Melissa Peterman Quotes

If I could go back and tell 13-year-old self that I would be on screen with Lisa Kudrow, spending my birthday on a ghost train in Blackpool with her, I would have been beside myself.

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

I always wanted to entertain. When I was six, a scrawny, scrawny kid, I'd get in my red speedo and do muscle moves. I actually thought I was muscular. I didn't know everyone was laughing at me.

If I could write a letter to my teenage self, I'd probably say something like: 'You ain't gonna believe what will become of you.'

It's funny, as a little kid, you look up to those guys who you play as in 'Madden,' and now to see myself in the game, it's an honor.

I called my family, saying, 'Guess what? I got a new show. It's about a cop who travels in time.' And they said, 'I think we've seen that one.'

I think about what 10-year-old Tony would want that 40-year-old Tony can make.

When you are 15, everything is such high stakes, even tiny things. I think because of that, it is funny but sad at the same time.

If I could go back in time, I'd return to when my parents were alive and appreciate them more than I did when I was growing up.

My brother has endless footage of us as kids because he had a video camera when we were growing up. The trippiest part was my younger self predicting my future path, like a truth-seer.

If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.

Time travel is a fantasy we all have. The 'Back to the Future' series really exploits that wish.

Now I tell my mom, I go, 'Mom, you know when I was a kid and you told me to turn off the television and go outside and play?' I'd be like, 'You literally were hurting my career when you did that. You literally stopped me from doing now, what I do for a living.'

I always tell my mom that if she would have just bought me a Barbie when I was little, I would have gone into real estate.

I'm always game for movies based on time travel. Hopefully, someday, I'll be a part of a time travel series of films.

You always dream about being on a baseball card. It's kind of funny when you finally see it.

I wish I could go tell 12-year-old me like I don't worry that you just fainted in front of all the girls, one day you'll be able to make this into an episode of TV.

You never forget where you were when you write a song; it's a very proper memory, so I knew exactly where I was and what I was doing for each track. It was like going into a time machine.

What year is it in your imagination?

I think if my eight-year-old self could see me at the Royal Albert Hall winning a prize for playing the Doctor on telly, he would need a stiff shot of Irn-Bru.

Time never runs backward when I need it to. Not for me, and not for anyone else.

At the party, Rob Partridge said to me, "You gave hope to other balding men." My new epitaph: "Co-wrote a couple of decent songs and went bald shamelessly."

Probably no one alive hasn't at one time or another brooded over the possibility of going back to an earlier, ideal age in his existence and living a different kind of life.

Sometimes when I'm swimming, I think that maybe someday I'll put my red Speedo up for auction. Or maybe I'll donate it to the Smithsonian. They can stuff it with two plums and a gherkin and put it on display.

This is what I want: I want to grab my brother’s hand and run back through time, losing years like coats falling from our shoulders.