Evan Bayh Quotes

When I'm back at home it's just reality. I kind of separate myself from Hollywood.

I'd much rather be in the world than in some ivory tower somewhere.

If you live only a movie-star life, you know only movie-star things. I needed to live a regular life with normal people around.

The people in Washington spend too much time in Washington, so they think Washington-centric thoughts.

This tennis world, this tennis community, is very much a bubble, and it's very easy to get lost in here. You know, there is a real world out there still.

We all get so caught up in the moment of what we're doing every day, it's hard to hit that reset button and get pulled away from all that and see life from a different perspective.

You realize that for all the shenanigans that go on in the big circus of politics, everybody wakes up and goes to work.

You can go up in the air and everything is gone. You know, you don't think about baseball. You don't think about anything. It's just something that takes you away from everyday life. I love being in a plane and looking down to see traffic on the freeway.

Just going along with this, what I did, or what I do is I imagine not being myself seeing it, but imagine somebody else who's seeing it for the first time.

Growing up in Georgia, I used to think people up north or out west were so different. They're really not. They're just regular people who live in small towns. They grow up and try to raise families and have a job and go to church and play softball. It's that way everywhere.

I remember once I had lunch with George W Bush, his father, and Condoleezza Rice. Then I went home to find my dog and my neighbour's dog fighting over a dead rabbit, and I had to separate them. I like that my home life keeps things real.

I was always an outsider, always standing outside, observing and trying to figure things out. Which is exactly what you need to do as a writer, I suppose.

It’s all right that you do not understand my Theory of Relativity. I do not understand your Theory of Normalcy.

You are living in an unreal world when you work there [the White House.]

The White House seems to be a sound-proof booth.

The best thing about being President is that it gets you out of American life. I don't know what the theory is behind this, but it is a fact. The first thing we do with a President is shunt him off to a siding where nothing American can ever happen to him.

Being an outsider helps breed comedy.

I'm probably the worst Silicon Valley insider ever. I don't hang out with Silicon Valley people.

Life is bigger than cinema. Cinema is just a part of life, so I never take success or failure seriously.

There's seven billion people on the planet. It's not about you.

Washington, D.C. is not on the side of mainstream and main street America.

Being in that other world of media, TV, Hollywood, it's not a real world. For me going back to work, it was a pleasure to get back to the world I knew. That's the real world. That's normal for me.

Every writer is an outsider.

When you get out of Washington, you realize how much of a Beltway bubble exists.

I think politicians just need to get out in the real world.