Fred Schneider Quotes

My purpose is to entertain and please myself. I feel that if I am entertained, then there will be enough other readers who will be entertained, too.

I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.

Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.

I believe in professionalism, but playing is not like a job. You have to be grateful to have the opportunity to play.

I write and have done so primarily for personal pleasure.

I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.

I don't want music to be a job for me; I want it to be something I'm doing for fun. As long it's not a job, then you're straight.

... We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us - certainly more satisfying, because it doesn't restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style. The result, I think, is pretty interesting ... we don't expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top. As long as we can play, we'll play, regardless of what it's for, who it's for or anything. It's fun for us - that's the important thing.

I have never begun a novel which wasn't going to stretch me further than I had ever stretched before.

I never had a moment of wanting to be a writer. I wanted to be an actress, but writing was just a thing I always did. And then I started to really enjoy it.

I'd like to think that even if I wasn't acting professionally, I would still be doing it for free. It helps me get through the day.

I write the books to amuse myself.

For me, my music is fun. I don't really take my music that serious.

I'm enjoying playing. As long as that continues, I'll carry on playing as long as I can.

I write mostly for pleasure, and the reading should ideally be for pleasure, too.

I filmed my first vlog and I think it worked because I wasn't trying to make it work. I was just doing it for my own enjoyment.

You play because you love it, not because you can make money from it.

Sometimes, you want to write how you feel, but making people have fun, that's part of it, too.

I love my life. I love this ESPN thing; it's been fun.

For me, that first album, there was a lot of fun stuff.

I started writing when I was 9. My mother told me it was before that, but that was the first I remember.

It's just so much fun to relax and just play baseball for a living. It's a great time in my life. I'm never going to forget it, and it's very humbling.

I would never describe football as a job because it doesn't feel like a job.

I always try to play happily.

I was writing a lot even as a kid.