Richard Petty

A lot of them also looked a little further down the line in the future than we did. We always did everything out of Level Cross (N.C.) in the backyard and we were fairly successful with the thing. Then it started being a bigger and bigger business. It started going and bringing more people in, more money, more technology, that kind of stuff. We still sat there in the backyard. By the time we got ready to do something about it, we were so far behind on our money and our engineering and all that stuff it’s just taken us a little time to get going.

I’d rather be called King than other things I’ve been called.

Two Sundays don’t make a season. But if we keep it together, we are going to win a whole bunch of races this year.

The good Lord doesn’t tell you what His plan is, so all you can do is get up in the morning and see what happens next.

I quit driving, I’m not retired.

“Success in life is knowing the difference between ham and eggs; the chicken’s involved, the pig is committed.”

Man, I have had so much plastic surgery, I don’t even recognize myself, sometimes. If I catch a glimpse in a window or something, I think it is someone else.

If you keep running, you’ll get something.

I’m not going to have a baby until I’m around 30-something.

I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I’m drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity.

I don’t want to be a babe. I don’t want vanity to ever get in the way, because I think to maintain that, you have to be aware of yourself all the time, and that gets in the way of acting. My job’s not to be the beautiful person. My job is to be the best actor I can be.

I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.

When I was a kid, I’d be there in the stands thinking: ‘Come on Wolves, do it for me!’….And here I am again: ‘Come on Wolves,’ pleading with a borrowed laptop!

People don’t have to like or support you, so you always have to say thank you.

I think, really, what it was was that I was raised in a very gray Britain in the 1950s. We were pummeled during the war. A lot of our cities were wrecked and smashed up and as we came out of that, we were baby boomers there; we didn’t have the candy apple red; we didn’t have the big chrome decals; we didn’t have Elvis. So what we did, we came out ferocious. We came out kicking and spitting and it was a reaction to the gray and depletion of our islands….

I am constantly amazed by Tina Fey. And I am Tina Fey.

This is my idea of heaven, coming home and watching the news.

Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party.

I’ve just got to get that album out. I have to get it out, if it’s the last thing I do.

According to current Florida law you can get a gun, follow an unarmed minor, call the police, have them explicitly tell you to stop following [the minor] and choose to ignore that, keep following the minor, get into a confrontation with them, and if at any point during that process you get scared you can shoot the minor to death, and the state of Florida will say, ‘Well, look: you did what you could.’

Boys love being bossed around by me tho…