Top 25 John Schneider Quotes

Some people treat seeing me as if they just won a car on ‘The Price is Right.’ The feet get going, and the hands start flapping, and it’s really quite amazing. It’s a little scary: you can’t have more than two or three of them at the same time because someone might get hurt. But it’s great fun.

I don’t know that Donald Trump really cares about what the outcome is, as long as he‘s in charge of it. Seeing whom he can steer in which direction and how far he can push them.

When a script like ‘Hardflip’ comes along, with a real depiction of the rewards of a father-son relationship but also the difficulties of building one, you have my attention.

Some people thrive on creating chaos and then operating through it, though usually that’s presented as a female trait.

At the core, I’m a filmmaker and a storyteller.

You can tell if someone is about social intercourse or just about browbeating somebody with their opinion. It’s no fun arguing with a closed-minded person.

I’m actually from Mt. Kisco, New York, which is in Westchester County, and when I auditioned for ‘Dukes,’ I told them I was from Snailville, Georgia, which doesn’t exist, and I’d just graduated first in my class from the Georgia School of High Performance Driving, which also doesn’t exist. But they bought it.

I’m a good dad and a fair husband and I work quite a bit. That takes up a fair amount of time.

I had a working mother. She worked for IBM. My dad lived in another town – not very far away, but another town. So food was – I guess food was my friend.

You can make a really good film for under a million dollars, like ‘October Baby,’ or under a half million, like ‘Hardflip.’

I believe you should be a gentleman, and that’s old-fashioned.

Here I am sitting in the back of a cab with Catherine Zeta-Jones who is telling me Michael Douglas has fond memories of me – it just makes me feel good as a human being.

It seems like people are more likely to tell you you’ve gotten too thin than to tell you you’ve gotten too fat.

I weighed 245 pounds when I was 16 years old. I had a 44-inch waist. And that was two years before ‘Dukes of Hazzard’ started.

In ‘Hardflip,’ you have a relationship where the father and son haven‘t seen each other in 18 years, but they find they’re very alike: pigheaded, stubborn, passionate. It’s a wonderful story of how you can’t get away from how similar you and your children are.

If it’s tough believing what you believe, then maybe it’s time to move. But if you are someone who militantly enforces your opinion about anything, then you need to get out of town.

Friends don’t let friends jump cars.

I’m from New York, I’m 53, I have my moments when I’m a nice guy, and more frequently I have my moments where I’m a middle-aged aggravated person. For years I was always the nice guy, so in life I had to pretend to be the nice guy.

I know that if I concentrate on making other people shine, I will shine. It is really about the other person, never about you.

Passion is different than desire. People that are successful recognize passion. You have to be willing to work at it. I love the image of pushing a boulder uphill – it will flourish you.

The normal storyline of a horror film or a slasher film is the young, beautiful college folks go camping and get systematically killed by the person in a mask. So that’s how it normally is.

I believe that even the worst people on the planet believe that they are somehow justified in their neurosis.

A financial shift happened with ‘Facing the Giants‘ and ‘Fireproof,’ where movies that were faith-based films were profitable. And people in Hollywood – like people in downtown U.S.A. – are out to make money.

I’m a good dad and a fair husband, and I work quite a bit.

Shows have a tendency to end when they’re over. ‘The Dukes of Hazzard’ has not ended for the fans, and it has not ended for the cast or the crew, and I’m very proud to be a part of that.