James Hoagland Quotes

When in doubt, punt!

I remember one of them - it was a 1941 black Ford. As it went by very slow, a guy leaned out with a shotgun, keeping a bead on us all the time, and we just had to walk slowly and wait for him to kill us... They didn't kill us, but they didn't end it, either.

Columbine was so frightening. And the media took off with it, like everything else, so it instilled more fear in people. You're looking around at school for kids like the ones who committed the shootings, and you feel wrong for doing that, you know?

To me, Columbine is just as awful as Vietnam, and it's just as awful as anything else.

I never liked guns, I hate them, I always blink before they go off.

It's an odd feeling, knowing someone is trying to kill you. On the front line, you learn quickly that if you're in the path of a bullet, you will get hit.

Every shot that kills ricochets.

Better be killed than frightened to death.

I saw Suicide in '74 and it was pretty horrifying.

I spent four days and four nights just covered in blood, falling in the water.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you.

You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about.

Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.

I was shot from the funny gun.

Sometimes, if you aren't sure about something, you just have to jump off the bridge and grow your wings on the way down.

I'll think, If this is his first punch, how are the others gonna feel? That's the only fear I have for myself.

The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?

Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me.

It's rare to find a film that goes for broke and says, 'To hell with the consequences.'

After I was assaulted in Egypt, I learned fear. I've just never been so scared in my life. I've never been so close to death.

So I all knew was you lost your limbs and you died from it. I was scared silly.

War taught me that not everything is glamorous.

The doctor punched my vein, the captain called me Cain, upon my belly sat the sow of fear.

For lack of any clearer idea, I just started acting one day. It had been in the back of my head for a while, but I think in some ways I was afraid to do it, and finally I just stepped up.