Eric Carmen Quotes

People ask my mother whether she had any idea that I'd be CEO of a company some day, and she would say, 'Absolutely not. Totally out of the realm of possibility.' There was certainly nothing that would have been very predictable in my upbringing.

So dancing was not something I had a great desire to do.

I was a kid from Oklahoma who never wanted to be a singer, but was told I could sing. And things snowballed.

I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.

I have no heart to campaign for a job I did not seek.

I never wanted to be a part of the industry, as I had no knowledge about it. I am one of those rare and really lucky people for whom the calling identified me and not the other way around.

If somebody goes, 'You should go to 135,' my heart's just not into it.

I think, like all big things, you don't know they're going to be a big thing when you start. You just kind of, like, play because it's fun, and it's interesting, and then it turns out to be way more important than you expected.

I don't want to make silly videos.

I never had an ambition to go into modeling, originally. I still can't believe how quickly it all took off.

There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly.

The only reason to delay at this point was because the immediate prospect was so deeply uninviting.

The sun rose slowly, as if it wasn't sure it was worth all the effort.

Haymitch said you'd take a lot of convincing.

People are afraid to merge.

I said I wasn't interested, and she was bright enough to say that she wasn't really interested either. As things turned out, we both overestimated our apathies, but not that much.

I love bowling almost as much as I love not bowling.

I don't have a "I want to play this or that," I just don't have that. I've never been like that.

I can't imagine being quite as lucky at any other time - I certainly never have been before. That goes right down from my producing partners to people like Eddie Vedder. But the two things that make me feel that this was meant to be now and not before was that the story itself has more resonance today - I find it a more important story today than it was then - and Emile.

I have something to tell you." "How, you have something to tell me?" "You have understood me exactly." "Well, I am listening." "Listening? Then, you wish me to tell you?" "Yes, that is it. I am listening, and therefore I wish you to tell me." "Shall I tell you now?" "No.

Being a leader is one thing I've never felt comfortable with. It's not my nature.

The saddest people I've met in my life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all .

Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays till we call, and then not often near.

A little still she strove, and much repented, And whispering “I will ne'er consent”—consented.

Nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal.