Ken Kesey Quotes

When you're playing a superhero, you're almost playing two different people. I separate when I'm playing Jefferson Pierce and the days when I'm playing Black Lightning.

When I wanna be a superhero I just wake up.

I think I'd make a great superhero. I'm serious. I want to play a superhero, and I've already got one in mind. I think I've still got the body for the costume, and it's something I really want to do.

I really do not like more than a week or two of down time.

I think a lot of people have too much time on their hands.

When I'm not working is when I tend to freak out a bit. It's hard for me to just stay home.

I think a superhero would be awesome to play.

I did want to play a superhero. I mean, who doesn't when you're a kid? I would have loved to be a superhero. But as I'd gotten older, I wasn't ready to jump into tights and put the cape on. I was hoping to play something a little more grounded and realistic.

I say I want a break, but every time I have some down time, I don't know what to do with myself. I need to be doing something.

Whenever Rod has four of five days off, he'll be bouncing off the walls with boredom.

I get a lot of free time between films, but I don't know why I hardly dance.

Since childhood, I wanted to become a superhero. When I do anything in real life, I believe that I am a superhero, like in the way I fight, dance, or jump.

When I first dropped into L.A., I wanted to be a superhero!

I want to be a superhero. Maybe I'll be a bartending superhero who shakes martinis to save the world.

If I don't work, I'll be sitting on the couch watching TV, eating popcorn and getting like a cow.

I'm busy and that's the way I like it - when I have too much downtime I get into trouble.

There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.

Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

I don't like not being busy.

I've always dreamed of being a superhero, and I actually got to play one!

I'm so boring. My idea of a great day is just to be home with absolutely nothing to do.

People who sit for hours in a beach chair or an airplane seat without any reading material simply baffle me: What is going on between their ears, I wonder?

I'm a big fan of not working.

I really wish I were a superhero.

How did we kill time before smartphones? I honestly can't recall. I have a vague recollection of flipping through magazines in waiting-room-type situations, but what did we do, say, in line at the post office? Waiting for a bus? Waiting for someone to meet us at a restaurant? I mean, did we just look around or something?