Ben Stokes Quotes

Nothing good ever happens after midnight.

Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.

The definition of a stupid thing is something that if you do everything right, you still get hurt. Fire-eating and love are stupid things.

Pragmatism is not always a good thing. Experience is not always a good thing.

I never envy the guys who get attention for partying too much or behaving badly.

I'm not very good at staying up late and drinking or any of that stuff. It sort of freaks me out.

But sometimes, maybe most times, it isn't that clear. It is dark and you are near the edge of a cliff, but you're moving slowly, not sure which direction you're heading in. Your steps are tentative but they are still blind in the night. You don't realize how close you are to the edge, how the soft earth could give away, how you could just slip a bit and suddenly plunge into the dark.

I make bad choices. I've got such dodgy tastes in men.

When you're working on a lake and it's dark and cold out and you can't see what's underwater, it is freaking scary!

I wouldn't say the nightlife for anybody in New York is all that wholesome.

For a few months when I was about 17, I smoked a small cigar because I thought it looked cool and it would get me the girls. It didn't.

Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.

I love L.A., but you can get into a lot of trouble out here.

Running at night used to frighten me. Part of it was simply safety, the question of whether level ground would truly appear under each tentative footstep, and whether the temporary but complete blindness suffered while running toward headlights was, in fact, concealing death.

I think he's Will 's partying a lot in Cabo. I think he's running a brothel. I don't know what he's doing.

She has good instincts, but wrong judgments. She'll rue the day.

We live in an unsafe world.

It's very real, the narrow line between a night danced away and the potential of death around the corner.

People go down bad paths and they make bad decisions, but it's always justified in their head.

Our operations of the past and present year produce nothing in effect but additional enemies and national contempt..

One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things: Nothing good happens after midnight, nothing good happens when you're around guns unless you're going hunting, and you don't want to mess around with women that you don't know because a lot of times, bad things happen.

I think you're a product of your influences, your environment. You see guys with so much talent, but they got the wrong people around them telling them the wrong things. They wind up going down the wrong path.

I think you cannot be too complacent. I think that's dangerous, and you cannot take anything for granted.

The concept of 'Bad Magic' is something that is incredibly intoxicating and magical but ultimately bad for you.