Craig T. Nelson Quotes & Sayings

“Sometimes you're encouraged, and other times disappointed. It's a matter of going in and precluding all that with, 'This is what I do, not who I am.' I need to be who I am in the process of doing what I do. I need to stay true to what it is I'm really here for. And that's the hardest thing, the biggest challenge.”

“The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.”

“When there's that forgiveness present and compassion, it just helps you live so much easier.”

“I had a '56 Ford, and my first car was a '49 Chevy. I converted it to a stick and used to race with the other high school kids down along the river.”

“I mean, a lot of my family are teachers.”

“I love going to work.”

“You can only do so much grunting and groaning and then you're done, you know?”

“Lance Armstrong is the guy that I would put up there as one of my heroes. He's done something that no one else has done and when you put into it what he overcame, it's absolutely unbelievable.”

“I lost my parents when I was fairly young.”

“No one is accountable anymore for anything.”