Quotes About Acceptance

I think at some point every actor has practiced their acceptance speech while they're having a shower. It's fun.

There's been very little writing about speech impediments, even though it's this huge psychological barrier.

I have a speech impediment because I slur a lot, and they even make fun of me on 'Cougar Town' because there's certain word combinations that I just can't say.

Having been heavily involved in the planning of a couple of G.O.P. conventions, my view is, we should just scrap 'em. Cancel 'em. Just figure out an appropriate forum for the nominee to give an acceptance speech and be done with it.

That's what I love about death on 'Game of Thrones.' Nobody has dying speeches. Nobody has anything like that. Once you're gone, you're gone.

Acceptance speeches can make or break presidential candidacies. It was Al Gore's 2000 acceptance speech that relaunched his candidacy and nearly saved him. John Kerry's speech and overall ineffective convention nearly sank him in 2004 (though he was almost saved by the debates).

You give hundreds, probably thousands of speeches in this business, but you only get one chance to make an acceptance speech at the Hall of Fame. That's pressure.

I think it would be great if everybody could be out. But it's such a personal choice. People have to do it at their own speed. I respect that.

There were so many years that were going by at a lightning speed that it was so hard to kinda put our heads around what was happening to us.

Do I lack speed? Yeah, but a lot of guys lack speed.

You go through spells where you feel that maybe you're too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.

I have no control over what people think, and if I were to spend energy on that, I would be a lifeless, deadened human being.

When somebody used to compliment me, I'd spend 10 minutes trying to talk them out of it.

We're all spending way too much of our time and energy trying to fight the stuff we can't change.

Short of spending $10,000, there is nothing you can do to your head to hide the fact that you're going bald.

You need to come to terms with the fact that you are not an international cricketer anymore and that's certainly difficult to come to terms with. But then I love going to my farm and spending time with my family. Drop and pick up my kids from school and play cricket as well.

I am happy that people are spending time on creating jokes on me.

As a kid, I spent a lot of my mental energy hiding who I was and attempting to fit in.

I'm so glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely.

Dissolving differences has always been an important motive for my writing, right from 'The Mistress of Spices.'

Everyone in the world knows 'Spider-Man.' And to be accepted into such a large franchise was overwhelming.

I definitely have a fear of spiders. Don't we want to embrace our fears?

Children are perfectly happy to sit next to spiders; it is only grown-ups who are frightened away.

Moths are okay. Actually, moths don't bother me near as much as, say, spiders do.