Jake Busey Quotes

#1. I just didn't lock into being in the right role in the right big movie and it going huge. I did never really make the leap to hyperspace. Who's to say that it can't still happen. I just enjoy working, and feel fortunate to be doing the things that I am doing.

Jake Busey

#2. Let's say you would see me in a lot more big movies had I done movies that I'd been asked to do playing bad guys. Now that I have a child on the way, I think that you'll probably be seeing me play more bad guys. If that's what's going to put bread on the table, that's what I'm going to be doing.

Jake Busey

#3. 'Swingers' was a little closer to what my real experience was. 'Crazy Eyes,' whoever's experience that is, I'm telling you what, that was one heck of a ride.

Jake Busey

#4. I like showing the gritty truthful dark side of humanity.

Jake Busey

#5. Beauty is not a size. You can be a size 2 and be curvy or you can be a size 24 and be curvy Curvy is being a woman.

Denise Bidot

#6. The first film I was in was called 'Straight Time.' I was five-years old, and I was playing my father's son.

Jake Busey

#7. The seeds from Ramanujan's garden have been blowing on the wind and have been sprouting all over the landscape.
[On the stimulating effects of Ramanujan's mathematical legacy.]

Freeman Dyson

#8. How great it is when we come to know that times of disappointment can be followed by joy; that guilt over falling short of our ideals can be replaced by pride in doing all that we can; and that anger can be channeled into creative achievements ... and into dreams that we can make come true.

Fred Rogers

#9. I have a band called Sons of the Lawless.

Jake Busey

#10. I had my airplane, and I'd use it as a car whenever I could. If the drive was going to be longer than an hour, I was flying the plane instead. And in California, it's really easy to have a drive longer than an hour.

Jake Busey

#11. I had some downtime with my career and ... I got complacent.

Jake Busey

#12. Give it your all. Give it away. Your desires are being held in the hand of the cosmos with incredibly sturdy care. Life is not testing you. She is rooting for you.

Danielle LaPorte

#13. I'm looking at everything with a clear eye and an attitude of acceptance rather than skepticism. I realized, this isn't a career - this is my life. This is what I do. It doesn't matter what the size of the role is. It matter that you're enjoying yourself. And I'm loving it.

Jake Busey

#14. Many of us are speeding up and skipping over, missing the important as we scan for the urgent. The irony is that in our anxiety toward not missing out, we are losing the most meaningful moments of life.

Jeff Goins

#15. I don't have a favorite role because there's been so many films that I've done that I've really enjoyed.

Jake Busey

#16. Science tells us the more intelligent a person is, the less conservative and more liberal they become. ... which doesn't say anything good about violent, hate-mongering conservatives.

Christina Engela

#17. I'm purely most happy on a film or television set. That's where I feel I am home.

Jake Busey

#18. Invest in yourself now and reap the dividends day after day after month after year.

Jack LaLanne

#19. I go on at least 2-3 auditions a week in the pursuit of more work. So I'm constantly working on material and constantly honing and trying to perfect a craft that is never perfectible - it's always new, and it's always different. It's always a work in progress.

Jake Busey

#20. Purpose is a higher level of living, where you live more for others than you live for yourself.

Bidemi Mark-Mordi

#21. If you're not in someone's face, they're not going to remember you. So get yourself back into an acting class; get a coach. Do those things you did when you were 20 and wanted it so bad.

Jake Busey

#22. Oh yeah, 'Starship Troopers' was one of the best experiences of my life, and I made some lifelong friends.

Jake Busey

#23. My father is a man with a great capacity for love and a huge heart, which has led him to be somewhat of a lothario, but at the same time, he's genuine. He's far more loving and kind than I could ever be. As selfish as he is, he is an extremely giving person. He's just 100 percent in every direction.

Jake Busey

#24. The Cylons are such a frightening concept - not knowing who is real. No way.

Mary McDonnell

#25. Being a dad is the best thing that ever happened to me. It changed my life entirely.

Jake Busey

#26. I love ... What's gratifying to me is when you make/create a character and a human being, a person who lives entirely and who has their own existence, just merely from the words on a page.

Jake Busey

#27. It's hard to overstate how utterly mad it is for a Fed chairman in the age of the global economy to claim that a weak currency only affects tourists. It's a little bit like saying a forest fire only really sucks if you're a woodpecker.

Matt Taibbi

#28. Oh, my father's had a huge, immense impact on my career. I grew up on movie sets that he was working on, and it just become a part or was a part, was the only part of my life because I spent my whole childhood traveling and being on film sets.

Jake Busey

#29. Where TV lets you down, I'm discovering, is by not convincing you how things really work in the world. Like, do buses stop anywhere along the road, to pick up any kind of asshole, or do you have to be at a regular bus stop?

D.B.C. Pierre

#30. Life is unpredictable when you get non-standard behavior patterns.

Jake Busey

#31. The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, "The work of Chloe." How could she have expressed herself more plainly?

Martial

#32. Let us bring peace to the world by dreaming of peace.

Debasish Mridha

#33. I am tired of myself tonight. I should like to be somebody else.

Oscar Wilde