I grew up skateboarding it was fun. I didnt think about money, I didnt know how much professional skateboarders made. I just knew that if I became a professional skateboarder, I would achieve a lot and get to travel and do these great things. – Jason Lee
When you reach a certain status in Hollywood, you have to play a lot of games to stay in the limelight. It becomes more about being famous than being an actor. – Jason Lee
I wanted to be looked at for the skateboarder that I was. I didnt want to be the 36-year-old skateboarder whos still holding on while owning a company at the same time. I wanted to make my mark and travel and accomplish a few things here and there and then get out. – Jason Lee
I wasnt a kid who moved out from Iowa with aspirations of becoming a famous star – I was intrigued by the idea of filmmaking and by the idea of what it would be like to play a character in a movie. – Jason Lee
A learned historian declared to me of a contemporary, that the latter had appropriated his researches; he might, indeed, and he had a right to refer to the same originals; but if his predecessor had opened the sources for him, gratitude is not a silent virtue. – Isaac D’Israeli, “Quotation,” A Second Series of Curiosities of Literature