Fella Quotes

I don`t think a fella should be able to sit on his backside and receive welfare. I`d like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living.

A fella came up to me the other day with a nice story. He was in a bar somewhere and it was the quiet time of the night. Everybody`s staring down at the sauce and one of my saloon songs comes on the jukebox, "One for My Baby", or something like that. After a while, a drunk at the end of the bar looks up and says, jerking his thumb toward the jukebox, "I wonder who he listens to?"

I looked it at like this way. To get folks to like you, as a screen player I mean, I figured you had to sort of be their ideal. I don`t mean a handsome knight riding a white horse, but a fella who answered the description of a right guy.

In spite of the fact that Rooster Cogburn would shoot a fella between the eyes, he`d judge that fella before he did it. He was merely trying to make the area in which he was marshal livable for the most number of people.

I`ve always been a fella who put most of my eggs in one basket and then take a dump in the basket but I really don`t know.

In my book (he has), but guess what? My book don`t mean much, ... I don`t know. That`s why you have to defer to the big fella, who`s supposed to make those decisions. I don`t get paid to make those decisions.

No one at Def Jam or Roc-A-Fella believed in "Through the Wire." So I shot a video using my own money.

I`ve been friends with Eric for years. And I think I always will be. He`s a lovely fella and I love him very dearly. And he, and I just called him up again and you know I`m doing an album (Cloud Nine), Eric could you come and play. Sure, he came over and played great stuff. Devil`s Radio","Cloud Nine", he does a nice little solo on the end of "That`s What It Takes" and also the other one the second side "The Wreck of the Hesperus."` (On Eric Clapton)

A friend of mine asked me to open a sports bar in London, and the media were there. This fella started interviewing me, thinking I was Sean Bean.

He`s a big fella. It just doesn`t lend itself to the symmetry of the park,