Ed O'brien Quotes

#1. My goal was never to win awards. Mine was let me get to a place where I don't have to work. I don't have to do anything I don't want to.

Ed O'Neill

#2. There is always some universal proportion, but along with that there are some places where special things happen. Ireland, for example. I've always felt it's interesting to play there. Maybe they just drink more than anybody else.

Ed O'Brien

#3. I'd loved to wear jeans and t-shirts, but everybody was in the peace movement back then. And that was my ploy. I had to be careful not to say things like 'I like meat.' Actually I just wanted to drink beer and to screw.

Ed O'Neill

#4. I wish I didn't get searched when I come through customs.
I wish Christians stop beefin' with Muslims,
Wish the poor didn't have to take welfare,
Wish America had universal health care ...
Cause ain't no help here.

Ed O.G.

#5. By the way, six A.M.? Not a real great time for me; you know, I'm a comic. I get off work at two. Six A.M., I'm a little grumpy. Six A.M., I'm a little P.O.ed. Six A.M., I'm like a vampire with a paper route.

Christopher Titus

#6. Not in the mornings, I'm always so tired in the morning.

Ed O'Brien

#7. Security was another reason. You never know what can happen to you when you earn a lot of money.

Ed O'Neill

#8. I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a child.

Ed O'Brien

#9. I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.

Ed O'Brien

#10. One of the first things they teach you in Driver's Ed is where to put your hands on the steering wheel. They tell you put 'em at ten o'clock and two o' clock. Never mind that . I put mine at 9:45 and 2:17. Gives me an extra half hour to get where I'm goin'.

George Carlin

#11. But for the first time, we haven't made a huge leap forward in sound from our last album. Fans who own Kid A should be able to get their heads around it.

Ed O'Brien

#12. I'd watch my father get up at 5 o'clock and go down to the Eastern Market in Detroit to do the shopping for his restaurant, and get that business going and then go out on his vending machine business.

Ed Bradley

#13. I prefer to underplay scenes rather than, you know, be big and drive them. And sometimes you have to do that, but I like the more natural styles.

Ed O'Neill

#14. He could no longer be that Ed Larsen, but, through a lack of imagination or just sheer exhaustion, he couldn't come up with a new one, and faked his way through the days like a bad actor ...

Stewart O'Nan

#15. Be a father, if not, why bother, son?
A boy can make 'em, but a man can raise one.
If you did it, admit it and stick with it.

Ed O.G.

#16. Time magazine has selected their person of the year. Guess what, it's President-elect Barack Obama. Yeah, ironically, Ebony magazine announced their person of the year, and it's Ed Begley Jr.

Conan O'Brien

#17. So we are not doing the traditional album, tour, album, tour, album, tour anymore. We're going to tour when we want to, regardless of whether we've got a record out.

Ed O'Brien

#18. Music, at the end of the day, is communicating something - emotion, a feeling, a rite of passage, where you are in life.

Ed O'Brien

#19. I took a plane from New York City to Los Angeles for an audition. I met all the people. After that, I was told to have another audition, but I didn't want to go there again.

Ed O'Neill

#20. It's really weird to be playing chords again. Haven't played chords for a long time. I realised I haven't played chord changes since OK Computer and stuff like that.

Ed O'Brien

#21. That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'

Ed O'Neill

#22. What had disappointed me at the time of the last tour, was to go on a worldwide tour, we were at some incredible places and we couldn't enjoy it, hadn't the time.

Ed O'Brien

#23. There was this discussion to know how long the human ear was really receptive to the music. A 74 minute CD is too long. We thought about making two CDs, 35 minutes each ... But the songs need to breathe.

Ed O'Brien

#24. I used to be a wonderful auditioner. When I was living in New York, I'd audition every day. And I like to audition. But then it got to a point where I didn't like it anymore. So once it got to there and I also knew more about the business and I thought, "I can't do this anymore."

Ed O'Neill

#25. I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school.

Ed O'Neill

#26. For a band like us tracklisting is a massive, massive task.

Ed O'Brien

#27. God works in different ways and it shows ...
And everybody knows, love comes and goes.

Ed O.G.

#28. When I read the pilot 'for Married with Children', it just reminded me of my Uncle Joe ... just a self-deprecating kind of guy. He'd come home from work, and the wife would maybe say 'I ran over the dog this morning in the driveway'. And he would say 'Fine, what's for dinner?

Ed O'Neill

#29. What is so refreshing playing with Neil Finn and all his friends is these people think exactly the same - regular people doing their thing and separating the music from the business.

Ed O'Brien

#30. We're not spokespeople, we're musicians.

Ed O'Brien

#31. we see it as a means of sharing responsibility for acting together in pursuit of the common good.

Ed O'Malley

#32. I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess.

Ed O'Neill

#33. We are a weird bunch, we are very disparate.

Ed O'Brien

#34. I channel surf like probably most people.

Ed O'Neill

#35. The next name on the list is Ed Valiantbrue, which doesn't have an O in it anyway."
"O!" Sunny shrieked.
"O!" Klaus agreed.
"O!" Sunny insisted.
"Oh!" Klaus cried. "I see what you mean! If it doesn't have am O in it, it can't be an anagram of Violet Baudelaire.

Lemony Snicket

#36. In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.

Ed O'Neill

#37. We are different people - you get a different take on the band whoever you speak to. Somehow, at the end of it, it goes through the filtering process and out comes the Radiohead thing.

Ed O'Brien

#38. In terms of comedians, I loved, growing up, Jonathan Winters, Sid Caesar, Jackie Gleason, Phil Silvers, Carol Burnett, all those people.

Ed O'Neill

#39. I always found that drama, really good drama, has a lot of comedy in it.

Ed O'Neill

#40. The thing is, it really did take us too long to get these recordings done. We've had our rough times in the studio in the past, but after four weeks most of the material would have been recorded. This time it seemed like it just goes on and on.

Ed O'Brien

#41. Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.

Ed O'Brien

#42. I say I'm the best actor in America who's never done a movie.

Ed O'Neill

#43. I'm good friends with Jay Leno, good friends with Ed O'Neill, Melanie Fiona and Russell Simmons.

Kevin Hart

#44. Back then I said to myself 'screw football.' Actually I just took part in this camp as there was nothing better for me to do. They also didn't draft me because they thought I was too wild and undisciplined.

Ed O'Neill

#45. It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.

Ed O'Brien

#46. Of the 25 songs we've recorded there were 24 that we wanted to have on an album. That wouldn't have worked. So when one of our wise managers suggested the idea of considering two different album, it cleared the way for us.

Ed O'Brien

#47. Courier 12 is the Type-O blood of fonts - works just as good for a 'N.Y. Times' op-ed as a screenplay or a short story.

Andrew Vachss

#48. We're not aware of fame itself, we're not that kind of band.

Ed O'Brien

#49. There was a time ... when people didn't go out of their house on Tuesday night at eight o'clock because Milton Berle was on.

Ed McMahon

#50. But we will play 6, 7 new songs each evening, approximately a third in the concert. I think it's a good balance. It will be very interesting to see the public's reaction. But i think when we'll play the very first new piece, we will be scared.

Ed O'Brien

#51. I was in Africa once. I was in Kenya. I got off the plane, and I thought, 'Africa ... ' Some guy in a dashiki said, 'Mr. Bundy. Oh my God, it's you.'

Ed O'Neill

#52. All this flying around got on my nerves. But then I gave the script to Cathy to get her opinion. When she started to laugh, it was like 'That's it!'. I went to LA and I got the part.

Ed O'Neill

#53. I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.

Ed O'Brien

#54. If you want something good to come out of something, you have to put in a lot of effort. That involves a lot of hard work, and a lot of blood, sweat and tears sometimes. No different to anything, no different to what we all do.

Ed O'Brien

#55. I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was a very aggressive player. I wanted to be one of the best, but I just ended up as one of the good ones.

Ed O'Neill

#56. I knew I was a good stage actor but I had no idea about movies. And I wasn't a Paul Newman type of guy. That's why I thought the stage is just right for me.

Ed O'Neill

#57. Nothing burps better than bacon.

Ed O'Neill

#58. Everyone who's serious about what they're doing must be in constant motion forward.

Ed O'Brien

#59. At the end of OK Computer we were playing big, big arenas and it wasn't right. You can do those things occasionally but at the time it didn't feel right.

Ed O'Brien

#60. I got into television, and I'm a television guy, so I've never really had a movie career.

Ed O'Neill

#61. We don't hate the media, it's just that when there's too much of it we get bored, but it happens to every human being. I don't think we even hated the media by the time that movie was made. We were just tired.

Ed O'Brien

#62. Put on your adidas and step off.

Ed O.G.