Quotes from Jack Black

Instead of finding fault with the fire, I gave thanks for the metal to take the temper and hold it.

The books so fired me with the desire for travel, adventure, romance, that I was miserable most of the time.

You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.

Every time I stole a dollar I knew I was breaking a law and working a hardship on the loser. Yet for years I kept on doing it. I wonder how many of us quit wronging others for the best reason of all — because it is wrong, and we know it.

My experience with short rations in many places has convinced me that we would all be healthier and better nourished if we ate half as much food and chewed it twice as long.

I say they had character because, while they did wrong things, they always tried to do them in the right way and at the right time.

The whipping post is a strange place to gather fresh confidence and courage, yet that's what it gave me, and in that dark cell I left behind many fears and misgivings.

Looking back at it, it seems to me that I was blown here and there like a dead leaf whipped about by the autumn winds till at last it finds lodgment in some cozy fence corner. When I left school at fourteen I was as unsophisticated as a boy could be; I knew no more of the world and its strange ways than the gentle, saintly woman who taught me my prayers in the convent. Before me twentieth birthday I was on the docket of criminal court, on trial for burglary.

I'm going to write about them as I took them -- with a smile.

She could say 'no' quicker than any woman I ever knew, and none of them ever meant 'yes'.

The stool pigeon is the coming race.

Kid," said George, when I asked him about the cook. "He's crazy as a bedbug and the best 'mulligan' maker on the road. 'Montana Blacky' is welcome at any bum camp anywhere, and he spends his life going from jungle to jungle.

If I could wish for anything else, it would be a little more moderation, a little more tolerance, and a little more of the trustful innocence of that boy who learned his prayers at the knee of the gentle, kindly old priest at the Sisters' Convent school.

This gambling habit is the curse of a thief's life.

found him on his bench, sober and sorry for it.

Funny songs, that's my ticket. I can't remember when it started or why it started, it's just something that I NEEDED.

Me personally, I don't have anything against Jesus any more than I do any of the religious icons. I think they're all pretty funny.

Buddha is pretty funny. Buddha is the coolest, though. If I had to go with one, I'd probably party with the Buddha.