Top 40 Gary Busey Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “T-E-A-M stands for together everyone achieves more.”

— Gary Busey

2. “Pray for the best, prepare for the worst, and expect the unexpected.”

— Gary Busey

3. “If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.”

— Gary Busey

4. “Have a mind that’s open to everything, get attached to nothing.”

— Gary Busey

5. “You know what ‘FEAR’ stands for? It stands for ‘False Evidence Appearing Real.’ It’s the darkroom where Satan develops his negatives.”

— Gary Busey

6. “If you put that straight jacket on me, I am going to pull your endocrine system out of your body.”

— Gary Busey

7. “You Know the Most Dangerous Thing In the Water? A Shark Fart.”

— Gary Busey

8. “I’m an angel in an earth suit.”

— Gary Busey

9. “Five parts of my brain contain alien power, whatever I do or say cannot be denied on the intergalactic highway of existence.”

— Gary Busey

10. “Amen is not the end of a prayer, it just gets us ready to go to the next level.”

— Gary Busey

11. “Acting is a trick word invented in the festival of Dionysus, before Christ, in Greece at a fertility festival. That’s where theatre came from: a fertility festival. No women were allowed. All the men played all the parts.”

— Gary Busey

12. “Nothing changes like changes, because nothing changes but the changes.”

— Gary Busey

13. “A good way to lose weight is to put salt on your ass and go to a petting zoo. But stay away from goats because I’ve seen them fornicate with a mail box.”

— Gary Busey

14. “Drinking your own blood is the paradigm of recycling.”

— Gary Busey

15. “You are a gut maggot with no guts.”

— Gary Busey

16. “Faith gives me the ability to rise above anything, because what is true in the spiritual realm is forever true. It cannot be denied.”

— Gary Busey

17. “Do you know what chaos stands for? C-H-A-O-S stands for Critical Hate And Overwhelming Stupidity.”

— Gary Busey

18. “I am proud to tell Hollywood that I am a Christian. For the first time I am now free to be myself.”

— Gary Busey

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19. “Imagination is the hood ornament on your car of creativity.”

— Gary Busey

20. “Be nice to everyone and tell jokes.”

— Gary Busey

21. “Do you even know who I am? Seriously, tell me, because I don’t.”

— Gary Busey

22. “Enemies are just friends in reverse.”

— Gary Busey

23. “You know what ‘DOUBT’ stands for? It stands for ‘Debate On Understanding Bewildersome Thoughts.’”

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24. “Time matters not when the arrival comes to the connection of connections ever more. And that, my friend, is to be FOUND.”

— Gary Busey

25. “Boy, it’s a tough planet if you want it to be. But a great planet if you let it.”

— Gary Busey

26. “I lost my athletic scholarship by injuring my right knee. That right knee kept me out of Vietnam, and I went into Drama. I put them all together with a football foundation and the house was built on Drama – and love and kindness and understanding and grace.”

— Gary Busey

27. “Relationship. R-E-L-A-T-I-O-N-S-H-I-P means this: Really exciting love affair turns into overwhelming nightmare. Sobriety hangs in peril.”

— Gary Busey

28. “I’m not jealous, and I’m not possessive, and I’m not controlling.”

— Gary Busey

29. “I love love, and I love life. I love. I just love. It’s just great. It’s the most enduring element we have is love.”

— Gary Busey

30. “Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.”

— Gary Busey

31. “Never dip lower than you can dip.”

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32. “Don’t tell me what I’m not doing when I’m doing what you don’t think I’m doing!”

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33. “I’ll tell you this: You have to remember to chase and catch your dreams, because if you don’t, your imagination will live in empty spaces, and that’s nowhere land.”

— Gary Busey

34. “When angels fly inside your heart, that’s when you can fly.”

— Gary Busey

35. “Acting is the absence of acting. It’s believing in the truth of the moment you are creating.”

— Gary Busey

36. “Theres a woman in Arkansas that’s such a bad cook, that a swarm of flies got together and repaired her screen door.”

— Gary Busey

37. “Everyone goes through their stuff when they are growing up. It’s all relative. Everyone has the same situations on their menu. We just make the choices in terms of what situations we’re going to eat.”

— Gary Busey

38. “I don’t know how I got involved in ‘Celebrity Wife Swap.’ It came from my agent Hugh. He got the opportunity for me.”

— Gary Busey

39. “Fun stands for finally understnding nothing. And that’s what’s fun about fun, you don’t have to get it.”

— Gary Busey

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40. “The most powerful thing we have is our psyche. And to use our minds, we must be clear, vulnerable and open, which will take us to places we didn’t even know were there or couldn’t imagine ourselves going.”

— Gary Busey

41. “Let me leave you with a suggestion: Go slow and let nature take you, and everything you see will be a reflection of yourself.”

— Gary Busey