James Belushi Quotes

What I do know is that with a celebrity's death comes an avalanche of media, and in that media is most often another death - it takes a life that is filled with complicated talent, hope, success and drive and reduces it to the 'story.'

James Belushi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 15, 1954

Topics

LifeSuccessHopeDeathTalentKnow

Throughout the world, our insistence on individual freedom and opportunity has been at the bottom of what people think when they hear the very word 'American.'

Jim Webb

OpportunityFreedomPeopleWorld

Way back in the 1970s, I was eating a steak, and I looked down, and for the first time it suddenly looked like flesh to me - like a dead creature. In a flash, I realized that every time I ate any kind of meat, something had been killed for me, and I stopped eating all animals, not just cows and pigs but chickens and fish.

Joanna Lumley

TimeMeEatingFishBackDown

As governor, when I visited our troops in Kuwait and Iraq, I served them Thanksgiving dinner. It was a small gesture compared to their sacrifice.

Jennifer Granholm

SacrificeDinnerSmallThanksgiving

A volume of stories, bereft of continuity in plot and character, is often unified only by the writer's obsessiveness.

Max Apple

CharacterOnlyWriterPlotVolume

I was all personality and no talent.

Ruby Keeler

PersonalityTalentNo Talent

The only people who steal are thieves, and that's a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way to make the economic transaction valid. They want to return the favor, if you will... return the benefit and reciprocate.

Michael Nesmith

PeopleSmallYouCivilizationWant

Please don't ask which I enjoy more - acting or hosting - because I love them equally.

Michael Palin

LoveEnjoyActingMoreAskBecause

I write while I'm walking, on little scraps of paper. If I have a melody going, I can feel it for days.

Juan Felipe Herrera

FeelWalkingI CanWriteDaysGoing

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Joseph Joubert

PoetryYouFindWillBringSome

A lot of people forget how extraordinary Elway was handing the ball off to Terrell Davis, and those bootlegs, those naked bootlegs off of those stretch plays was devastating.

Jon Gruden

PeopleForgetExtraordinaryNaked

Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It's just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise.

Claire Danes

WorkDisciplinePeopleActingJust

I always joke around with my parents and say that if Hollywood doesn't work out I'll go to Broadway!

Claudia Lee

WorkParentsGoSayHollywoodOut

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