Brad Paisley Quotes

As an actor, you know, I love not being pigeonholed, which is great. No one really knows who I am. So that's a positive.

People can't really place me. They're not really sure who I am.

I love being the bad guy, simply because I was always so responsible, so predictable growing up.

Every time people try and define me, it gets battered around. I like to keep people guessing.

If you ever got me, you wouldn't have a clue what to do with me.

Politics is tricky; it cuts both ways. Every time you make a choice, it has unintended consequences.

Any actor has their moments of being stressed, but the great part about this job is that it's so unpredictable, and that's what I like. I love spontaneity. I don't ever want to be bored, doing the same thing from 9 to 5.

Jurgen loved London because he could get lost here. He said that it was the first time he could do that in eight years. No one knew him or bothered him. It is great for a person to be able to get lost.

If you look at a painting that you love by one of the great masters, every time you go back to it, you see something different - a different attitude or brushstroke. 'Hamlet' is like an entire gallery of old masters.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes or variations that lead to mastery... I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty. Other qualities may be more conducive to achievement, publicity, success; but they are all outworn - as outworn as ideologies, opinions, concepts and names for things.

Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance.

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.

When I first appeared, people couldn't figure out whether I was gay, straight, black, white or whatever, and I loved that. I loved the fact it scares people.

There is no one label that could be attached to me that would be thought adequate.

In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.

It strikes me every time I do an interview that I don't really sit around thinking about my goals and my life and my career. I do what I love doing and I get a lot of feedback. I'm free as a bird, you know? If I do something good, it's, 'Wow, that was brilliant,' and if I do something bad, it just goes away.

I don't care much about conforming.

Even as economic and political freedoms have advanced enormously and generated huge benefits for humanity, they've also created a great deal of anxiety because every time you have to make a choice, there's anxiety about making the wrong one.

I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.

I love doing things that people don't expect.

I would never say never to marrying again but for the time being I'm having a great time.

To me, being in the big time is not that big of a deal. I've been there; I know what it is. It's exciting, but it's also a lot of work and pressure. I love sort of flying under the radar where we can play theaters and sell CD's on the Internet, and it's really kind of a cool time.

I really had no great love for shoes. I was a working First Lady; I was always in canvas shoes. I did nurture the shoes industry of the Philippines, and so every time there was a shoe fair, I would receive a pair of shoes as a token of gratitude.