F*ck It, I'll Start Tomorrow Quotes

“I love my shape, also. I want you to know that. I think I have a great shape. I mean, obviously I am three hundred fucking pounds and I’m a square. But I think I look gorgeous, like the shining light in this fucking bitter world.”
― Action Bronson, F*ck It, I'll Start Tomorrow: A True Story

“My motto is just drown them in olive oil.”
― Action Bronson, F*ck It, I'll Start Tomorrow: A True Story

“just running and doing, like, fighting moves in the air—not really hitting each other, but more like at each other, lots of weird Ninja Turtle–type kicks,”
― Action Bronson, F*ck It, I'll Start Tomorrow: A True Story

“don’t want to fucking die—I am not scared of death, but I like life.”
― Action Bronson, F*ck It, I'll Start Tomorrow: A True Story

“didn’t have the confidence. I didn’t get mouthed. I didn’t get fucked. I didn’t even ask for it. I made pasta.”
― Action Bronson, F*ck It, I'll Start Tomorrow: A True Story

“am still not 100 percent, and I need it to be at 100 percent. I almost want a backeotomy, a back transplant—I want to be part machine.”
― Action Bronson, F*ck It, I'll Start Tomorrow: A True Story

“It seems like it’s always that you wait and you wait and you wait, and you feel like nothing’s happening all at one time, and then, boom, you’re back. You just have to remember that while you’re waiting: it’s always all in your mind.”
― Action Bronson, F*ck It, I'll Start Tomorrow: A True Story

“It’s about living a fucking healthy life, period. It’s about having an alkaline body that disease can’t live in.”
― Action Bronson, F*ck It, I'll Start Tomorrow: A True Story

“then the ice cream goes directly under the running hot water. You get rid of it instantly. There can’t be any remnants of it in the garbage. If it’s just melted a little bit, I’ll drink the soup.”
― Action Bronson, F*ck It, I'll Start Tomorrow: A True Story

“I’m scraping around the sides to make a perfect shape, the shape that only I am okay with. I skim, skim, skim the top, until I get to the bottom, because then you’re not really eating the ice cream—you’re just skimming.”
― Action Bronson, F*ck It, I'll Start Tomorrow: A True Story

“I’ll walk away . . . and then come back and take it out again. The whole pint of ice cream can be gone in an instant, or it can last for days.”
― Action Bronson, F*ck It, I'll Start Tomorrow: A True Story

“know what to eat every day. I went to culinary school; I made a 100 in nutrition. My body maybe doesn’t show it, but I know what the fuck nutrition is about. I know what you need to have. I know what’s really good, what’s wholesome.”
― Action Bronson, F*ck It, I'll Start Tomorrow: A True Story

“Most of the time if you need me, I’m in the fridge area. Even today I’m actually guarding the fridge most of the time, I set up my workspace right in front of the fridge, at both my home and my studio, so that if anyone needs to fucking get to it, that person needs to see me first.”
― Action Bronson, F*ck It, I'll Start Tomorrow: A True Story

“You’re poor, you eat fucking beans and bread and broth and wild greens, and that’s it.”
― Action Bronson, F*ck It, I'll Start Tomorrow: A True Story

“My first fashion show, I went with a bandage on my head, and I sat next to a supermodel who was born in 1995, when I was already carrying a knife and wearing Timberlands. Fashion shows are Zoolander shit, I’m telling you.”
― Action Bronson, F*ck It, I'll Start Tomorrow: A True Story

“Everybody has the good mirror and the bad mirror, the one that makes you look like a can of tuna fish.”
― Action Bronson, F*ck It, I'll Start Tomorrow: A True Story

“Even as I write this, as I take a quick break to roll to the trash can in my office chair, I am not being lazy—I had to push off with my leg. Remember that: I still had to do an athletic move. I did a fast-twitch muscle movement, an explosion movement. I did. That’s what I’ve been working on, I’ve been working on my explosion movements.”
― Action Bronson, F*ck It, I'll Start Tomorrow: A True Story

“I have an artistic hand, though, I can hold the fuck out of some shit. I was born not just with a short center of gravity, but also with a superior fucking knack to draw guys with guns and with fucking army outfits on.”
― Action Bronson, F*ck It, I'll Start Tomorrow: A True Story

“I have the power of the short and stout.”
― Action Bronson, F*ck It, I'll Start Tomorrow: A True Story

“Damn, I’m at the beach. It’s ninety degrees and I’m wearing a fucking black T-shirt down to my knees in the water. What am I really doing? Take the fucking shirt off, kid. I mean, you were there while you ate all the hamburgers and french fries. You knew you were going to go to the beach.”
― Action Bronson, F*ck It, I'll Start Tomorrow: A True Story

“During the Steroid Years, I was an emotional wreck.”
― Action Bronson, F*ck It, I'll Start Tomorrow: A True Story

“They’d chill, they’d talk to one dude, do one pull-up, then leave and go about their day.”
― Action Bronson, F*ck It, I'll Start Tomorrow: A True Story

“There was some hot women there, also, some babes, but there were mainly monsters.”
― Action Bronson, F*ck It, I'll Start Tomorrow: A True Story

“It may have even traumatized some people in the room—maybe now they can only have sex in groups.”
― Action Bronson, F*ck It, I'll Start Tomorrow: A True Story

“Maybe my fashion game wasn’t totally on par at that point, but I was on fire—that was the look. I’m sure I was killing it. I was killing the game, because I was coming up with something different. You know, I was flipping the script on ’em.”
― Action Bronson, F*ck It, I'll Start Tomorrow: A True Story

“So think about that: I was definitely the athletic standout at Camp Shame.”
― Action Bronson, F*ck It, I'll Start Tomorrow: A True Story

“Anything I’ve ever gone away to, my mother had to come get me at. She wasn’t pissed, because my mother is my ride or die, and she’s also a free spirit herself. She laughs at the things I do. If I put shit on a swing, she’s laughing at”
― Action Bronson, F*ck It, I'll Start Tomorrow: A True Story

“mean, I had just been playing ball and whatever, so it was definitely bad company down there, it was bad business.”
― Action Bronson, F*ck It, I'll Start Tomorrow: A True Story

“But I never finished high school—I gave it up to go chase my dreams, which at that point was smoking weed every day.”
― Action Bronson, F*ck It, I'll Start Tomorrow: A True Story

“And I just wanted to smoke weed with my friends and have sex with my girlfriend, to be honest with you. I said, I’m done with this shit, and I fucking got on the train and left camp, and that was it both for camp and for school. I was done. I bounced.”
― Action Bronson, F*ck It, I'll Start Tomorrow: A True Story