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Date created: April 2010
Birthdate May 17, 1962
Zodiac Taurus
Location Glasgow, Scotland
Country United Kingdom
Weight
Height 6 feet and 2 inches / 1.88 m cm
Etnhnicity
Job Actors,
I haven't had a drink in thirteen years", he said on "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson" (2005) on February 1, 2005, speaking about his alcoholism. "But, occasionally, I'm tempted to have one beer. The problem is that if I have that one beer, I wake up in Tijuana four days later with a tattoo and a sore ass
My mother was tickled and I think kind of proud when my father got hit on my an attractive middle-aged Asian lady who hadn't noticed he was with his family. He was certainly pleased about it.
Canada is not the party. Its the apartment above the party.
Old people really do have a secret though. You wanna know what it is? Luck.
I have that hypocrisy of a parent in that I'm like,'Come on, you've got to toughen up at the same time let me take care of that for you.
He will know from and early age that failure is not disgrace. It's just a pitch that you missed, and you'd better get ready for the next one. The next one might be the shot heard round the world. My son and I are Americans, we prepare for glory by failing until we don't.
She still cared for me, and the best way I could make amends to her was to be happy. I do have a knack for finding great women.
Those unexpected morality lessons provided by the trip had jolted me into some kind of action. It was time to jettison the past before the present jettisoned me. This was my first veiled attempt at recovery. Although perhaps I was just running away again. I returned to Glasgow, planning to say a final goodbye to Anne and get out of her life, but ended up drinking with buddies in the Chip Bar and never seeing her. I called her instead to say I was moving to London and told her she could have the house and everything else we owned, which wasn't much. I think she was as relieved as I was that I was leaving town for good.
I took the sleeper out of Glasgow, and as the smelly old train bumped out of Central Station and across the Jamaica Street Bridge, I stared out at the orange halogen streetlamps reflected in the black water of the river Clyde. I gazed at the crumbling Victorian buildings that would soon be sandblasted and renovated into yuppie hutches. I watched the revelers and rascals traverse the shiny wet streets. I thought of the thrill and danger of my youth and the fear and frustration of my adult life thus far. I thought of the failure of my marriage and my failures as a man. I saw all this through my reflection in the nighttime window. Down the tracks I went, hardly aware that I was going further south with every passing second.
Divorce lawyers stoke anger and fear in their clients, knowing that as long as the conflicts remain unresolved the revenue stream will keep flowing.
When in doubt about who's to blame. Blame the English.
I realize that I am not a journalist. So anything I say is not important.
I don't think wood was discovered in Britain until the 1970's. That's when I discovered it anyway.
Anyone who's just driven 90 yards against huge men trying to kill them has earned the right to do Jazz hands.
I was ambitious and desperate to direct my first film, so I capitulated and blew it. Never again. Never fucking again.
On that same tour we ran into a band at Aylesbury Friars, a biggish venue in Oxfordshire, England. They were a four-piece from Ireland called U2. They seemed like nice fellows and they sounded pretty good, but we didn
The world can be such a fright, but it belongs to us tonight.
Every day I ran to that book like it was a bottle of whiskey and crawled inside because it was a world that I had at least some control over, and slowly, in time, it began to take shape.
The Universe is very, very big. It also loves a paradox. For example, it has some extremely strict rules. Rule number one: Nothing lasts forever. Not you or your family or your house or your planet or the sun. It is an absolute rule. Therefore when someone says that their love will never die, it means that their love is not real, for everything that is real dies. Rule number two: Everything lasts forever.
I found the prospect daunting, but somehow comforting, too, because the counselors insisted it could be done, and, after all, many of them were recovering alcoholics themselves.
I freely admit I'm confused. I'm a confused and troubled individual but at the same time...Its Free!
I like football. I find its an exciting strategic game. Its a great way to avoid conversation with your family at Thanksgiving.
The worst gift I was given is when I got out of rehab that Christmas; a bottle of wine. It was delicious.
Strange star-like object over Oslo right before Obama arrives. A gift of a golden medal given by a group of wise men... Nah.
It 's the time of year when Canadians mate.
I love zombies. If any monster could Riverdance, it would be zombies.
It seemed that I performed better sober than drunk. Who knew?
Gillette--The best a man can get.
Be careful who you choose as your hero or who you choose to deify, be it Clay Aiken or Barack Obama. You put all you're hope and all your dreams and all your ideas about stuff into one human being. They're a human being they're going to let you down. You can't make someone your hero because of something you read on the internet. The internet is not a source of information it is a source of disinformation.
I found out it is just as hard to make a movie that you are not proud of as it is to make one you love.
Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn't matter; what mattered was that when treated as a disease, those who suffered from it were most likely to recover.
Twas the night before Thanksgiving. All the food's in the oven. And I'm in the bedroom performin' self lovin'.
There is no Thanksgiving back in the old country where I come from. You know why? Because being thankful is a sin.
If I have a near-beer, I
I think in our desire to create a better America,we have to have civilized debate in this country and not just yelling.
Alcohol ruined me financially and morally, broke my heart and the hearts of too many others. Even though it did this to me and it almost killed me and I haven't touched a drop of it in seventeen years, sometimes I wonder if I could get away with drinking some now. I totally subscribe to the notion that alcoholism is a mental illness because thinking like that is clearly insane.
Oh Satan you're a wily one.
I'm not so much a dragon slayer, more a dragon annoyer -- I'm a dragon irritater.
I have a deep and profound mistrust of all politicians.
My job is to find the politicians and the presidents and the pompous people who are telling other people how to live, powerful, visible creatures and ... go at them.
I knew that I had been partially right in the storeroom above the bar on Christmas Day. Whoever I had become had to die.
I had lived in fear of the fabled terrifying visions that assail chronic drinkers, but which had not yet attacked me.
Sometimes my pathology just spills out into the camera doesn't it?
Its like a sort of internet Ren Fair. Its like Dungeons & Dragons but for cool people who have got friends.
I think commercialism helps Christmas and I think that the more capitalism we can inject into the Christmas holiday the more spiritual I feel about it
There's a commercial break coming and I'm very excited about it and you know why? Because that's what keeps daddy in suits.
That's why Credit card companies are evil. Are they sponsoring the show tonight? ... They are Evil.
Jimmy put in a word and told them that if I made it, I wouldn't be able to live with myself without paying them back. That I'd sooner die than owe anyone money for helping me. Apparently Jimmy knew more about me at that point than I knew about myself.
I told her that I didn't want to take any drugs. That I had come here not to take drugs.
With good parody, you have to be smarter that the people you
You better watch out. You better not cry. You better not pout, I'm telling you why, Cause Santa Clause might put a cap in your ass.
Thanks cows. I appreciate your tastiness.
I think holidays create so much pressure because people feel they should be having a good time. But you shouldn't.
I do a public access show with puppets. Puppets called actors, TV and movie stars.
Stand by your bed and salute me.
When you need to borrow money the Mob seems like a better deal I think. 'You don't pay me back I break both yer legs.' Is that all? You won't take my house or wreck my credit rating? Fine where do I sign. Legs? Fine. You don't even have to sign anything.
Oprah's quitting in 2011. Now we know why the Mayans ended their calendar in 2012
I think comedy as an art involves the audience as a participant as much as is involves the artist.
By the power of Steven Wright's Beard!
Ros was dead. He had loved heroin more than it loved him. I was shocked beyond imagining; he was the first of my friends to fall.
Everything I think of now is too rude to actually say.
I didn't flee a dictator or swim an ocean to be an American like some do. I just thought long and hard about it.
Its hard to stay up. Its been a long long day And you've got the sandman at your door. But hang on, leave the TV on and lets do it anyway. Its ok. You can always sleep through work tomorrow. Ok? Hey, Hey, Tomorrow's just your future yesterday. Tell the clock on the wall,
You know who they're blaming for global warming now? This is true. Fat people.
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