I am the common man. I'm polite, I love my family and I play by the rules. And sometimes I get pushed around. That's my lifestyle, and that's what I try to bring to characters.

By: Eugene Levy

Related Quotes

It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away... view

By: Anne Tyler

Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life... view

By: Adelaide Anne Procter

He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life... view

By: Sophocles

Dean had just come from seeing his lawyer. That was the first time that I found out that he had consulted a lawyer. He wanted to tell me what he thought was going on, but he was writing it down as if my house was bugged. He acted like everything was bugged... view

By: Fred F. Fielding

I'd love to do a musical. I have a little list of them in my head... view

By: Swoosie Kurtz

I saw Redeye, and I love being scared and on the edge of my seat... view

By: Maria Menounos

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of... view

By: Jonathan Swift

I write music just for me. I'm certainly not good enough to do it on any kind of a level but I enjoy that time because it's quiet... view

By: Alex O'Loughlin

The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master.. view

By: Marquis De Custine

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like... view

By: Saint Augustine

I'm sure that you could go back and make a graph showing that all the killings of black males increased in times of economic difficulty. As a matter of fact, a black man was lynched last year... view

By: Ishmael Reed

The British may not know much about music, but they certainly loves the noise it makes... view

By: Richard Baker