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All Quotes by author - Willie Aames

" 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. "

" Being stubborn can be a good thing. Being stubborn can be a bad thing. It just depends on how you use it. "

" Cruise director is - I always laugh and say, 'He's the ship's liver,' because almost everything you can think of filters through you at some point. "

" Everything can change. You can always have hope. "

" 'Give up... it's time to quit,' I don't think I've ever really accepted those kinds of words in my life or vocabulary. "

" God continues to work miracles in my life. "

" 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. "

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

" I always felt as though, 'If nothing else, I have a successful marriage.' "

" I didn't become an actor because I wanted to act. Actually, I wanted to become a marine biologist. But most of all, I wanted to be accepted. "

" 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. "

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

" If there's comfort involved, it's probably not for me. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I have a strong work ethic. "

" I lived to make Scott Baio laugh. "

" I'm cleaning toilets for $30 a day, because I needed that $30, and people are pointing at me, saying, Look at the big movie star. Look where he is now. I just said, I'm where God put me. "

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

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

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

" I never thought of myself as handsome. "

" I realized there was very little in Hollywood I would ever feel comfortable doing. If I kept one foot there and one foot in my Christianity, I would never grow. "

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

" 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 started running away when I was five years old. It wasn't until I was an adult that I realized what I really wanted was somebody to come after me when I was running away. "

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

" 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. "

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