Mike D Quotes

I like taking the subway to work.

We all wake up, and I'm sure at some point during the day we all have very similar thoughts regardless of our circumstances and where we are in the world.

I write human stories. I write about people. Not as a product of their environment. But from the stance that everybody is made of the same thing.

It is not the walls that make the city, but the people who live within them.

One of the things novels should do is shine a light on those parts of us that are common, the fibres that connect all of us. They should convey the sense that we're all connected, coming from the same tree, sharing common roots.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

We wake up at 5 A.M. every day whether Howard has to get up for his radio show or not.

There's a universal inside of me. So if I tell my story, you're going to see parts of your story in it. I don't know which parts, but we all overlap. We're all very much alike.

The one thing we all have in common is that we're human. Why pay more attention to the things that make us different over the things that bring us together?

The truth of my experience is that we are all a lot more alike than we are different.

I like it that in many ways we are all the same.

I am because we are. We all bleed the same color. We all want to love and be loved.

Sometimes you're just regular. Sometimes you wake up, and your breath stinks like everybody else, and you had a bad hair day.

I'm human just like everyone.

I am a New Yorker! Mass transit is my sweet ride. I know the subway system like the back of my hand.

It's just about feelings. And the thing is we - everybody lives exactly the same things. We are all humans, even if you speak Spanish or whatever you speak. That's just - we are humans, and that's really interesting. And I'm sure that we can understand each other even if you don't understand my language.

I wake up around 8 o'clock in the morning. I am an early riser.

It doesn't matter how late you get home or how wired you are, you still wake up early with your kids. That's the most important thing you do in a day, whether or not you're in a hit Broadway show.

I still live in the city. I still jump on the bus.

I'm a normal person. I'm just like you and just like everyone else - I have feelings and thoughts.

At the end of the day, we are all humans.

If I wake up at 6 A. M. to work out, I'm done at 10 A. M.. Most guys play video games all day.

I commuted an hour and a half each way to high school in N.Y.C. I took a bus, a ferry, then a subway.

Whatever the reason is, I am happiest when connecting with the human experience. It lets me know that I'm not alone in this world.

I wake up at 5:30 in the morning, get to the Pawn Shop at six, work out for two hours, film until seven at night.