Ron Rash Quotes

When I've had hard times in my life, the one thing about being in TV is that it's positive. I withdrew to 'Cheers,' it was familiar in that it was family. It had a kind of realistic positiveness to it.

For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.

We all have movies for times in our lives when we really need something.

Food is a huge source of comfort for me.

In moments of considerable strain, I tend to take to bread-and-butter pudding. There is something about the blandness of soggy bread, the crispness of the golden outer crust and the unadulterated pleasure of a lightly set custard that makes the world seem a better place to live.

Sometimes you couldn’t face the sadness of being forgotten until you felt the comfort of being remembered again.

When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.

You can't escape the taste of the food you had as a child. In times of stress, what do you dream about? Your mother's clam chowder. It's security, comfort. It brings you home.

Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.

When I have bad days, I just eat lots of chocolate ice cream and dance to the 'Lion King' soundtrack. It's really odd, but it's true.

If I'm super scared or sick, I'll still suck my thumb.

I don’t care if it’s dog piss. It makes me feel better.

When I was going through sad times, I'd watch 'Cheers' at the end of the day to make me feel better.

The sound of the piano is always something that is a real kind of comfort food to me.

The smell of shrimp is comforting.

Life throws surprises, sorrows, sadness, and hardship, and I think that writing has actually grounded me. It kept me grounded when everything else was falling apart.

When my parents got divorced, I wanted to spend my time laying in the garage listening to the washer and dryer. Loud, immersive, changing. It was music to me.

I think when we lose somebody, when we interact with those things that they also loved - like, you listen to their favorite music, or you read their favorite books - it's just a way to get in touch with them and your memories of them.

Grief reveals itself in the most mundane activities, like eating. It's never when you're looking at old pictures.

Sometimes you have a bad day, and you're like, 'I'm over this, and I just want to play tennis,' or do another sport that doesn't require any other variables, but then you have a good day, and it's like, it's amazing, and the success makes up for it.

Music helped me, growing up: it very much felt like a companion and made me less lonely.

Nothing chills out the soul like the comfort of tea and a potato.

In my darkest moments, I have not eaten an entire pie, but I have turned to other baked goods to find solace.

Music was my solace, my refuge.

I think, bad times, I sit down and I play - there's definitely certain songs that touch in certain ways. I go back to 'Moonlight Sonata' by Beethoven; that usually takes care of everything.