Shearer Quotes

It's only when we are authentic to who we are that we are going to be truly happy. It's so important that we follow what our own heart is telling us, what our own intuition is telling us, what our passion is, where our heart wants to go. When we can truly explore who we are, that's when the world just explodes with possibilities. ~ Caroline A. Shearer

Nobody makes a movie thinking it's still going to be watched and talked about and quoted 20 years later. ~ Harry Shearer

I made no secret of the fact I'd love to stay in football and to do that, you need badges. I'm starting them and that's the next step for me - to continue this next season. ~ Alan Shearer

Satire is an art best practiced behind the back of the intended target. I think inviting politicians on a satirical show becomes a very big trap. Because one of two things happen: Either you have to kind of unsharpen your fangs because you can't be quite as cruel to people to their face as you are behind their backs ... Or you don't defang, and those guests get the word and they stop coming. ~ Harry Shearer

Nothing's black or white in our country - you're either brilliant or you're hopeless ~ Alan Shearer

I'm lucky and I appreciate that. I love every minute of every day. ~ Alan Shearer

I have had interviews and got close to taking a managerial job. I would consider going back into football. ~ Alan Shearer

Harry [Shearer] and I had an idea to do a movie about rock 'n' roll from the roadies' perspective, from backstage. Then Meat Loaf came out with a movie called Roadie and we thought, "Oh, we can't do that now." So we kind of discarded the idea. ~ Rob Reiner

All that time hanging around the sets, watching Norma Shearer make the most of her three expressions, was a help. ~ Joan Crawford

Here's a guy [Richard Nixon] who had no gift for small talk, never liked to be around strangers, was physically awkward, and he goes into the one business that calls for ease with strangers and a gift for small talk. ~ Harry Shearer

There was a big possibility that I would have had to leave Newcastle had Ruud Gullit stayed as manager. ~ Alan Shearer

I've got an odd, negative bond with C. Montgomery Burns. He reminds a lot of people of bosses they've worked for. He certainly reminds me of someone I'm working for ~ Harry Shearer

I've got a great life that I really enjoy. But there is something chewing at me inside: that adrenaline rush from football, I miss that. ~ Alan Shearer

There is no need to worry about whether you are capable of manifesting what you want. The truth is, the universe already is providing you exactly what you have asked. ~ Caroline A. Shearer

Democrats always like to brag that their guys are smarter than the opponents and Republicans always like to brag that their guys are more moral than the opponents. But if you're looking for morals in politics you're looking for bananas in the cheese department. ~ Harry Shearer

I always practise penalties, but what people don't understand is that you can never recreate that pressure situation that you're under. ~ Alan Shearer

I acknowledge that abundance is not something outside of myself that I am bringing in, but rather something within myself that I am allowing out. ~ Caroline A. Shearer

Nixon's genius was that he was able to portray himself as the toughest of the anti-communists, and yet run on a platform that he had a plan to end the Vietnam War. And, of course, his plan was to prolong it until his second election - but he didn't tell us that then. ~ Harry Shearer

Never let them see you in public after you've turned thirty-five. You're finished if you do! ~ Norma Shearer

If people don't like my style, then I can't do anything about that. I have been like that since I first entered into the game and it hasn't done me bad in the past, so I am not going to change now. ~ Alan Shearer

It doesn't matter that I didn't win a trophy because I did it my way and I lived the dream. ~ Alan Shearer

It is impossible to get anything made or accomplished without stepping on some toes; enemies are inevitable when one is a doer. ~ Norma Shearer

Somehow or other I always got myself rigged up in something sensational. ~ Norma Shearer

If Nixon were a Republican senator today, he would have been primaried out. ~ Harry Shearer

When I was growing up, we learned our history almost as lives of the saints. And it came as a shock, "Oh, Jefferson had slaves?" It always comes as a shock to us that elevation to the White House didn't somehow cleanse them of all their deep character flaws. ~ Harry Shearer

Andy Carroll will cause anyone problems and I don't see a problem in that ~ Alan Shearer

For a guy who is always banging on about the masculine virtues, Nixon had this remarkable proclivity for very dainty gestures. ~ Harry Shearer

One accusation you can't throw at me is that I've always done my best. ~ Alan Shearer

When I was a young boy I wanted to play for Newcastle United, I wanted to wear the number nine shirt and I wanted to score goals at St James' Park. I've lived my dream and I realise how lucky I've been to have done that. ~ Alan Shearer

But that's always the way, isn't it? It's easy to be sensible for other people, but you can't always be sensible for yourself. ~ Alex Shearer

The act of getting married, stripped of the necessity to have a secure setting to raise children, seems to me no less grim than registering your emotions with the government. ~ Harry Shearer

In my childhood there was every year at my old home, Roxborough, or, as it is called in Irish, Cregroostha, a great sheep-shearing that lasted many days. On the last evening there was always a dance for the shearers and their helpers, and two pipers used to sit on chairs placed on a corn-bin to make music for the dance. ~ Lady Gregory

Shearer could be at 100 per cent fitness, but not peak fitness. ~ Graham Taylor

I wasn't playing Nixon's satirical stick figure. I was playing Nixon the man. As an actor, I felt I had to get to the deeply flawed humanity of the guy. ~ Harry Shearer

We're very pleased to be on a show which is known and loved around the world. ~ Harry Shearer

I would come back to public school for usually about half the year. It was actually better for me to be out of school a lot, because I was two years younger than everybody, which is a bad situation, socially. ~ Harry Shearer

Time can do all sorts of things. It's almost like a magician. It can turn autumn into spring and babies into children, seeds into flowers and tadpoles into frogs, caterpillars into cocoons, and cocoons into butterflies. And life into death. There's nothing that time can't do. Except run backwards. That's its trouble really, it can only go one way. ~ Alex Shearer

I would play in any number shirt for Newcastle United, but the No 9 at Newcastle is something very special and I've always wanted to wear it. I mentioned it to the manager, he mentioned it to Les and Les has been very kind and given it to me. ~ Alan Shearer

There was a saying around MGM: "Norma Shearer got the productions, Greta Garbo supplied the art, and Joan Crawford made the money to pay for both". ~ Joan Crawford

First is first. That's the way I was brought up. Second or third are nowhere. ~ Alan Shearer

You can get an awful lot of effects into the customer's mind for a great deal less time and money in radio than you can in television. ~ Harry Shearer

My motto in life is 'if you give 100 per cent then no one can ask any more'. ~ Alan Shearer

I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin. ~ Norma Shearer

I like the tag of being the world's most expensive player. It's an honour and a privilege. ~ Alan Shearer

If you take the money away, a lot of the footballers would still be playing football. So, the money has nothing to do with it. ~ Alan Shearer

Every 'problem' we face is only a problem because of the way our mind (ego) perceives it. It is, in fact, not a problem at all but rather a lesson we are providing to ourselves in order to evolve. ~ Caroline A. Shearer

I went to graduate school at Harvard for one year I worked in the state legislature in Sacramento for one year. I taught school in Compton for two years. ~ Harry Shearer

When we talk about our problems, we create more of them. When we talk about solutions and positive responses, we create more solutions and positive responses. ~ Caroline A. Shearer

In the year and a half I was on SNL, I never saw anybody ad lib anything. For a very good reason - the director cut according to the script. So, if you ad libbed, you'd be off mike and off camera. ~ Harry Shearer

As a kid I always wanted to be a centre-forward. I wanted the buzz and thrill of scoring goals from an early age. ~ Alan Shearer

Somewhere along the line you've got to do your apprenticeship. But I'd want half a chance of being successful at it. ~ Alan Shearer

I always dreamed about scoring at St. James' Park. I fancied my chances and the ball flew into the net. I was ecstatic. ~ Alan Shearer

The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man. ~ Norma Shearer

That was Embassy Pictures, they went bankrupt shortly after This is Spinal Tap came out. ~ Harry Shearer

When Prince Napoleon, the cousin of Napoleon Bonaparte III, visited Washington in early August, Mary organized an elaborate dinner party. She found the task of entertaining much simpler than it had been in Springfield days. "We only have to give our orders for the dinner, and dress in proper season," she wrote her friend Hannah Shearer. Having learned French when she was young, she conversed easily with the prince. It was a "beautiful dinner," Lizzie Grimsley recalled, "beautifully served, gay conversation in which the French tongue predominated." Two days later, her interest in French literature apparently renewed, Mary requested Volume 9 of the Oeuvres de Victor Hugo from the Library of Congress. ~ Doris Kearns Goodwin

I think Nixon says a lot about those times. It was possibly hard, in the '90s and early 2000s to understand the grip of fear that communism had on the country in the 1950s and 1960s - a fear Nixon rode like a endless great wave on the Pacific to high office. I'm sure, though there's no evidence of it, one of the things that rankled him down deep was that it was called McCarthyism and not Nixonism. ~ Harry Shearer

This is the better one. It's identical. ~ Alan Shearer

[The word class has] been excised from the acceptable political vocabulary, except in the limited usage of right-wingers when they accuse liberals of inciting 'class warfare' - a charge that means it's okay for rich people to vote their economic interests but it's not all right to encourage poor people to do so. ~ Harry Shearer

Basically, a manager is a father figure to 20 or 25 blokes. It's about trying to get the best out of them and creating team spirit. ~ Alan Shearer

Sometimes going in for a hard tackle generates a louder cheer than a great pass. ~ Alan Shearer

Bush is a frat boy in the White House but we've had that before. But I wasn't one of those people that was threatening to leave the country. By the way none of those people have left the country. Alec Baldwin is still here. ~ Harry Shearer

Privilege has its own way of seeing the world. ~ Harry Shearer

For me, Paul Scholes has been the best midfield player in the Premier League. By a mile. He has the lot. He scores and creates goals, he can pass the ball, he can head it, and rounds all this off with a competitive streak. ~ Alan Shearer

The theater business is very much about "Hey, if you want our big blockbuster at Christmas time, you'll play our piece of crap in April." ~ Harry Shearer

I've turned down Barcelona, Inter Milan, Juventus and Manchester United to play here. I hope everyone already knows how much it means to me to play for Newcastle United. ~ Alan Shearer

It does not bother me that some say I'm dull and boring because the people that do know me will tell you a different story. It is very difficult to be open with people you don't know. There is nothing I can do about the fact that the real me does not get across and it is probably difficult to know the real me. ~ Alan Shearer

[C. Montgomery] Burns is much purer evil than Nixon was. I think it's the purity of his evil that attracts me as a comic character. ~ Harry Shearer

I have a very strong visual memory of the first time I made him laugh. That was remarkable. I was like, "Oh, God, I just made Jack Benny laugh." ~ Harry Shearer

The hardest work most of us do is maintaining the appearance of normality. ~ Harry Shearer

You only get one chance of an England debut. ~ Alan Shearer

I was a Political Science major. ~ Harry Shearer

I always used to sit next to Mel Blanc when we'd do the shows. When you have Jack Benny on one side and Mel Blanc on the other, you're not going to go far wrong. ~ Harry Shearer

You never get fed up scoring goals ~ Alan Shearer

I spend time with my family. I have got two daughters who are too young to know their Dad's a footballer. They just want to play with their Dad. I like to play golf, too, but apart from that, that's me, I'm afraid. ~ Alan Shearer

I still get butterflies when England are playing. ~ Alan Shearer

Newcastle fans never cease to amaze me. If there was a trophy for best supporters this lot would win it hands down every year. ~ Alan Shearer

My father was a sheep shearer, so I grew up in a caravan; we'd go around from shearing shed to shearing shed. My mother always wanted us to be educated, so I went to a school. ~ Jason Clarke

If you want to have a great party at Wembley, don't invite the Germans. ~ Alan Shearer

My parents didn't want me to be a regular in a series. I was a working actor from time to time but they thought was a little too much being a star of a series. They wanted me to have a slightly more normal childhood. ~ Harry Shearer

I couldn't help but be struck that this guy I had thought was the embodiment of everything wrong with American politics, a lot of his domestic policy was mind-numbingly, head-spinningly to the left of Obama's. It was under Nixon that the EPA was created. It was under Nixon that OSHA was created. Under Nixon that the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts were passed. ~ Harry Shearer

Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy. ~ Norma Shearer

Sometimes, songs spill out of you very fast, and sometimes you have to wrangle them to the floor. But the same thing is true of comedy, where sometimes it really flows. ~ Harry Shearer

I think the British learn their history through the prism of this gallery of grotesques known as the royals. ~ Harry Shearer

We can begin to achieve higher frequencies by recognizing the pattern of "like attracts like." More than just a saying, this is an energetic law. Frequencies are attracted to similar frequencies. We resonate at a higher frequency when we raise our vibration, and, therefore, attract higher-level experiences. ~ Caroline A. Shearer

Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the wrong. Sometime in life you will have been all of these. ~ Lloyd Shearer

You're not just looking for laughs, but you're trying to do the characters first, and then the laughs come afterwards. ~ Harry Shearer

I have never wanted to go abroad before but you can never say never in football. ~ Alan Shearer

A movie script more than anything else is a plan of action for the crew. Everybody in the crew looks at the script to see what they're going to do. It has to contain where you are, and how many people are there, and what they do, and what time of day it is, and what time of year it is. ~ Harry Shearer

I'd like to play for Newcastle United before I retire. The club is in my blood. ~ Alan Shearer

We are called to love - it is our home. ~ Caroline A. Shearer

I want to be around when Newcastle win a trophy because I want to see this place lift off. It will be one hell of a party for a long time. ~ Alan Shearer

I always chose sophisticated parts because you can't really be interesting as a young girl or outstanding as an ingenue. ~ Norma Shearer

I miss walking out of the tunnel, the 90 minutes and the adrenalin rush that I'll never, ever replace. ~ Alan Shearer

When it moved to Friday night it disappeared, when they find another show that can do what The Simpsons does, they will be delighted to do cancel The Simpsons. ~ Harry Shearer

Music often happens even faster than comedy in terms of the creation. ~ Harry Shearer

Alan Shearer has done very well for us, considering his age. We have introduced some movement into his game because he has got two good legs now. Last season he played with one leg. ~ Bobby Robson

The first thing you've got to do is know your craft, and then you can do something else with it. ~ Harry Shearer

There's no way the future's over for Martin Keown, Tony Adams or David Seaman. ~ Alan Shearer

To do then now would be retro. To do then then was very now-tro, if you will. ~ Harry Shearer

When I go home every night, I can look in the mirror and say I have given 110 per cent for Newcastle United. If people aren't happy with that, I can't give any more. ~ Alan Shearer