Top 100 Quotes About Shearer
#1. Alan Shearer has done very well for us, considering his age. We have introduced some movement into his game because he has got two good legs now. Last season he played with one leg.
Bobby Robson
#2. All that time hanging around the sets, watching Norma Shearer make the most of her three expressions, was a help.
Joan Crawford
#3. Shearer could be at 100 per cent fitness, but not peak fitness.
Graham Taylor
#4. If people are going to write bad things about me because it makes news, I can brush it aside because I've had this for 10 years. I'm big enough and strong enough to cope with it. It's what comes with being Alan Shearer.
Alan Shearer
#5. Shearer could be at 100% fitness, but not peak fitness.
Graham Taylor
#6. There was a saying around MGM: "Norma Shearer got the productions, Greta Garbo supplied the art, and Joan Crawford made the money to pay for both".
Joan Crawford
#7. Today's top players only want to play in London or for Manchester United. That's what happened when I tried to sign Alan Shearer and he went to Blackburn.
Graeme Souness
#8. Harry [Shearer] and I had an idea to do a movie about rock 'n' roll from the roadies' perspective, from backstage. Then Meat Loaf came out with a movie called Roadie and we thought, "Oh, we can't do that now." So we kind of discarded the idea.
Rob Reiner
#9. My father was a sheep shearer, so I grew up in a caravan; we'd go around from shearing shed to shearing shed. My mother always wanted us to be educated, so I went to a school.
Jason Clarke
#10. In Beautiful, Mr. Shearer writes with humor and has fun with some of the glorious nonsense of Lamarr's movies.
Jeanine Basinger
#11. I have had interviews and got close to taking a managerial job. I would consider going back into football.
Alan Shearer
#12. I've turned down Barcelona, Inter Milan, Juventus and Manchester United to play here. I hope everyone already knows how much it means to me to play for Newcastle United.
Alan Shearer
#14. You have to go out onto the pitch feeling good about yourself. That can give you that extra 30 per cent.
Alan Shearer
#15. Step out of your comfort zone, and then applaud yourself for your bravery.
Caroline A. Shearer
#16. When we talk about our problems, we create more of them. When we talk about solutions and positive responses, we create more solutions and positive responses.
Caroline A. Shearer
#17. I don't watch a lot of TV, to be honest. With three kids I have my hands full.
Alan Shearer
#18. That was Embassy Pictures, they went bankrupt shortly after This is Spinal Tap came out.
Harry Shearer
#19. I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines, nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.
Harry Shearer
#20. I would play in any number shirt for Newcastle United, but the No 9 at Newcastle is something very special and I've always wanted to wear it. I mentioned it to the manager, he mentioned it to Les and Les has been very kind and given it to me.
Alan Shearer
#21. Somehow or other I always got myself rigged up in something sensational.
Norma Shearer
#22. I didn't have a lot of independent film connections. It really took until the digital film revolution came along that I realized that I could do it myself.
Harry Shearer
#23. One accusation you can't throw at me is that I've always done my best.
Alan Shearer
#24. Any change of my style, the way I've played for 10 years, will not be a drastic one. Yes, I've always given as good as I've got; as a forward you have to do that because, if you don't look after yourself, you might find yourself being thrown in a hole and buried.
Alan Shearer
#25. [C. Montgomery] Burns is much purer evil than Nixon was. I think it's the purity of his evil that attracts me as a comic character.
Harry Shearer
#26. Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the wrong. Sometime in life you will have been all of these.
Lloyd Shearer
#27. An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other.
Norma Shearer
#29. In the year and a half I was on SNL, I never saw anybody ad lib anything. For a very good reason - the director cut according to the script. So, if you ad libbed, you'd be off mike and off camera.
Harry Shearer
#30. I want to be around when Newcastle win a trophy because I want to see this place lift off. It will be one hell of a party for a long time.
Alan Shearer
#31. I'm lucky and I appreciate that. I love every minute of every day.
Alan Shearer
#32. A woman today is good, or she is bad, according to the way she does a thing - and not because of the thing itself.
Norma Shearer
#33. I made no secret of the fact I'd love to stay in football and to do that, you need badges. I'm starting them and that's the next step for me - to continue this next season.
Alan Shearer
#34. My parents didn't want me to be a regular in a series. I was a working actor from time to time but they thought was a little too much being a star of a series. They wanted me to have a slightly more normal childhood.
Harry Shearer
#35. Anybody who says that having the public recognize them and relate to the work they do is irritating should get into another line of work. You're in this business for people to know what you do and like it.
Harry Shearer
#36. A movie script more than anything else is a plan of action for the crew. Everybody in the crew looks at the script to see what they're going to do. It has to contain where you are, and how many people are there, and what they do, and what time of day it is, and what time of year it is.
Harry Shearer
#37. Every 'problem' we face is only a problem because of the way our mind (ego) perceives it. It is, in fact, not a problem at all but rather a lesson we are providing to ourselves in order to evolve.
Caroline A. Shearer
#38. Privilege has its own way of seeing the world.
Harry Shearer
#39. I didn't watch cartoons, I was too busy playing football.
Alan Shearer
#40. Scarlett O'Hara is going to be a thankless and difficult role. The part I'd like to play is Rhett Butler.
Norma Shearer
#41. Music often happens even faster than comedy in terms of the creation.
Harry Shearer
#42. Sometimes going in for a hard tackle generates a louder cheer than a great pass.
Alan Shearer
#43. If you ask footballers to pick out the player they most admire, so many of them will pick Paul Scholes.
Alan Shearer
#44. I don't know what I believe in. I try not to think about it. I don't want to think about it.
Alan Shearer
#45. I always practise penalties, but what people don't understand is that you can never recreate that pressure situation that you're under.
Alan Shearer
#46. If people don't like my style, then I can't do anything about that. I have been like that since I first entered into the game and it hasn't done me bad in the past, so I am not going to change now.
Alan Shearer
#48. Here's a guy [Richard Nixon] who had no gift for small talk, never liked to be around strangers, was physically awkward, and he goes into the one business that calls for ease with strangers and a gift for small talk.
Harry Shearer
#49. Somewhere along the line you've got to do your apprenticeship. But I'd want half a chance of being successful at it.
Alan Shearer
#51. When I did that first movie, it was the introduction to all the set-up time and the waiting time that's endemic in motion pictures, and the repetition.
Harry Shearer
#53. First is first. That's the way I was brought up. Second or third are nowhere.
Alan Shearer
#54. I always dreamed about scoring at St. James' Park. I fancied my chances and the ball flew into the net. I was ecstatic.
Alan Shearer
#55. I would come back to public school for usually about half the year. It was actually better for me to be out of school a lot, because I was two years younger than everybody, which is a bad situation, socially.
Harry Shearer
#56. One of the biggest fears of players in a shootout is letting your teammates down.
Alan Shearer
#57. I miss walking out of the tunnel, the 90 minutes and the adrenalin rush that I'll never, ever replace.
Alan Shearer
#58. I happened upon a memoir by a midlevel White House staffer, and he had been in the room that [Nixon's last] night [in office]. This guy's memoir told me what Nixon's last words were. And they were, on August 8, 1974, to the crew: "Have a Merry Christmas, fellas!" That was just so bizarre.
Harry Shearer
#59. You only get one chance of an England debut.
Alan Shearer
#60. At times they don't like you to kick them and they feel you're not allowed to kick them.
Alan Shearer
#61. I have a very strong visual memory of the first time I made him laugh. That was remarkable. I was like, "Oh, God, I just made Jack Benny laugh."
Harry Shearer
#62. I've got an odd, negative bond with C. Montgomery Burns. He reminds a lot of people of bosses they've worked for. He certainly reminds me of someone I'm working for
Harry Shearer
#63. The Simpsons will end as soon as Fox is able to find an 8 p.m. comedy hit to replace it - so I give us another 50 years.
Harry Shearer
#64. The hardest work most of us do is maintaining the appearance of normality.
Harry Shearer
#65. For me, Paul Scholes has been the best midfield player in the Premier League. By a mile. He has the lot. He scores and creates goals, he can pass the ball, he can head it, and rounds all this off with a competitive streak.
Alan Shearer
#66. Lampard picks his head up and knocks it out to the wing.
Alan Shearer
#67. Never let them see you in public after you've turned thirty-five. You're finished if you do!
Norma Shearer
#68. We're very pleased to be on a show which is known and loved around the world.
Harry Shearer
#69. As a kid, I really did want to hang out with the grownups, so it was hanging out with the hippest grownups in the world. This was the nicest bunch of people I've worked with in show business, with the exception of the people around A Mighty Wind. It really was a wonderful eight years.
Harry Shearer
#70. Some players are criticised for having no loyalty. Well, I wanted to go back home and play for the club I supported. I don't think that's a crime.
Alan Shearer
#71. It doesn't matter that I didn't win a trophy because I did it my way and I lived the dream.
Alan Shearer
#73. If Nixon were a Republican senator today, he would have been primaried out.
Harry Shearer
#74. When it moved to Friday night it disappeared, when they find another show that can do what The Simpsons does, they will be delighted to do cancel The Simpsons.
Harry Shearer
#75. If you take the money away, a lot of the footballers would still be playing football. So, the money has nothing to do with it.
Alan Shearer
#76. I always chose sophisticated parts because you can't really be interesting as a young girl or outstanding as an ingenue.
Norma Shearer
#77. I have always said that the best feeling in the world is scoring a goal. Don't tell my missus that, but it is. When that ball hits the back of the net, it is fantastic.
Alan Shearer
#78. I've got a great life that I really enjoy. But there is something chewing at me inside: that adrenaline rush from football, I miss that.
Alan Shearer
#79. The FA Cup means a lot. There is a real passion here for the competition which you don't get elsewhere. It's a love affair. It's part and parcel of living up here. People might think I'm daft, but I'm not wrong; I'd rather win the Cup than the League.
Alan Shearer
#80. You know, radio was a really easy way to do the shows. You'd come in, do a read-through, there'd be a few rehearsals, then you'd come the night of the show and do it in front of the audience and then go home.
Harry Shearer
#81. Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.
Norma Shearer
#82. Well Washington DC what are you going to do. They think the capitol steps are the state of the art in comedy. You try to drag them into the 20th century let alone the 21st and they refuse to come with you.
Harry Shearer
#83. For a guy who is always banging on about the masculine virtues, Nixon had this remarkable proclivity for very dainty gestures.
Harry Shearer
#84. Nothing's black or white in our country - you're either brilliant or you're hopeless
Alan Shearer
#85. When I go home every night, I can look in the mirror and say I have given 110 per cent for Newcastle United. If people aren't happy with that, I can't give any more.
Alan Shearer
#86. Whenever I have any spare time I have a game of golf.
Alan Shearer
#87. I have never wanted to go abroad before but you can never say never in football.
Alan Shearer
#88. Democrats always like to brag that their guys are smarter than the opponents and Republicans always like to brag that their guys are more moral than the opponents. But if you're looking for morals in politics you're looking for bananas in the cheese department.
Harry Shearer
#89. When I was growing up, we learned our history almost as lives of the saints. And it came as a shock, "Oh, Jefferson had slaves?" It always comes as a shock to us that elevation to the White House didn't somehow cleanse them of all their deep character flaws.
Harry Shearer
#90. Listening to your ego brings your vibration down; listening to your higher self brings your vibration up.
Caroline A. Shearer
#91. But that's always the way, isn't it? It's easy to be sensible for other people, but you can't always be sensible for yourself.
Alex Shearer
#92. I like the tag of being the world's most expensive player. It's an honour and a privilege.
Alan Shearer
#93. I don't know what I'd have become if I hadn't been a footballer; I wrote down 'dustbin man' on a careers questionnaire at school till my dad made me change it to 'joiner'.
Alan Shearer
#94. The first thing you've got to do is know your craft, and then you can do something else with it.
Harry Shearer
#95. My motto in life is 'if you give 100 per cent then no one can ask any more'.
Alan Shearer
#96. No money in the world can buy a white England shirt.
Alan Shearer
#97. I'd like to play for Newcastle United before I retire. The club is in my blood.
Alan Shearer
#98. I wasn't playing Nixon's satirical stick figure. I was playing Nixon the man. As an actor, I felt I had to get to the deeply flawed humanity of the guy.
Harry Shearer
#99. I think the British learn their history through the prism of this gallery of grotesques known as the royals.
Harry Shearer
#100. The last president we had was the smartest guy anyone could remember and he did the dumbest thing anyone has ever seen in the White House so go figure.
Harry Shearer
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