Famous Quotes

Quotes by Beck

• I am going to take something I learned over in Israel. Their Independence Day is preceded the 24 hours before with Memorial Day, so it gives them a chance to serve and reflect and then celebrate. I am going to try to start that tradition here in America.
• I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that.
• I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.
• I don't fancy myself a political commentator. I hate politics. I hate it.
• I feel like I've done a bunch of period stuff and then a bunch of romantic comedies.
• I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.
• I got a poster from Columbia Records, and there's Miles Davis, Charlie Mingus, Ellington, Count Basie - everybody in that poster has died, I'm the only one left. And great players like Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan, it's hard to believe they're gone because we were all so close. But I believe in the future and the tradition will go on.
• I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.
• I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
• I have found there are four steps to change. 1. You must want it. 2. You must believe it. 3. You must live it. 4. You will become it.
• I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.
• I know acts and I'm not going to name names but these people sold ten million copies the first time and the second album sells three million and it's considered a failure and they're dropped and that's really a shame.
• I like a man who can be a real friend, has a good sense of humor, a good pair of shoes and a healthy gold card.
• I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.
• I played a lot of sports and it's the plays in basketball that weren't worked out that are the ones that are just fantastic that you remember. We don't know the power that's within our own bodies.
• I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: 'Checkout Time is 18 years.'
• I think what's dangerous about being an actor who does action movies is you think, 'Well, I can totally handle myself now.' But if my opponent didn't know the other half of the routine, I don't know how well I'd do.
• I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way.
• I was in Washington, D.C., on the morning show, by the time I was 18, programming a station by 19, No. 1 in the mornings. I think I was making, I don't know, a quarter of a million dollars by the time I was 25.
• I'm a dad, and I no longer see a way for my kids to even inherit the money that I'm making, let alone go out there, have an idea, and create it in their own lifetime.
• I'm a fan of action movies.
• I'm a strong person, I'm a strong family man, I'm a strong husband and a strong father.
• I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well. I believe in creative visualization. So for me to go to America - which I find such a positive place - well, I took to it like a duck to water.
• I'm always hoping for the nights that are inspired where you almost have an out of body experience.
• I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.
• I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.
• I'm the whitest guy you will ever meet. The first time I saw an African-American, my dad had to tell me to stop staring.
• I've exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
• If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
• If I ever have sex with someone I might be able to develop a sense of humor.
• If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?
• In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it.
• It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.
• It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.
• It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
• It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
• It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.