Jack Black famous quotes

I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can take me to the highest heights, it's almost like a spiritual feeling. It fills that void for me.
-- Jack Black

#Spiritual #Atheist #Real

Every movie presents its challenges.
-- Jack Black

#Challenges

Funny songs, that’s my ticket. I can’t remember when it started or why it started, it’s just something that I NEEDED.
-- Jack Black

#Song #Tickets #Remember

I don't really think differently of making a movie for grownups or making a movie for kids, if it's boring it's boring, so you want it to be entertaining and I think funny is funny whether it's for kids or grownups, the only real difference is language.
-- Jack Black

#Real #Kids #Thinking

The greatest gift in life is the ability to think great thoughts and have the strength to take action so that those thoughts become reality in this wonderful and abundant world.
-- Jack Black

#Thinking #Reality #World

It's a mistake to just go make a movie where the whole thing is talking down to the kids like, "Ok, we gotta bring the IQ of this movie down because it's a kids movie" You don't have to do that, kids can laugh and parents can laugh at different parts and that's fun, and you see that with all of the great kids movies.
-- Jack Black

#Fun #Mistake #Kids

You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.
-- Jack Black

#Funny #Eyebrows #Underestimate

When you get to a certain level of recognizability, celebrity, you can't go out of the house without someone going, "Can I just have one photo?" I don't mind, by the way, if anyone wants one we can take some photos. But sometimes you just wanna stay in the house or in the hotel room with the shades closed.
-- Jack Black

#House #Mind #Levels

I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. Now my music has to have some rock.
-- Jack Black

#Rocks #Years #Piano

I really wanted people to pay attention to me and like me. And the class clown thing, you know? There's a weird desperation to the class clown when you really investigate it. Why are they trying to be the clown so much? They're filling some kind of hole.
-- Jack Black

#Class #People #Trying

I'm fairly certain that YOLO is just Carpe Diem for stupid people.
-- Jack Black

#Stupid #Carpe Diem #People

I remember I prayed to God. I was like, "Just let me be on TV." Let my friends see me on TV in a good thing. I like, if I'm funny a little bit on a commercial and then I don't need to act ever again. "Just let them see me." And then it worked. I got the commercial. I was on TV. My friends all saw me. I was a kind of a star at school for like three days. And then it faded away and I was hungry and I had to like make another deal with God. I remember it still.
-- Jack Black

#Stars #School #Three

When I was a kid, I thought I was the strongest man in the world. Then, the fastest runner and then the smartest person in the world. One by one my delusions got shut down. Now I just see myself as the lamest guy in the world.
-- Jack Black

#Kids #Men #Guy

You only have to go hardcore humiliation on the first film. On the subsequent sequels, you can coast.
-- Jack Black

#Firsts #Film #Hardcore

I recommend that everyone in their youth be as out of shape as possible so that when you turn 40, people can go, "Wow, you look much better now."
-- Jack Black

#People #Looks #Shapes

I like being married. I'm at home with my wife and kids all the time now. I don't go out for wild nights.
-- Jack Black

#Home #Kids #Night

A long life or a short life are of equal importance to God.
-- Jack Black

#Death #Short Life #Long

The real challenge is if you don't look super sexy, like a Brad Pitt, you're going to have to try harder. You're going to have to make up for it in other ways.
-- Jack Black

#Sexy #Real #Challenges

I've had so many hot, cheesy, corny loves of music in my life. I had a very intense Billy Joel period. So once you've really Joeled it up - there's some good periods of Joel; it's not all hot cheese. But I can't judge anyone else for their cheese. I've deep-sea dived in the Gouda.
-- Jack Black

#Sea #Judging #Cheesy

My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever did.
-- Jack Black

#Mother #Father #School

I make a mean peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
-- Jack Black

#Mean #Peanut Butter #Jelly

I just remember the early days of Tenacious D. There was no talk or thought about doing a TV show or a movie.
-- Jack Black

#Tv Shows #Tvs #Remember

Push-ups, sit-ups, and a strict diet of raisins. That's my plan.
-- Jack Black

#Raisins #Strict #Plans

With the acting, it's somebody else's brainchild, and I'm just sort of helping flesh it out. There's a special satisfaction to being the brains behind the operation.
-- Jack Black

#Brain #Special #Acting

The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They really nailed how dumb rock can be.
-- Jack Black

#Stupid #Rocks #Dumb

There's nothing you can really do to prepare to rock. Do you prepare to eat a delicious meal? Are you hungry? Then you're gonna eat it.
-- Jack Black

#Rocks #Meals #Hungry

I'd rather be the king of kids, than the prince of fools.
-- Jack Black

#Kings #Kids #Fool

When you think about rock at its origin, and you think of the Beatles and millions of kids screaming as loud as they can and running as fast as they can towards the Beatles, there's no one who is that kind of lightning rod, who commands that kind of power and has that kind of creative magma.
-- Jack Black

#Running #Kids #Thinking

We're in the dark ages if J-Lo can have a music career because of her ass. And let's face it, that's it.
-- Jack Black

#Dark #Careers #Age

I'm an aspiring writer. I hate that phrase. You're either a writer or you're not.
-- Jack Black

#Hate #Writing #Phrases

I love Satan. Christianity is so boring. If Star Wars didn't have that evil imprint, they wouldn't sell two tickets. Satan sells tickets. That dude, Darth Maul, he was down with Satan. Put it this way, Satan loves to party, he loves to f**k and he loves to eat rich, delicious food. Actually that sounds a lot like Kyle Gass (his bandmate).
-- Jack Black

#Stars #War #Party

If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.
-- Jack Black

#Band #Made #Runners

I'd just like to be in films that I would like to see. I think of myself as an entertainment arsenal. Like I have my acting bazooka and my music machete. And you don't know what I'm going to come at you with.
-- Jack Black

#Thinking #Acting #Bazookas

There were times when I thought I got a bit more punishment than was coming to me, but I don't regret a minute of it now. Each of us must be tempered in some fire. Nobody had more to do with choosing the fire that tempered me than myself, and instead of finding fault with the fire I give thanks that I had the metal to take the temper and hold it.
-- Jack Black

#Regret #Punishment #Fire

My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
-- Jack Black

#Children #My Children #Magical Creatures

Iris, if you were a melody...piano melody. I used only the good notes.
-- Jack Black

#Music #Piano #Irises

You're not hardcore, unless you live hardcore
-- Jack Black

#Hardcore