Gary Numan Quotes

I've basically grown up with Harry Potter, as so many kids my age have. It's kind of a part of my life.

I've never had much interest in spinoffery - the idea of writing in someone else's universe generally leaves me cold - but 'Doctor Who' is different. I've grown up with it. It's been part of my life since I was tiny, watching Jon Pertwee on a grainy black and white television in Cornwall and being terrified out of my mind.

I catch myself judging myself as that 13-year-old boy, who, of course, rightfully points out that he is only a child. And my membership - well, I was drafted into the Waffen-SS and didn't exactly volunteer, which was just as idiotic. I wanted to be on the submarines and then ended up with the Waffen-SS.

The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.

Probably the best part of my life has been watching the kids play their games.

Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.

I've got weird conflicting feelings about my generation.

It still frightens me a little bit to think that so much of my life was totally devoted to Star Trek and almost nothing else.

When people ask if I'm going to be sad that 'The Office' is over, they don't even understand the depth of that question for me. It's an era of my life. No one would have known my name if it wasn't for the show.

'Family Ties,' to me, was strictly '80s. It was from the beginning of the '80s until the end of the '80s, and it was very specific to that time. Ronald Reagan was president.

I spent a lot of money and time at pizza places. Golf and Stuff in Ventura, right off the 101, was my hangout. Skating Plus, right behind it, always had a good selection of games. That was the place to be when you were from Oxnard back in the '80s.

Everyone in the '80s grew up, and for a lot of the film executives, that's what they know and love.

I grew up loving Pee-wee Herman. I was obsessed. I was the kid at school who everyone knew was obsessed with Pee-Wee.

I always want to play and even more so against Sevilla because of all that it means to me.

Since I left, I follow every City game in every competition, and it's just natural for me because I feel it is still my club, even if I'm not there anymore.

My childhood friends and I would have been featured in 'The Achievers: The Story of the Big Lebowski Fans,' but I never signed the release form we received from the producers. I am both proud and ashamed of this fact.

I love the nostalgic feel of the '80s and, oh, I love Winona Ryder so much. I was such a huge fan of hers growing up, so breathing the same air as her was an honor for sure.

Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate, Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving.

I drink to remember I smoke to forget / Some things to be proud of, some stuff to regret.

There is another man within me that's angry with me.

I have done bad things. I can't take them back, and they are part of who I am. Most of the time, they seem like the only thing I am.

Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.

Sister, I won't ask for forgiveness, my sins are all I have.

So I was still guilty. And if I was not guilty because one cannot be guilty of betraying a criminal, then I was guilty of having loved a criminal.

I can be 100 years old but I will always be proud to say I was in Harry Potter.