Robert Moses Quotes

I don't think of myself as an actress. I still think I'm fannying around in my mum's front room.

In essence, I'm a sophisticated cotton picker.

I'm no genius.

I just do what I do. It's not something that should be revered as something that's great.

I class myself as a manual laborer.

No matter how much money you make, no matter how famous you are, you're not above going outside and cutting trees. I do it all the time.

I'm an active participation guy. No matter how much money you make, no matter how famous you are, you're not above going outside and cutting trees. I do it all the time.

I'm just a person. I'm not anything!

I'm just a worker.

I never claimed to be anything more than a nice guy and an athlete.

Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.

If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before. I mean, I produced a Frank Sinatra special - Elizabeth Taylor, with Michael Jackson, Gregory Peck, I won't even take a picture.

I'm not Amy the star, I'm Amy the girl with the guitar.

[Suggesting her epitaph:] This is too deep for me.

I'm just a man, not a hero. just a boy, who wants to sing this song.

The minute you get too big to mop a floor or wipe a counter, that's the exact minute you have life f**ked up.

I'm just a small guy so if I'd dropped any more weight it would have been a bit ridiculous.

I'm just an Orange County girl from a loving family making music with my friends. It's not really that big of a deal.

Playing golf is not hot work. Cutting sugar cane for a dollar a day - that's hot work. Hotter than my first wrist watch.

Whether arrogantly or what, I view myself simply as an actor.

Honest work is much better than a mansion.

It is the duty of a great person so to demean himself, as that whatever endowments he may have, he may appear to value himself upon no qualities but such as any man may arrive at.

I write for the unlearned about things in which I am unlearned myself.

I have tried my best to give the nation everything I had in me. There are probably a million people who could have done the job better than I did it, but I had the job and I always quote an epitaph on a tombstone in a cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona: "Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damndest."

All I have is natural ability.