All great writers are schizophrenics, you know what I'm saying? 'Cause they switch up. They become the person when they write.
When you retire, you switch bosses - from the one who hired you to the one who married you.
I do need to find inner tranquillity and get into a "zone" before I switch on the computer to work on a story. Only after this do I enter the story world, where I meet the characters and, together, we work through the day and night.
We are indeed the light of the world-but only if our switch is turned on.
I think you can find yourself in life perhaps not really being the master of your own life and it is within your own will and tenacity whether you switch the roles or not.
There isn't a switch that I turn on. I'm an actor. This is what I do.
I'm glad I've never been so successful that I couldn't stop doing one thing. I've kind of been able to just kick it along and switch around.
I'm kind of quiet but when I put my helmet on, it's like you flip a switch. I'm ready to go.
If I knew exactly what I know now and had it to do over, I'd be a switch hitter. No telling what I could have done.
I used to think that once you really knew a thing, its truth would shine on forever. Now it's pretty obvious to me that more often than not the batteries fade, and sometimes what you knew even goes out with a bang when you try and call on it, just like a light bulb cracking off when you throw the switch.
Horror allowed me to quickly switch gears.
Altruism is innate, but it's not instinctual. Everybody's wired for it, but a switch has to be flipped.
Make sense who may. I switch off.
You can watch a little bit of war from your nice living room - 30 seconds of what's going on in Syria - and when you've had enough, switch over to some celebrity programme. We live our life through screens and images in this way, and we don't know what is real or fake anymore. It doesn't matter.
I assume that people get in trouble when they do a bait and switch, when they say something to get the job and then they just don't do that thing.
I have musical ADD, so I like to switch things up.
It was probably good you couldn't flip the love switch because sometimes it was what you needed even if you didn't want it.
The war on terrorism was a bait and switch operation.
I used to say things like, 'My name's not Al (Bundy), you know?' Not to the press, but to fans. 'My name is actually Ed. ' I'd find myself saying that, and I'd think, 'Who do you think they think you are? They only know you from that!' And finally I just got. . . I don't know, I guess a switch went on for me, and I realized, 'This was the greatest job that you've ever had in your life. Why are you acting like an asshole?' So from that minute on, I kind of. . . well, I hate the word 'embraced,' but I just kind of went, 'Yeah, okay. ' 'So you're Al, right?' 'Yep!'
Switch on and keep on in yourself the cheerful buttons. . . Those marked Joy, Laughter, Happiness, Love, Passion for life, Gratitude for life.