Willie Aames Quotes

I spent six years in Bible study because I needed to get grounded. People really need to spend time in the Bible getting to know the God they claim to love.

I lived to make Scott Baio laugh.

When you go through a traumatic event, there's a lot of shame that comes with that. A lot of loss of self-esteem. That can become debilitating.

I got married at a very young age, and of course, for all the wrong reasons, and ended up divorced and lost everything. It was a very difficult time in my life.

When somebody comes to your front door, and they're screaming obscenities at you and telling you to come outside, and you've had your life threatened several times, you take it pretty seriously. It's the reason I have a Rottweiler.

When you're a celebrity, people think they know you, but they don't have a clue.

We're seeing how the videos translate to the live shows and how the technology is really reaching kids.

I never learned to study in studio school, so I had to teach myself to study.

I've watched a lot of my friends die, everyone from John Belushi, River Phoenix to Chris Farley. It just keeps going on and on.

They did interviews with my wife and daughter-they were genuinely in fear of me having a heart attack, working 20 hours a day, eating fast food.

When you're in that scene, you really wonder if this is all you're ever going to be. You know how vile and filthy you are inside.

God continues to work miracles in my life.

I didn't want to be the typical teen idol. I didn't want to be Leif Garrett. I didn't want to be Shaun Cassidy, David Cassidy or Parker Stevenson. I wanted to do my own thing.

God gives me the children's ministry heart and patience. This is what He wants. It's awesome. I don't know where He's gonna take it - but God is building this thing.

I never dreamed I would want to be or become a financial advisor.

I think that in the Christian community, we're lacking a lot of things, and I don't know that it's just children's role models.

There's a tendency for people to think that celebrities do whatever they want, spend whatever they want, and it's completely out of control. While some of that may be true, I've never met a celebrity who threw caution to the wind and thought they could do anything. That's not the thought process.

I never thought of myself as handsome.

I remember thinking, That's what I need - and that hope was in Jesus Christ.

You get to a point where you have one of two choices. You either put a gun to your head or you pray.

Nobody makes me laugh like my wife.

This is an exact replica of my chest.

This is not what I would have chosen. But I have a heart to be obedient.

I had never really pictured myself working in children's ministries. I always figured I would be more comfortable with maybe teens or adult ministries.

Being a teen idol or being a heartthrob on all the magazines, with Shaun Cassidy, Leif Garrett, and Scott Baio - it was embarrassing! I never understood it. I mean, why me? I never really got it.

I suppose what's unique about our presentation is the amount of Scripture that kids get.

If I'm going to follow a god, why would I want to follow a god of my creation? That would be an alcoholic idiot nitwit jerk god!

Hollywood has always been good to me. I've never blamed Hollywood for my problems.

I had older brothers and sisters who were high achievers, and I felt different, misunderstood by my family. That's not my family's fault; it was my perception.

Pray for your mate. Ask God to soften your heart and show you ways to be a better spouse.

I wanted to leave 'Eight Is Enough' for the Navy.

I never thought I was particularly talented, and to be honest with you, I still don't.

There is no other person on the face of this planet that I would rather sit and talk to than my wife.

We've both been married before and our previous experiences made us fearful of commitment.

I tell kids that people will let them down and people will hurt them. But Jesus Christ will never let them down and never hurt them.

I think there are people that have very addictive personalities.

I had a lot of growing and a lot of denying of self to do. I am not easily won over, but when I am, I am completely won over.

I get scared to death when I see people who say they've found Jesus Christ, and they're out there, and I wonder, who's teaching them? Who's mentoring them?

This show has been a major revitalization of my family life and personal life. It gave my family an avenue to speak to me honestly.

My wife bought an extra life insurance policy on me.

I've always been pretty tough in that way, where if you tell me I can't do something, I will prove you wrong.

It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you.

Since I was 9, I'd been told what to say, what to think.

I don't think you need to go looking for the enemy. He's going to look for you.

I think as Christians we have to sponsor a national Lighten-Up Day.

The Jews know who they are as a people. The Christians have not come together as a people yet.

I want kids to understand that strength doesn't come from what goes on around you. It comes from inside you, and that comes from Jesus Christ.