Rug Peers did not do this. Look at it. A young trophy wife marries this guy for his money, she figures he hasn’t given her enough, she owes money all over town.

Nobody calls me Lebowski, you got the wrong guy. I’m the Dude, so that’s what you call me. That or, uh, His Dudeness, or uh, Duder, or El Duderino, if you’re not into the whole brevity thing.

Hey, I know that guy, he’s a nihilist. Karl Hungus.

These days, right now, these are the good old days. I’ve always approached it that way. That’s why I’m still working. I’m not the guy who is ready to sit by the pool.

As the actor, you can’t go in saying, ‘I’m the bad guy.’ You’ve got to think your reasons for doing what you’re doing are good.

People just automatically say ‘If this guy is George and Barbara Bush’s son, we don’t have any question about those personal qualities that we were fooled on by Clinton.’

It’s kind of nice in some ways having an Olympic Trials where I finished second. You can kind of go in more under the radar facing a 2:03 guy and facing a lot of dudes who are faster than I am, whereas, before Beijing, I had one of the top 10 times in the field,...

I was always a God guy.

At the Superdome, a young man came up to me holding a baby. He’d run out of diapers. He’d run out of medicine. His baby was sick. The guy’s saying, ‘Help me! Take my baby.’ What could I do? That’s the definition of helpless.

I see pictures of myself and I always knew that what I was feeling didn’t look like that guy in the pictures.

Advice from a Romance Writer: Guys, make your woman feel pretty even on an ‘off’ day. Trust me, good things will come of it.

The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I’m sure of that.

We need leaders who will stand up for the little guy and listen once again.

I’m a Christian first. I’m a family guy second. As much as I like coaching, as much as I like basketball, it’s third, fourth, or fifth down the line.

I wore No. 19 because of Bryan Trottier. I liked the overall aspect of his game. I liked the way he conducted himself on the ice. He was a quiet guy. He played really hard; just a good all-around, prototypical center man who could do everything.

He was a great man, my granddad, a very calm, logical and methodical guy. I suppose I’m trying to be more like him as I get older.

I have raised beds, perennial beds, cut flower beds. I have an island on a pond that’s just covered in peonies. I have an herb garden, tons of vegetables, raspberries. I have everything. I’m a green guy.

You don’t face Nolan Ryan without your rest. He’s the only guy I go against that makes me go to bed before midnight.

A stand-up comedian will never be the life of a party. Instead, he will be the guy who is standing at a corner and observing people.

I think I’m prone to not being a good guy in relationships.

The part in ‘Taxi’ was originally written for a guy named Phil Ryan, so they made it Phil Banta, and then they made it Tony Banta, which sounded a lot better anyway.

The guy that picked me up at the airport in 1985 when I was out in L.A. for my first audition was selling a script. I was a nobody coming off a plane to read for a new show.

I go to a club to relax and hear the music on a big sound system. I don’t go to pull a guy.

I hate gold. I’m sort of a sterling-silver guy.

Buddy Guy finally got a break and made it. And Buddy Guy deserves it.

I think I’m the most positive guy still going in my generation, and I’m out there to prove that.

I’m an equal-opportunity law-enforcement guy – I lock everybody up.

I’m a basic steak-fish-salad kind of guy.

I’m tough when I have to be, tender when I should be. When you find a really tough guy, he’s not a predator. He doesn’t have to prove himself. Guys who have to pretend to be tough, they ain’t. I’m tough.

I think of myself… as a troubadour, a village storyteller, the guy in the shadows of the campfire.

I grow up relying upon on my own shoulders even from the moment they were too weak to hold me back, but I knew it is the only to become a tough guy.

The name of the game is ‘kill the quarterback.’ Every football team tries to knock the guy out of the game that’s handling the ball.

I’m not a party guy, and I’m not a Hollywood guy, either.

I find it very hard to play a part, then take it off like a cheap suit and become Mr Normal – Mr. Nice Guy.

My friend told me I went over to this guy and he pulled a knife.

One of the big things that if you’ve got a guy who is doing things that other people could view as evil or bad, then you’ve got to find the silver lining: you’ve got to find the thing that makes this guy a good guy.

When you’re talking about Tim Burton, you’re talking about a guy that has such a visual sense, an aesthetic, a storytelling style. It’s like he’s got his own genre.

He moved like a bird; twitching and bunching his shoulders. His head angled back and forth to watch me, and as he did, his biceps tightened. His dark hair was chin length and concealed most of his face. His mouth was wide in a disturbing smile that displayed his perfectly white teeth; the upper and...

My thoughts of you are a rainbow in splashing ocean waves…appearing…disappearing in sacred depths of skies the grasps of mine reach to the highest… Will you, ah, long for kissing me tonight? so I could feel the sweetest pleasure of your lips on mine… As we embrace in our dream, I’ll dance your quiet loving...

I’m not going to be a guy that retires and keeps coming back. When I’m gone, I’m gone. Same thing as amateur wrestling; when I won the world championships in Olympics, I left and I never went back. Same for pro.

I think that when Americans go to vote, states should not list what party the candidates are affiliated with. That would require voters to actually think and get to know a candidate instead of voting for their favorite gang. ‘Oh, this guy is a Republican, so he must be good.’

In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it’s okay to aim his gun at a child.

I’ve given up looking for a boyfriend. That’s not to say I won’t be interested if the right guy comes along. But I’m not in a hurry.

If you can go out with your live show and turn people on to that, where you have that fan base that’s religious and they’re going to come see you when you’re in that town, once your radio success is gone and you’re not a mainstream guy anymore you can still go out and play...

I’m a complete foodie, but I’m a terrible cook. If a guy can get me in the kitchen and we actually have fun cooking, that’s amazing.

I could not see myself going back into the studio without Tommy Dowd, our beloved producer who passed away in 2002. Then in 2009, Michael Lehman, my manager, really pushed me to meet with T Bone Burnett. I ended up meeting with T Bone in Memphis, and we hit it off right away; I knew...

Lynch is an ordinary, smalltown guy and he just sees strange things in people.

And now comes Pete Martell in Twin Peaks and he’s just a nice guy.

I am the kind of guy who has never taken myself too seriously. I mean, I am very serious about what I do; I’m very serious about the creative process and everything, but at the end of the day, I am just another lucky geek who got to live out a dream, you know?

Being a leader doesn’t mean you are the guy who runs things.