Thicke Quotes & Sayings

I'm trying to create the world around myself to be a place of as much equality and openheartedness as possible. — Robin Thicke

I went from people just thinking I was, like, a baby to people thinking I'm this, like, sex freak that really just pops molly and does lines all day. It's like, 'Has anyone ever heard of rock 'n' roll?' There's a sex scene in pretty much every single movie, and they go, 'Well, that's a character.' Well, that's a character. I don't really dress as a teddy bear and, like, twerk on Robin Thicke, you know? — Miley Cyrus

We look for opportunities to play together including basketball, tennis, swimming, riding bikes and touch football. I try to provide a loving environment where we can play. I think that's good on so many levels - emotionally, for family interactions and, of course, physically. — Alan Thicke

All the guys in the locker room will give me a hard time and call me Robin Thicke or call me Justin Bieber. — Chandler Parsons

I worked for [Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame inductee] Tommy Hunter. It was a wonderful training program at the CBC, because they made sure they never paid you very much, so you had to do a lot of things, and that way you made some money. [A phone rings.] That's my agent right now telling me I've got a 13 cent residual from Tommy Hunter in 1969. — Alan Thicke

While other kids played with cars and toys, I listened to music all day. I wanted to sing it and learn it. — Robin Thicke

Right now, with terrorism and poverty and Wall Street and Social Security having problems, nudity should not be the issue. — Robin Thicke

I've always felt that improv looks and feels more clever when you're there to experience it live than when you have the degree of separation that television creates. Television raises expectations. — Alan Thicke

So we had psychiatrists and counselors and therapists around the set regularly, especially for those scenes in which Jason would be dealing with a patient to make sure we were doing it all appropriately. — Alan Thicke

No one is talking about the man behind the ass. It was a lot of 'Miley twerks on Robin Thicke,' but never, 'Robin Thicke grinds up on Miley.' They're only talking about the one that bent over. So, obviously there's a double standard. — Miley Cyrus

I hate not giving the people what they want. — Robin Thicke

The key to writing for Richard (Pryor) was to just push his buttons and then know when to push the buttons on your cassette recorder. You'd get him started, then surreptitiously start recording when he got inspired and started walking around the room and improvising in character. Then you'd get it all transcribed and take credit for it. — Alan Thicke

I'm a big proponent of having a mental health component go along with whatever the physical realities are. — Alan Thicke

There are psychological repercussions to illness and we need a little more help to get through the effects not only on the afflicted but on the family. And I think there's even a place for humor in that. — Alan Thicke

I've been influenced heavily by great soul artists. I see myself as a soul singer. I sing from my soul - I write from my soul. — Robin Thicke

Being critical is not something I like to do. I like to appreciate and inspire. — Robin Thicke

Bob Dylan and John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen, these are soul guys. Bruce Springsteen might not sing like Otis Redding, but he sings with white soul. He's singing and he's writing songs from the bottom of his gut. — Robin Thicke

Like with acting, if you're charming or just good-looking, you might be able to get your foot in the door. But a lot of time with music, you actually have to kinda be able to sing. — Robin Thicke

Family involvement is a valuable thing and playing together actively can be the '90s version of it. Instead of just watching, you can do it together ... something we don't spend enough time on. We can motivate and excite each other about fitness. — Alan Thicke

So there was a constant flow and a thin line there between reality and television and yes, much of what I was experiencing in my real life was also what was going on in the television show to the extent that I had to take writers' advice and from the counselors around. — Alan Thicke

I love 'Game of Thrones.' — Robin Thicke

I think of Alan Thicke as Perry Como without the excitement. — Gilbert Gottfried

There is nothing normal about a musician's lifestyle; I don't have a nine-to-five job at the post office. — Robin Thicke

I'll be on my third honeymoon, so I'm more of an authority than I care to be. — Alan Thicke

You have to give love to get love. — Robin Thicke

If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling. — Alan Thicke

My two boys were the same ages as the kids in the show. In real life or in between the breaks I was raising two kids off camera who were not unlike the two kids who were being paid to be my kids. — Alan Thicke

I really try to wake up with my music the same as I do with my life, and that is with no expectations. I just feel what I feel that day and follow it. — Robin Thicke

Life is full of constant ups and downs, and all I ask for is redemption in the end. — Robin Thicke

My songs don't play on pop radio; they play on black radio. — Robin Thicke

I'm going to go with ZZ Top
they're my faves ... because of the whole thing that they do with the guitars and the old Father Time beards. — Robin Thicke

I don't like labels, but I do have blue eyes and I'm soulful, so what am I going to do? — Robin Thicke

Inspiration and stealing are two completely different things. If somebody wants to make a song like "Stairway to Heaven" and writes a song on acoustic guitar, Led Zeppelin does not own every song that's on acoustic guitar for the rest of time. — Robin Thicke

I'm not able to go in with an act that I use month to month year to year all the time. It's constantly evolving and changing and that keeps me on my toes but certainly adds to the challenge. — Alan Thicke

I never used to tell jokes on stage. Now I'm cutting up jokes all night long. — Robin Thicke

I've always had a propensity for getting the cursive down pretty well. What it evolved into was my pseudo-waitressing job when I was auditioning. I didn't wait tables. I did calligraphy for the invitations for, like, Robin Thicke and Paula Patton's wedding. — Meghan Markle

I took whatever the devil offered me. — Robin Thicke

Women and their bodies are beautiful. Men are always gonna want to follow them around. — Robin Thicke

Growing up, I loved Bill Cosby. — Robin Thicke

Fitness needs to be perceived as fun and games or we subconsciously avoid it. — Alan Thicke

I grew up in a Hollywood family with money, so money is not the reason I make music. I'm as Hollywood as it gets. Not internally but externally - that's my bloodline. — Robin Thicke

My priority is to turn people - especially kids - on to sports and being active so they don't even have to think about it being good for their health. If people participate for the fun of it, and believe me - it is fun, then fitness programs will be much more successful. — Alan Thicke

Entertain the people. Give them something they're not ready for, make them talk. — Robin Thicke

About 100 things that your kid will do that will surprise you and break your heart and it will be a combination of fact based therapy, medically advised kinds of passages accompanied by celebrity anecdotes and just some funny stuff to lighten the load. — Alan Thicke

On a selfish basis, I really enjoy sports and activity. — Alan Thicke

I just want to say that dreams do come true. Don't ever give up on your dreams. Sometimes it just takes a little bit longer for some of us. — Robin Thicke

I wouldn't call myself a standup in the presence of Jerry Seinfeld or Chris Rock, but I do my share of it and it has been and remains part of my activity and I like it. — Alan Thicke

As a father, my first priority is to help my sons set and attain personal goals so they will develop self-confidence and individual strength. Engaging in regular fitness activities with my children helps me fulfill those responsibilities. — Alan Thicke

If a director can find the exact combination between the written word as a guideline and improvisational input from his actors, I think that's where you'll find the most successful work being done. — Alan Thicke

It's always been said that comedy comes mostly out of the dark side anyway. — Alan Thicke

And introduce an element of cynicism and darkness into it and just realize that we're all vulnerable. We are humans. There is a finite end to this life and we're all going to face it and a little silliness can help. — Alan Thicke

Some people go to college. For me I studied music my whole life. That was my college. — Robin Thicke

I was seven years old the first time I saw Michael Jackson. That changed everything. — Robin Thicke

To be a part of your biggest days - you know, your child being conceived or born, or you walking down the aisle - there's really nothing sweeter. That's the truth. — Robin Thicke

I've never been a big fan of improvisation, because I think you appreciate the process and the cleverness of it more than the actual comedy in most cases. — Alan Thicke

I spent my whole career playing it safe, being a gentleman, never doing anything controversial. — Robin Thicke

When I wrote for Jordan Knight, I was 17 or 18, they were pretty much the only songs I was writing. By the time people like Christina or Usher came around, I was able to know that I was writing for different points of view and people that might not want to say certain things. So you have to be considerate of whichever artist you're writing for. — Robin Thicke

There's an audience for all kinds of great art. — Robin Thicke

I'd like to collaborate with Jay-Z and Mary J. Blige. — Robin Thicke

If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well. — Alan Thicke