Fooling Quotes

It`s not my job to try and alter the director`s style - he`s in charge, and I`ll always give him my trust. I think what happens is that you learn how to deal with it if you`re not getting the support you need or if you`re not being pushed. Occasionally you`re doing two jobs at once: you`re fooling the director into thinking you`ve taken his note while doing what you think is better. It hasn`t happened very often, but it`s an awful thing when you lose your trust in a director. But it`s not for me to say.

I`d begun drinking all the time. We shot in New York City, so I`d be out to the bars every night till 3 or 4 a.m., then try to show up for a 6 o`clock call to stand toe to toe with Michael Douglas and handle 50% of a scene. How could that work? Yet there I was, the guy that struck gold, looking around at dawn to find that the only one still partying was me. I`d be drinking away, doing blow (cocaine), popping pills, and telling myself I wasn`t an addict, because there wasn`t a needle stuck in my arm. Talk about mixing up fantasy and reality! My true addiction was alcohol. The extra toxic boosters just helped me shore up the wall between my celebrity self and my real self. The questions I was running from were: `Is this success all a fluke? Had I been fooling everybody so far? Will I get caught?` It was easy to get hammered and messed up. But in doing so, I buried my self-respect, I buried my self-esteem, I buried my creative drive, and I damned near buried myself. - On filming Wall Street (1987) and his life at the time.

I`d always be the kid up singing and dancing and telling jokes and fooling around, and high energy. I must have been a nightmare for my parents.

I was the class clown so I was used to performing and fooling around in front of my friends.

I`m dyslexic, and at six years old they realized I couldn`t read a word and had been fooling them. My mum said to me: `If you come to me with a book in your hand and a smile on your face every day through the summer holiday, I`ll get you an agent.`

The truth is I`ve never fooled anyone. I`ve let people fool themselves. They didn`t bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn`t argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn`t. When they found this out, they would blame me for disillusioning them---and fooling them.

There`s not a lot of fooling around, but there is a genuine sort of light air about it all. It`s a lot of work, so you sort of have to keep.

It`s not about how loud you turn the amp up. That`s not what makes it sound big. What makes it sound big is fooling around with different delays and reverb settings.

He`d kick the pitcher`s (butt). He`d do it. No (fooling) around, bro.

I know he respects me, he`s fooling himself. I just hope he wears that banana hat in the ring.

I started fooling around with the intro to one of the songs. Then another song, and another. I was so excited when I went into the studio.

Casey knew his baseball. He only made it look like he was fooling around. He knew every move that was ever invented and some that we haven`t even caught on to yet.

There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.

If I`m successful in fooling a wire service, I don`t really have to do anything else to promote the story.

If I`m successful in fooling a wire service, I don`t really have to do anything else to promote the story, because the media will feed off of itself. They all assume the original author did his or her homework.

We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.

I`m not a hitter, and I have no business getting hits. I`m just fooling some guys.

He is grateful for becoming so successful in America, and wants to give back. He`s not fooling around, and he`s an incredibly brilliant man. Through this research, we might find solutions to problems we don`t even understand.