd even designed the donkey.

  

  Kelly Asbury

• I mean, I would love to have the career Joan Baez is having in Europe right now, but God knows I don't begrudge her that career.

  

  Janis Ian
  • God
  • Career

• I put in a lot of effort for a show like 'Jhansi Ki Rani,' and it worked. I think I am very lucky I have done that show!

  

  Kratika Sengar
  • Done
  • Effort

• I can enjoy a vacation as well as the next person, as long as I know it's a vacation and not a premature retirement.

  

  Mary Crosby
  • Long
  • Retirement
  • Vacation

• The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.

  

  Bill Russell
  • Believe

• If you win, if you make money. If you do quality work, then other people of color, whatever color that is, can get in the door.

  

  Antoine Fuqua
  • People
  • Work
  • Money

• The best version of surfing is not competing, I think. It's just... it's perfect. You're perfectly present. You're perfectly in the moment. You're perfectly not thinking about anything else in the world. You're just surfing. You're surfing away with your friends or your family, and that's it. You're just there.

  

  John John Florence
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Family

• If I have free time, I want to go to the beach, walk around a shopping mall, go grocery shopping. Live a little bit of life.

  

  James Wan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• I love The Miz. His approach to his job is second to none; it's extremely important to him that he prepares on a daily basis. I travel with him and from the moment he gets up to the moment he goes to bed it's all WWE, all sports entertainment. He keeps his body in shape and he is a true champion in the ring and out. He's a great representative of the company and I'm learning a lot from him, not only on TV but outside as well.

  

  Alex Riley
  • Important
  • Moments
  • Sports

• There was one thing I loved a little bit more than surfing - and that was acting.

  

  Kelsey Grammer
  • Surfing