Quotes About Gratitude

I take pride in the fact that a guy and a gal can come to my show, have a couple of beers and still go home with a little money in their pockets.

I savored my time on top of the podium by watching the American flag rise up out of the crowd as the anthem played, thinking about how every single second of training I've done was for this minute and how many people played a role in my achievement.

Garrison Keillor read several of my poems on 'The Writer's Almanac' and I've heard from listeners nationally and internationally. That's one of the great gifts of email.

I have to thank my mother for this. When I was a little boy she used to teach me poems. I would go in church and tell the poems in church for the Easter program, and again for Mother's Day and any occasion she felt would fit. I was very energetic with delivery at that time as a boy, so it stuck with me.

I'm very grateful to all the people of Fresno, to Philip Levine and all the poets before me, and all the farmworkers. I didn't get here by myself.

'Vicky Donor' is now seen as a case study and the intelligentsias are looking at it from a strong academic point of view. I keep getting calls from medical practitioners who constantly thank me for making this film.

I've managed to completely reeducate myself into making eating secondary. I used to eat all the time because the food was there. Now I feel like a kid in school who is gaining points for behaving. And I love myself for it.

No one will ever say Dwight Clark was selfish.

You have to understand how lucky I feel. I was on 'Saturday. Night. Live.' I played with the Clash! On what planet would I look at anything in my life in any less-than-stellar way?

People were very nice to me. They knew I didn't have the money to do figure-drawing classes, so they let me annex the figure-drawing classes that the animators had.

I got some big breaks early on, and the attitude around it was always 'You're just lucky to be here.' No one came out and said that, but that was the clear message. And I felt that way.

I know it sounds cliche, but to give back is important. Sometimes we're given so much, we need to do something for other people. I think that's really important.

Without sounding too cliche, my part on 'Getting On' is the best role I've ever had. It is so rich, it is so well rounded, and I am happy to be right here. I feel like I lucked out and got one of the richest characters on TV because he is so complex.

I think Christmas, for me, has always been about family, as cliche as that sounds.

Christmas for me is a time for being close to my family and those close to me.

I'm lucky to have very close friends that I've had since childhood.

I am very lucky to consider many of my business associates friends. Some are closer than others, but I respect and value all of them.

The people that are closest to your heart are always the people who were with you when you had nothing.

I have like 20 snap-up shirts in my closet, and I never, never would have thought before FNL would I have had that.

I've got a closet full of tuxes, and I appreciate that, because one thing I don't like to do is shop.

I have a line of clothing at J.C. Penney's... and I'm lucky to be affiliated.

We can think so much about life and take ourselves so seriously; I mean, I like to tell people, 'Don't take life too seriously' because you'll cloud the experience. That's what the meaning of life is to me - being able to enjoy the moment.

I love Arsenal. I really love this club. They've brought me a lot.

Where would I go from Liverpool? It is one of the biggest clubs in the world and I am too happy here to move.